freakadeac
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Not a bad loss
If we lose to VT I will be pissed
If we lose to VT I will be pissed
Pathetic loss
If we lose to VT I will be pleased
Whatever. I'm not going to pull for a team with 1 & 2-year players. If that means leaving the ACC, then sobeit.
As Calipari is now showing just recruiting one and dones might let you win every once in a while, but a mix lets you win more consistently.
Unlike BKF, it's not all or nothing.
Because we live in a black and white world. Guys shtick is getting old.
Not a bad loss
If we lose to VT I will be pissed
The 2005-2006 team was built to have a decent year and kinda fell apart, just like the 1975-1976 team was built to have a good year (made it to the top 10) before completely imploding going 4-8 in the ACC and losing badly in the 1st round of the ACC tournament.
The 1976-1977 team imploded. Probably the only team in history to go 2-5 in its last 7 games and make the final 8. A real testament to late season coaching, or luck?
Mostly luck. Our fade was pathetic and included a first round ACC Tournament loss to #7 seed Virginia - oh yeah, there were only 7 teams in the league then, so Virginia was the worst regular season team in the league that year.
The NCAA at that time took a max of 2 teams from a conference for it's 32 team tournament and had Clemson not been on probation, Wake's fade would've left them on the outside looking in.
The Deacs took advantage of the fortunate opportunity and put together two nice wins in the NCAA before losing to eventual champion Marquette. Wake has never since had a team as talented as that one. In my view, considering the whole season, they achieved close to the minimum that they should have. Credit to Tacy for bringing the players in, but he didn't achieve with them what he could or should have. He didnt do enough the following year either. He also benefitted from the times which saw almost no players leave school before their four years were up. Frank Johnson and Rod Griffin at least would've been candidates to leave early today.
LOL. EagleDeac is nuts. That 1976-77 team wasn't even ranked when the season began....and went on to an 18-2 record with a ranking of #4 on February 8th, 1977.
http://statsheet.com/mcb/rankings/motion/AP?season=1976-1977
LOL. EagleDeac is nuts. That 1976-77 team wasn't even ranked when the season began....and went on to an 18-2 record with a ranking of #4 on February 8th, 1977.
http://statsheet.com/mcb/rankings/motion/AP?season=1976-1977
You need players to stay a year longer than NBA interest dictates. A player who stays four years because the NBA doesn't want them does no good. A player who stays four years when he'd be the first pick after 2 can give you the best run in program history.
The point is that you said that team...which nobody gave any credit at all to prior to the start of the season...going 18-2 in a brutal ACC and rising to 4th in the nation "achieved close to the minimum that it should have". Nobody thought anything of that team at the beginning of the year...and with Tacy's superb guidance they won 18 of their first 20 games. Yes, I think that was a very good team....but talking like a team that nobody even rated should have been expected to go to the Final Four and only going to the Elite Eight was the "minimum it should have achieved" is asinine.
When that team made it to the Elite Eight, it was the first Wake Forest team that had even made the post-season at all in the 15 years since the 1962 Final Four team.
In the last 52 years since the 1962 Final Four team, Wake Forest has only had three teams to make the Elite Eight.....and Carl Tacy coached two of them.