Well maybe if we made a splash hire, we could have kept Rodney Hood. To me that would have been a great center piece to attract a great young coach from a mid-major. Instead Stricklin screwed up the hire and we ended up with a guy no one had heard of before. As I said previously, UAB made a better hire then we did. Heck, South Carolina even made a better hire and they are basketball purgatory. We had a top five SEC job and hired for a 14th spot. So in fact Stricklin did blow up the basketball program.