•tourney every year
•regularly competitive for league title
•2-3 trips to the second weekend per decade
•at least one FF appearance
•win the league multiple times
•consistently recruit either highly ranked classes or classes of guys who fit your specific style
•high level roster management- recruiting, transfer portal, NIL dealings, roster composition, etc
the thing is, if RT was an elite coach he would have done all of that by now, at other schools. i don’t care that he’s not elite. that’s not news. what i do care about is that two months ago we were barely in the top 50 of kenpom, we had our worst defense in a decade, and we had a shitty early conference run, and now we are no.21 in kenpom, our overall defense (if not our 3P defense) has improved, RT has figured out his best lineups, and that he has clearly done a good job of making in-season adjustments and has Texas on the upswing in march. that’s as much i could as of RT, and he’s done that. really nice job of addressing his teams issues mid season.