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Sam "Ace" Rothstein
i'm actually surprised we finished inside the kenpom top 100
And we keep moving up! 88 now!
i'm actually surprised we finished inside the kenpom top 100
And we keep moving up! 88 now!
And we keep moving up! 88 now!
Hell, we could be preseason top 25!If we don't play until New Year's, we could move up to the Top 20.
If we are talking best case scenarios:
What do people expect if Crawford returns to 2016 form, Moore and Chill improve slightly, Chaundee (especially) and Sarr both take leaps, and Hoard and Mucius play to the upper end of their potential as freshman? Many of you seem to think that team wouldn’t even make the tournament.
i'm actually surprised we finished inside the kenpom top 100
More straw men.If we are talking best case scenarios:
What do people expect if Crawford returns to 2016 form, Moore and Chill improve slightly, Chaundee (especially) and Sarr both take leaps, and Hoard and Mucius play to the upper end of their potential as freshman? Many of you seem to think that team wouldn’t even make the tournament.
17-15 or so.
17-15 or so.
More straw men.
Many of us don't think every single player on the team will improve, and Hoard and Mucius will play above their recruiting rank. See: 2017-18 Wake Forest basketball.
I was thinking High Point and a battle for state pride between Wake, HPU, UNC-G and App St.
Withholding money got [Redacted] fired. If only those donations had remained on hold until Ronnie retired we might have some optimism for the short term.
Manning will have a mediocre team next year and be kept. He'll have enough talent to field a solid ncaa team and under achieve. Unlike dino manning won't be fired for "lack of post season success."
If we are talking best case scenarios:
What do people expect if Crawford returns to 2016 form, Moore and Chill improve slightly, Chaundee (especially) and Sarr both take leaps, and Hoard and Mucius play to the upper end of their potential as freshman? Many of you seem to think that team wouldn’t even make the tournament.
It's almost like fans are happy when we win and unhappy when we lose.
Are you suggesting he shouldn’t get another year if he does the bold and brings in a solid 2019 class? Or that it would be bad for Wake Basketball if he got another year after that type of season?
I don’t get this line of argument from the Manning Out crowd that basically goes “we know he sucks and will never get us to the top of the ACC so better to cut bait now than allow him to stick around 3 more years based on simply reaching mediocrity.”
If you’re a Manning outer that concedes we might be decent next year, it seems like the most likely best case scenario is Manning chugging out three .500 ACC seasons, landing 3 more ACC level recruiting classes, Wellman claiming victory and retiring, and then letting our new AD look for an upgrade to take us to the next level.
That seems way more plausible that Wellman hiring a coach that will lead us to the top of the ACC.
HUGE ifs. I mean, all of that won’t happen. And we don’t have a schedule yet.
But I’d say that team wins 20+ games, finishes high enough to skip Tuesday in the ACC tourney, and makes the NCAAs as an 8 or better.
I expect us to be a bubble team next year. Hope we’re better than that, but that’s my expectation.
Seriously? That would be a much deeper team than we had in 2016 and the upper end of Hoard’s freshman year potential is probably 85% of what Collins gave us that year. Hard to see how we would be worse than that team if everything I described happened.
Your expectation is to be a bubble team in year five with what we have coming back and what we have coming in? Jesus, DM has a pretty sweet gig.