BlackjackMc
Gil McGregor
The only poll that counts for anything is the CFP poll for the NCAA. Wake finished 17th, behind Pitt but ahead of Clemson and NC State. Keep it simple.
A good team finds a way to win. Wake found a way to win our bowl game. State didn’t with theirs.
Check. Mate.
That take is just so fng dumb. Lots of reasons but a UCLA bail 4 hrs before the game is low. No matter how much they whined afterwards. We would have too.
I'm not sure if more people miss the joke when it comes to bym or birdman, but it just makes it funnier to me.
it's dumb as hell to have NC State ranked over Wake Forest
Wake won the division, NC State, and its bowl game. End of argument.
Wake needs to make sure more people know that. Wake has been the best program in NC during the Clawson era.
it's dumb as hell to have NC State ranked over Wake Forest
Wake won the division, NC State, and its bowl game. End of argument.
And ranking State over Wake is egregiously bad.
But my overall sense is that Ethan works hard and is doing his best, despite being assigned to two disparate beats. It's not his fault that W-SJ management is constantly cutting costs and eliminating staff.
It grinds my gears when the opening paragraph of text in the W-SJ recap articles always start like "A recap of the Wake Forest men's basketball team's 76-54 victory over Florida State on Tuesday".
No shit. We got that from the headline and the sub-headline.
BTW this is a post about what grinds my gears.
I don't think I want to start next season ranked. We did well with the chip on our shoulder of being picked 5th/6th in the ACC Atlantic. Plus being ranked puts you on a pedestal that your opponents want to knock you off of. For that latter point I'm not sure how much it really matters but I do believe there is an element of extra motivation when you're playing a ranked team. If we manage to go 12-0 we're in the playoff. If we go 11-1 we will not be in the playoff, no matter where we start in the AP/Coaches rankings IMO. A realistic goal for next year is 10-2. Win the games we know we have won in the past + a couple of the ones where we won't be favorites (@FSU, @State, home vs Clemson, or home vs UNC if they have a good season).