Seriously? Every pre-season prior to Bz when we saw an individual play like that, people talked about it on the boards and got excited, especially a hot and cold player like Travis. Every pre-season prior to Bz we came out of the OOC schedule usually something like 10-2, winning all the cupcakes. Every pre-season prior to Bz we talked about the resiliency of the team when it happened because frankly...Wake teams have a consistent habit of completely folding during the season under every coach I've ever seen and almost annually.
The reaction to this isn't unusual at all, other than it hasn't happened in 3 years. I'm not sure why the bar now has to be way higher.
10 years prior to buzz. Non-con record, non cupcake wins, Non-con SOS (last two years includes ACC play, couldn't find separate Non-con rank)
09-10: 10-2, @Gonzaga, Xavier, Richmond. SOS-100th
08-09: 13-0, Baylor, @Richmond, @BYU. SOS-265th
07-08: 10-3, BYU. SOS- 303rd
06-07: 9-4, (3 of 4 losses were to top 50 teams, 4th was to #125) Vanderbilt, @Bucknell. SOS-264th.
05-06: 11-2, Wisconsin, Texas Tech. SOS- 250th
04-05: 12-1, Texas, @ New Mexico, @ Temple, Arizona, GW, VCU. SOS-83rd
03-04: 10-1, Cincinatti, Memphis, New Mexico, Indiana. SOS -74th
02-03: 10-1, St. Johns, @Wisconsin, @Richmond. SOS-224th
01-02: 10-4, (all losses to top 70 teams, 2 to top 10 teams) @Arkansas, Fresno State, Minnesota, Marquette, Richmond. Overall SOS- 7th
00-01: 11-1, Kansas, @Temple, @Richmond. Overall SOS-18th
So the bar has always been 10-11 wins with 3+ non cupcake wins against an average SOS of around 180.
Buzz's Non-con schedules have been 305, 283, 286, 322. His overall non-con record prior to this year was 23-18 (one less loss than the 10 years before him) with only 3 non cupcake wins.
This year he is 9-2 with 3 non cupcake wins (I'm being generous with non-cupcake, basically including any team that's within distance of top 100). It's taken him 4 years to get to the bar against the worst non con schedule we've had in a decade. If he gets over the bar by winning the next two he's still scraping against it on the way over.