I'll try not to derail the recruiting thread with the list of busts in our future. The Richmond reference made me go back and look at his season at the beloved and that team in general. Its a crime we went 9-9 and finished 5th in the conference that year.
Shameless self-quote from the other thread:
when you can take the single most talented team in the B1G and one of the four most talented in the entire conference over the last 11 years and end up a bubble team who lost to a 12-20 Indiana and a 7-24 UIC, that suggests that you ought to look at other issues.
Here are those four most talented teams btw:
2008-09 Michigan State: Big Ten Champions, NCAA Runner-Up
2009-10 Michigan State: Big Ten Champions, Final Four
2010-11 Illinois: 9-9 in Big Ten, Second Round
2011-12 Ohio State: Big Ten Champions, Final Four