I always like to point out Jerome Tang. (Someone who actually had experience and was successful) Took over a program that was struggling, not much for talent on the team and picked to finish dead last in the Big 12. He hit the portal, o put together a team and went to the Elite 8.
It can be...
The remaining schedule is going to be night and day difference in difficulty. The optimism is great. However, if we were playing Michigan States or Wisconsin's schedule, we'd probably have 6 wins on the year. Non conference schedule was a joke and we've played a couple of really bad Big Ten teams.
I'm not buying it yet. We have the softest non conference schedule in the nation. We haven't looked particularly good against any of the teams that aren't god awful. One quality home win against what is looking like a bottom two or three team in the Big Ten is all we've really mustered thus far...
I understand how it works. Point being, by the end of the year, they'll most likely be a quad 3 team, at best. Thus, making the loss look even worse than it does now
This is the new reality of college basketball. Like it or not. It wasn't just K-State last year. It's getting to the point where every year is a clean slate for every program. Just look at the poster turnover on the Gophers. Our issue is that our couch is only putting 2 or 3 legit Big Ten...
Minnesota NET ranking is #222. Ranked lower than schools like 0-6 Detroit and 0-6 Georgia Southern.... I don't think this is going to be anything other than a quad-dogshit win for USF