(02-14-2020 09:04 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: (02-14-2020 08:29 AM)ZachMan Wrote: (02-14-2020 08:09 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote: Bottom line -- we just aren't very good. Watch some of these high level teams play on any given night, and then watch Memphis play. Night and day.
Who are these so called high level teams that we look nothing like, I guarantee you they aren't made up of all freshman and all of them have bad losses somewhere. Your so mad that we had the number #1 class because it's in almost every post, but we don't still have the number #1 class playing but somehow that shouldnt matter, win anyway. You hear that HOF Roy Williams you should win even when Cole Anthony was hurt, not be 10-12.
We do a lot of dumb things for sure that cost us games but some of these guys are starting to figure this out and if, big if,Penny can keep them together and keep adding pieces we will have a solid program going forward. SMH
Auburn - lost their 2 or 3 best players from last season, still rolling
Kentucky - Cal doing what Cal does
Dayton - winning w/ Anthony Grant as coach
Villanova - plays mostly FR and SOPH
Duke- starts 4 FR
LSU- Mays is a SR and the rest of their rotation is basically FR & SOPH
Houston - lost their top 3 players, playing lots of FR & SOPH
Texas Tech- rebuilt their entire roster
There's 8 right there.
You're on to something. When you lose, you try to find excuses and not own up to the loss.
Think about our football season, we didn't lose a bunch of guys to injuries but the guys that we lost was high.
We lost Patrick Taylor for 9-10 games, that's our starting running back.
We lost our punt returner in Pop Williams for 10 games.
We didn't have Chris Claybrooks for 7 games.
We lost Austin Hall for a game.
Didn't have TJ Carter for 55 minutes of the Cincinnati (Black Friday game), the AAC championship game, and the Cotton Bowl.
Speaking of the Cotton Bowl, we didn't have Joey Magnifico.
Sanchez Blake (our leading tackler at that time) missed a month.
Cole Mashburn (who saw playing time in the first two games) was out for the remainder of the season.
Our backup tight end (Sean Dykes) missed 10 games.
Our football team lost significant players due to injury, but we didn't care because our football team kept winning.