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You're missing the point. Buzz inherited CJ and Ari. In Fall 2011, Ari was considered to be a breakout candidate and NBA prospect. They were coming off of excellent freshmen seasons (especially when we compare their freshmen seasons to Devin's and Codi's) and expectations for both were very high.
Unless you know something that the rest of us don't (and I don't think you do), then you have no idea how Ty and Ari responded to Dino. Ari had a good deal of success under Dino and I don't remember hearing anything about him outside of the excitement that he was looking like a very good young player. As for Ty, all I know is that he was advised to redshirt and chose not to. I don't remember hearing about locker room or legal shenanigans during his two seasons with Dino. Please correct me with facts I'm wrong.
You said that Dino left us with nothing. That's completely false. He left Buzz a pretty damn good collection of players in terms of upside with enough returning production that it should not have been hard to win 10 games. Buzz's failure as a coach, IMO, is embodied in the fact that he was never able to get these guys to play up to their rankings, let alone exceed it.
Well, I know Ty missed the team bus at least once during his freshman year under Dino (as in he was sitting on the steps of Collins asking people for a ride to the Joel). And, in general he was a complete asshat from practically day one.
Skip obviously had his love and his respect. I can't speak to whether or not Dino or [Redacted] did, but, in my interactions with him, I never thought "all this guy needs is a good mentor".