If we had Mitchell and Toussaint along with an actual basketball coach and not the career video coordinator trying to figure out how to handle being a Big XII head coach overnight I have to believe we would have fared a bit better than what we saw. The team wasn’t completely hopeless, they somehow beat Kansas so they had to have some talent, but losing a few all conference caliber players and being completely unorganized tanked any chance they had to be good.
Undoubtedly this season would have been far better had Huggins kept his crap together. But I don't think the long term prospects of the program were "blown up" by what happened. Whether replacing a retiring great like Nehlen or an underperformer like Holgorsen, the next hire is what really determines the fate of the program. But, again, whatever damage occurred to this season and whatever damage carries over into later seasons was primarily caused by Huggins himself.