Nobody is happy with a "participation trophy" just because they acknowledge this is real life college basketball and not a video game where you can just quit and start over if things don't go your way. It's not sacrificing standards to acknowledge that success is not always linear and it's a long season. Thats all.
People are reactionary in general. 4 game skid, fire everyone. 3 game win streak, everything's hunky dorey... no... more likely, things are never as good or bad as they seem. Hope they can keep the hot streak rolling and leave LA with 2 wins.