UCLA win
Pitt win
Kansas State win
Seton Hall win
seriously, to me that's about it
UCLA for reasons of getting monkey off the back
Pitt, really not so much unexpected just a highly ranked win
K-State - at home, a high caliber program, and reallly maybe not one of the best CDM teams,
Seton Hall - probably the best win CDM ever had, in hindsight
and that's it, after 23 years, that's about it.
beating SB in 2012 was a relief really more than significant. beating Irvine in the BWCT semis in 2016 not so unexpected (other than by then we were getting conditioned to lose to Turner).
i mean, we go back - more often that not, CDM whether prep or game coaching is simply not winning big games. (SB in 2011 BWCT, SDSU, Creighton, New Mexico, K-State in Hawaii - FOUR times in 2012 no less, all games that a win would not have been a 'surprise'; the NIT Games, and a quite a few more.
we should have beat Portland with this group, ok, that's in the pasts.
now SD State, Michigan, then the Gulf Course Tourny, then USC
I mean with the expectations of this group, is it TOO MUCH, once again, to EXPECT this coach to do something SIGNIFICANT?
I don't believe in low expectations. this should not be another year we finish as about the 160th rated team, top 4 of Big West, get to the BWT semis of finals and bow out. should not defer to the 'gelling' BS people do. this is a VETERAN TEAM, with TALENT. or maybe on 2nd thought the talent simply isn't there. the Portland game was a bit sobering seeing some things that happened out there seemingly many poor characteristics of the year before
, unexpected for a coach that has a lot of returnees and talent
the expectations should be to win that GulfCoast tourney and/or win one of those against the top 30 opponents, vs. accepting a lost to a lower tier Portland team as 'well, ok'
it's so overdue for this coach, in this last year of CDM, hark back to 2011-12 and a top 75/100 program expectation, that's the background of what should happen, not 'do better than last year and hover around the average of D1' type of expectation
I mean, WBB simply shoots out the gate like a cannon ball with a 20 point win with a rag-tag almost band-aid type of roster on the fly. The comparison over the last week to our MBB coach is so CLEAR, Smitherin should be in CDM's face weekly DEMANDING EXCELLENCE on the product and communications. nothing less. not wait until Jan and sort it out. Before that Sac State game, a decision to either push CDM aside for rest of year unless he's SHOWN something DIFFERENT, should be made. not waffling and waiting and hemming and hawing about this or that. the dude needs to win and show he can be a coach (like Knipe, Tyler, Wright routinely have done), otherwise cut bait
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