Struggle against mid-majors at home (Radford last year....Toledo this year)
Big bodied, not all that talented PF transfers because of playing time (Burns last year....Doherty this year)
Lose a rotation player to an ACL (Rex last year....Carmody this year)
Get blown out by good teams (Maryland this year - and more to come......pick a Top 25 opponent last year)
Regression by Gibbs (I didn't think that was even possible, but he's somehow even more of a liability this year)
The students don't care (outside of the 17 students that show up to each game plus the band)
With the exception of the ACC Championship team, this team never had great athletes, but was tough, could shoot, and was played sound. The last two seasons, the lack of athleticism has been exacerbated by the fact no one can knock down a shot, but there aren't a ton of open shots because there is absolutely no one on this roster who can create their own shot and thus create a shot for others.
I'm a season ticket holder who has yet to attend a game. I donated my money, but don't have much of a desire to take the time to drive and watch this team play live. I'll go to a few ACC games and the UCLA game, but also know the outcome will be similar to last year....20+ point losses to everyone not named Boston College, Pitt, or Georgia Tech.
Unless there are some transfer portal guys that want to get to South Bend, there is no help on the way. This year two more "solid" power forwards were signed.
He's a top 25 coach. We're ranked at 66 in the Sagarin.out of 300+ teams.
He has some gravitas. But is he running out of gas?
His post game homage to Maryland was disturbing.
Seemed professorial and cooly detached from his own team's inability to avoid getting steamrolled.
I'd like to see him go out a winner. But more of the same isn't good for anybody.
a football school with little similarity to their own cultures. Most basketball stars don't give a shit about education or religion. They tend to be even more pampered than football stars who at least seem to recognize that their careers usually don't last four years and therfeore value education and tradition.
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Brey has been at ND, what 20 years now..The program is stale, not looking good for forseeable yrs..THose two elite eights seem like eons ago..
And 2020-2021 will be even worse than this year.