Can we stop with the amount of people we lost? UR has essentially a whole new team from the A10 title team last year and beat temple handily. The same temple pulled away everytime we got close today. Rhoades put the expectations in place. He didn’t have to make the statements about how good this team was. But he did.With our OOC schedule we weren't going to have a signature win. Maybe if we snuck up on Michigan.
However, even if we win today our resume isnt any more damaged that it would've been with two losses. At the end of the day, to expect us to win all our games is unrealistic at best. To expect our guys to beat Memphis without Ace also unrealistic.
So where are we? Yup complaining because we lost to Temple.
We lost four of our top 6 players. We had one kid come back from injury. Our best guy by far, missed four games. When he was down last year we had the same issue and outcome.
I think we all understand what NCAA Basketball is about as many of us have been around it for 40 plus years. We remember the lean years at VCU and how tough making the Dance used to be. We get it.
However, many of us also understand that while we havent exceed expectations thus far, given where we started we have a good chance to be at or near the top in the A10 regular season and if we continue to grow we will have a good chance to get to the A10 title game.
Not many teams at our level lose NBA level players back to back years plus a ton of role players and then are better off the bat in year 3. You stated what NCAA basketball "is about". I am hoping your understand how things typically play out and typically they dont playout with a better record than we have presently given the circumstance. Talent or not.
Finally, iif you stated you elected better play and less lapse, well maybe I'd agree. But better record? Seriously, Bad resume? Nah just not great but certainly not bad. Now if we drop any of the other games we might reclassify our OOC as bad. Maybe.
A side note, you must be absolutely livid about the state of affairs in Chapel Hill.
Comparing scores is dangerous. So since Vanderbilt beat Temple we should have also? Temple is playing much better now. Speaking of UR I would be hard pressed to believe we would lose to William and Mary.Can we stop with the amount of people we lost? UR has essentially a whole new team from the A10 title team last year and beat temple handily. The same temple pulled away everytime we got close today. Rhoades put the expectations in place. He didn’t have to make the statements about how good this team was. But he did.
It's a little early to pack it in and call it a season.Thread title is interesting... I would say I have to agree. It's not like VCU ever performs well in the early season formats. Not sure why that is. Shaka, Will, and Mike all had their issues winning early and it's so important for this program.
So ya, I got exactly what I expected. They should play the freshman a lot and get ready for next year.
A coach is not going to spend all summer talking about how bad the team is.Can we stop with the amount of people we lost? UR has essentially a whole new team from the A10 title team last year and beat temple handily. The same temple pulled away everytime we got close today. Rhoades put the expectations in place. He didn’t have to make the statements about how good this team was. But he did.
Maybe not but its early. Say we won today would that have put us in the top 100? Nope. Were weren't going to win them all.We’re not a top 100 team. That really isn’t acceptable. Not for the “deepest team ever”.
Look that fair. But 8 games in and 5-3 doesnt really present any reason to "jump off the ledge". I to expect to play in the NCAA tournament I think when when you invest the type money we do in this program that is a reasonable expectation.I expect us to be in the NCAA tournament in March. I don't care how we get there, that's on MR. And I don't want to hear about how many players we lost from last year's team when the head coach states that THIS is the deepest team he has had since returning.
I'm not jumping off the ledge losing to Temple on the road but I'll say this, I'm not trying to hear any excuses...I mean..."reasons" for losing any of the next five games.