What would you consider a more successful season not necessarily this year but overall?
- Thread starter Creed Bratton
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Just 1 post season win would be a big improvement on what we have seen recently
I mean the third option absolutely blows all the other options away, what am I missing?
Win either the SEC regular season or the SEC tournament. It doesn't have to be both. Make it to no worse than an Elite Eight. That is a pretty successful season.
Play your best players and show growth as a team/individual improvement from start to end of season. Nobody should be making November mistakes in mid March. That's failure that was becoming the standard far too often around here.
For example, when your season basically ended because Dillingham was lost defensively on ball side and Oakland nails the one shot you can't give up down 1 in that situation.....think back to the Kansas game and how he kept going under and giving up wide open 3's to keep them in the game/eventually put UK Away. That is unacceptable.
For example, when your season basically ended because Dillingham was lost defensively on ball side and Oakland nails the one shot you can't give up down 1 in that situation.....think back to the Kansas game and how he kept going under and giving up wide open 3's to keep them in the game/eventually put UK Away. That is unacceptable.
Play defense and rebound.
And don't stand on the sideline like a damn idiot.
I'm thinking both will be easily accomplished.
And don't stand on the sideline like a damn idiot.
I'm thinking both will be easily accomplished.
This is the answer. Do that and things will work out for us.
The regular season title and Final 4 makes number 3 too easy a choice.
Obviously Final 4s a goal. But I don't want to be like Miami. History is filled with bad teams that Inspector Clouseau their way for two weeks into Final Four.
In a choice, Id rather be a great regular season team and prove it with an elite 8. Over aggravating can't put it together except 4 games in March.
Obviously Final 4s a goal. But I don't want to be like Miami. History is filled with bad teams that Inspector Clouseau their way for two weeks into Final Four.
In a choice, Id rather be a great regular season team and prove it with an elite 8. Over aggravating can't put it together except 4 games in March.
Win as many games in the regular season as possible, do not lose to severe underdogs. Win games in the SEC tournament, make it to the championship game, Make it to the Elite 8. After the Elite 8, it is a crapshoot, it is tough. But at least get there, then let the chips fall where they may. I will never turn my nose up at winning 25-28 games, make it to the SEC tournament final, then make the Elite 8. Do that enough, you will get the grand prize, the Championship. You have to get there to have a chance. I know under NORMAL circumstances we will not make the Final 4 or win the SEC tournament every year, not possible in todays landscape. But at least get there fairly frequently, and if we get beat, At least you can say you played your ass off and lost to a better team. But losing early to a underdog, it leaves you wondering what if ?? UK should never lose to a major underdog more than once a decade, Upsets happen, but the losses we have had recently, was becoming the norm, under performing is NEVER acceptable. But upsets do happen, even to UK. ALL teams have faced them. SO one every so often you can live with.
Every year ? That will never happen if so. You can hold them to what ever standard you want, but you have to be realistic. A title every year is way impossible, thus too high of a standard for any program. Now maybe a title every 4/5 years, but you just can't expect a team to do it every year. Do you mean going into the year expectations ? Depending on team and other teams talent, that is not even realistic. Some years a Final 4 would be a great achievement, some years, championship, but not every year. You are setting yourself up for major disappointment and unfair criticism to the team doing that. No team in any sport will ever do that.
The NCAA tournament has been around 85 years this next tournament.
Even if you take UCLA's 11 into account, the most, that's a title every 7-8 years.
UK averages a title, spaced out, every 10-11 years historically. Expecting a title every 4-5 years would be too much, honestly.
Having a team good enough to have a shot at the title every 4 or 5 years is not to demanding. I was saying to expect it every year is not realistic. To me, making the Final 4 every 5 years is very realistic. it is hard to get there, much less win it.
Get by bellarmine or st Peter's in the 1st round of the ncaa would be a huge success unbelievable what that clown did to this story book program of ours
