It ain't over till its over. That's why they play the games. If there isn't improvement over the next 5 games then I'll toss the towel, but I think that's unlikely. There are no overpowering teams in the A10. Many see that as a bad thing. I see it as a good chance to take the title and bid. Our raw talent level is very good. The key word here is "raw." They'll figure it out.
Beat up a couple of buy teams at home and suddenly the complaints against a coach that dashed our chances of making the only tournament that matters before winter finals are stupid lol.
4DNP is disingenuous
Maybe, but if you asked anyone else outside this forum they would just say 0W-2L-3DNP which is a marginal improvement
So say that. It still makes your point.
We can split that hair however we want. The fact remains In Mike's 5 years here we've actually played one game in the tournament and we lost it and it wasn't really all that competitive.
It's not hairsplitting, it's being accurate. I'm not arguing any of the conclusions you draw, I'm just saying present a correct dataset.
I would argue that it's more accurate to say that we didn't qualify to play in 4 of 5 of Mike's seasons than it is to say we competed and lost twice and didn't qualify 3 times.
Agree. I doubt any AD would make a decision to fire a coach because the team was DQ'd due to forced outside his control. Where Mike should be judged is missing last year, and how we imploded before COVID in 2020. both situations showed an inability to adapt (Joe Giradi with his binder), which is again apparent from our offensive schemes. If we can't shoot consistently, we should be looking at more finesse and pounding the paint.
Mike should be very thankful everything got cancelled in 2020. Obviously we don’t know what would have happened but the year we got covid but we were playing like the best three pointing shooting team in the NCAA. Bones was a great player but likely we don’t win that even with his amazing play. St Bona showed in the A10 final one player can only carry you so far when they made us look silly.
No one in the conference has a chance of an at-large. Can’t blame the coach for that.
Curious question. Why is no one else can do it either a default response for so many.
