This basketball team is a year away

[Ari Gold]

Then just admit we don't give a damn about basketball and have zero expectations. And Coach keeps talking about Stans who has been gone for years. Stop. This is all about having standards or not. If we don't set making the tourney as a standard just admit it and move on. And from the responses, we mainly have fans who don't care about the tourney and look at this program as 6 year old soccer where results don't matter. I expect more

Went 25-12 in year 3 NIT semis.. 25 and ****ing 12 .. just 3 years after RR.. think about that
Went to the tourney in 2019 year 4 with a 23-11 record
Went 11-7 highest finish since the new format in SEC and still had great chance to go in 2020.. IMO we should have been a lock but we aren’t a blue blood
Was suppose to be a down year and this team is very competitive .. and who’s to say can’t win the sec tourney .. ( that’s the only way we got in one year under Stands)
Next year ( if the core guys stay) is the year if we don’t make a little noise the Fire Ben crew can come out and be loud , I might be in there with them ..

I’m not saying CBH is a top 10 coach and we can’t do better. But if you **** up that hire it’s rick ray 2.0 all over again and I doubt we have Gregg Byrne come to our rescue again to clean it up.

Yes basketball has changed since the early to mid 2000s.. but it also a lot tougher to get in the big dance than it was back then and the SEC isn’t Near as top heavy , much more competitive top to bottom last few years

The NCAA is always and should always be the ultimate goal...
it took the Great One four years to get there
It took Ben four years to get there
It took Richard Williams 5 years to get there and 9 to get to sweet 16

And yes we should be more all in with basketball as a fan base and as an university..
We were when RS was here... and his results mirror then ones now , and CBH is doing it with half the support and tougher competition top to bottom..