UpandIn913 wrote:
This is the worst loss since 1985!!! This is flat out embarrassing!! There is no reason why the men's basketball team shouldn't be showing improvement!
Look at the women, Daniel was left with ABSOLUTELY nothing, and he is getting the job done! This is pathetic.
I would argue that the women's program is by far the exception and not the rule. In the 2008-2009 season, the Sugar Bears were 6-23 and only won 2 conference games. Last year the Bears were 5-24 with 1 conference win. In 2009-2010, the Sugar Bears pulled off one of the biggest turnarounds in NCAA DI history and went 21-8. They did something that was incredible and highly unlikely. We have been fortunate to see the success that many of the programs on campus have had over the transition. Both WBB and Volleyball (and hopefully football) have gotten into the postseason within a year or two of being eligible to participate in postseason play which is a huge accomplishment. Yes it was disheartening and extremely embarrassing to lose to an NAIA team at home, but you have to give these guys more than a season and 3 games to get something done. They'll figure it out. It's probably not going to happens as quickly as it did for the Sugar Bears, and it would quite frankly be unrealistic to expect the same turnaround to happen to this team as it did for the 2009-2010 Sugar Bears.