It might not be what you wanted or hoped for, but it seems increasingly likely that Kim Caldwell will remain as the head coach of the Tennessee women's basketball team.
Despite an abysmal showing throughout the regular season and then losing literally her entire roster, Caldwell somehow clung to her job in Knoxville and is currently facing an entire rebuild with the Lady Vols.
While Tennessee fans moaned and groaned their way through the regular season, complaining that Caldwell was losing the program, they held out hope for the postseason.
Then, after closing out the regular season with six straight losses, the Lady Vols lost by double-digits to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the second round (somehow eking out a bye in the first) of the SEC Tournament.
That was followed by yet another double-digit loss when Tennessee faced the NC State Wolfpack in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. With those two losses, the season was over, and Caldwell's job seemed to be on the brink of ending.
Kim Caldwell somehow surives complete upheaval
While the season was over and at least the losses on the court were finished, nobody was prepared for the mass exodus that was about to take place in Knoxville.
By the time all was said and done, every single active player on Caldwell's roster had cleared out, leaving her depth chart completely blank. Even recruits who had committed to Tennessee were asking out of their paperwork and fleeing the scene before it got any worse.
Despite all of this, when the transfer portal officially opened on Tuesday, April 7, Caldwell was still standing as the Volunteers' head coach.
Granted, this past season was just her second year leading the program, but still, she just had her entire team leave, and she fired two assistant coaches as the cherry on top.
Nonetheless, Caldwell remains in Knoxville, and she has even landed a commitment out of the transfer portal already, earning one piece of a puzzle with gaping holes.
To sum all of this up in one sentence: Tennessee fans, your patience is going to have to stretch even further as Caldwell works to rebuild her entire program, both the staff and the roster.