Quote Originally Posted by Dawg61 View Post
Twenty wins Engie. That's one less than the 21 Stansbury got when he got fired. Ray has an easier OOC schedule too. It's year three. You don't think he can win twenty games? That won't even get us in the tourney. 20 wins puts us in the NIT. Maybe. You don't think we can do that? Why not? It's year three.
Precisely because it's year 3 of a total rebuild is why it's an unreasonable expectation for him to match what our "best ever coach" was able to do in year 14 with FOUR starters projected at one time or another as NBA lottery picks, who was talked about all over the web as having an "elite 8 talent" team -- before crumbling down the stretch and going first out in the SEC and NIT tourneys...

No one is saying they will be "happy" longterm with the 18-20ish wins we're probably going to get this year. We are acknowledging that it's significant movement in the right direction, with brighter days on the horizon with THIS regime, who is now playing you for a "RAY CAN'T CROOT!!!1!1" fool.

It's funny how you bring up the "easier OOC" schedule -- while ignoring the previous SEC schedule being much easier under Stans when we still had divisions and got all of the west teams twice, while only playing the(far superior) east teams once.