You know, I have given a lot of thought to this over the years and even though I wish the Zips could go a couple of rounds in the NCAAs, I am proud of what KD has accomplished with the basketball program. He inherited a program that had one MAC tournament win in its 12 year history and turned them into a perennial contender. The Zips may not have been able to parlay their MAC success into post-season success, but you know what? We haven't had teams full of no-class thugs that can embarrass our institution at any given moment, either. There is a lot of value in that. Dambrot's players, by & large, have been kids that we can all be proud of instead of a bunch of low-character ballers that we hold our nose and tolerate just because they can win basketball games.
I am pissed off that this version of the Zips has no killer instinct, but overall I can't bitch too much about Keith. We could regress to the Crawford years with the next hire. Then we would really have something to complain about.