I mean, the staff is definitely working on getting there. It just takes time.
For example, imagine if we didn't have the grad transfers this year. Our entire offense would revolve around a Daivien/Jake two man game with Zay spotting up. As was the case during [Redacted] and Manning, the freshman would play too much, get dispirited by the challenge and blasted by the fans, and probably transfer. Carter Whitt would have probably driven y'all to burn your diplomas or something, Cam and Rob would be averaging 10ppg combined on like 25% FG, Matthew Marsh would probably "best case" look like those times we tried to get meaningful minutes from Ty Walker, and Lucas would look like every freshman wing that Wellman's AD tried to jam down our throats as an underrated savior and would be gone by June.
The grad transfers are key pieces to the developmental puzzle here, making it so we don't have to lean too heavily on freshmen and instill a winning culture after a generation of shit. If Mintz comes (and I think we're in a good spot here - Florida is the team to watch), then the 2022 class is suddenly filling two gigantic holes in the roster left by grad transfers - our combo-guard facilitator (ManMan) and our big men (Walton/Sy).
But, next year we already have the kind of team that you want to root for - built around Jake and Daivien with sophomore Cam, Carter, Damari, Lucas, Matthew, and Rob as supporting cast and Zach (and anybody else from 2022) waiting in the wings. If we get Judah and can convince Zay to stick around again, then Forbes will have built a fairly "organic" roster in 3 years.
But again, we're a year removed from 6-16 and two years removed from a decade of irrelevance. I'm fine with the staff turning this thing around ASAP. I honestly can't figure out why anybody isn't?