Why we need to give Ray a few years to get this thing going

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Year 3 -- his expectations are identical to Stansbury.

He doesn't "get more time" because he failed in recruiting on the front end. And I'm not going to change my standards simply because he's a new coach that I want to see succeed. 3 years is PLENTY of time for most of these coaches to get their programs up and running. Hell, based on the Baylor game I saw yesterday, it looks to me like Frank Martin has South Carolina on it's feet in year 2 -- a program that's much worse historically than us.

My first year expectations were surpassed. Both in number of wins, effort, and improvement. I'm not saying a hotshot recruiter wouldn't have had a better MSU team. But for what we actually had, we overperformed.
I want to see marked improvement to .500 or better this year.
I want to see us as a bubble NCAA team in year 3 -- and will be seriously questioning our direction if we miss the NIT.

IDGAF about "recruiting" until it obviously limits our ability to take steps forward as a program.