What is a successful season

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k-town_king said:
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I'd take 5 experienced highly rated starters over 4 inexperienced highly rated starters. How did Zo have a much higher rated team? Also 5 returning starters to one.
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He didnt have five returning starters, he had 3 returning starters but the other two did receive alot of minutes. I went by rivals on all the players but even if u use every rating system known to man the players were evenly rated.

The difference between the two teams might be experience for Pearl's team but I know going into Pearl's first everyone, myself included thought they would suck.
 
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Big Orange 98 said:
I see people just keep coming up with new excuses for coach Zo...this is unbelievable.
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Funny how they have to go back and compare previous seasons.
I can look at this years bench production and see into the future.
 
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calban said:
Funny how they have to go back and compare previous seasons.
I can look at this years bench production and see into the future.
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Its ridiculous. People can make up all the excuses they want... but at the end of the day all you have to do is turn on the TV and watch this mess to understand that the guy can simply not coach. He was a good player, however he is not the least bit qualified to be a high level D-1 head coach.
 
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volbeast33 said:
He didnt have five returning starters, he had 3 returning starters but the other two did receive alot of minutes. I went by rivals on all the players but even if u use every rating system known to man the players were evenly rated.

The difference between the two teams might be experience for Pearl's team but I know going into Pearl's first everyone, myself included thought they would suck.
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That is where the comparisons come in. Pearl is arguably the best coach in school history, yet, people use him as a comparison to the next guy up. So, because Pearl elevated an average team to a winning team then Martin is supposed to elevate a dumpster fire to a tournament team. I know it is human nature, but some of our casual basketball fans (i.e. keep up when we are winning) automatically label him a failure because they expect what Pearl was doing. Martin actually overachieved his first year- don't care what anyone says.

Now, I know some people will label me as a "Martin aplogist" for this argument, which makes no sense. Just because I think Martin inherited a terrible situation and overachieved his first year doesn't mean I think he has been better than Pearl or been that successful. I had higher expectations this year, and if he fails to make the tournament, then it is a failure. Not much more can be said about that.
 
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#191
A successful season is winning your home games, winning above 500% of games decided by 7 or fewer, and staying competitive on the road. With that said with given roster, we should be no worse than 16-3 with a top 25 RPI...were no where close to that. But there's still ground to be made up fortunately. I for one see us no better than 18-13 which in my estimation is a huge letdown and failure.
 
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Yeah, I forgot about the skyboxes. So 21,000+ seating instead of 23,000+ means we can justify not making the tourney ever year. Wow.
Accept only mediocrity and you will continue to get only mediocrity. Zo is garbage - send him to the landfill.
 
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IAMLEGEND said:
A successful season is winning your home games, winning above 500% of games decided by 7 or fewer, and staying competitive on the road. With that said with given roster, we should be no worse than 16-3 with a top 25 RPI...were no where close to that. But there's still ground to be made up fortunately. I for one see us no better than 18-13 which in my estimation is a huge letdown and failure.
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You really think a team that wasn't ranked should be 16-3?
 
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