The undesirable but most likely reality.

Actually, that’s the norm.
I’ve lost count of how many teams I thought would be terrible forever only to turn it around in one to two years.
That’s what I am saying. It only takes forever when you go full dumb dumb. And not coincidentally it’s usually when an owner, senior exec, GM, and/or HC have too much control and think they know better than what is being proven to work across the league.

It sure looks like Loomis is there.