The mood amongst the fans is definitely not what one expect of team making their first tournament in three years from a program of absolutely no real significance whatsoever.
Anyway, the winner of this game beats Tennessee.
No shit. The goal isn't just to get there but we should never take NCAA appearances for granted. Especially after living through three appearances from 2000 through 2013.
People forget how actually bad Alford was. I would argue he did way more damage than Lick, looking back, even though he really didn’t bug me much at the time. His second team was really good and
completely tanked down the stretch. then relied on pierce in year 3 instead of taking Chris Thomas along side the Evans and recker and we went three years with no NCAA. Snuck in the tourney in year 5 and got smoked, followed by blowing the conference title in 2006 and one of the worst losses in tourney history. Recruiting went to complete shit after 2002 leaving absolutely nothing but Gatens for Lick.
I’m patiently waiting for fran to prove me right but shit could be way worse. Yes, 4-14 is awful but a bad coach would have lost the roster and couldn’t bounce back like he did.