Without a doubt
Silver lining was that he recruited Murphy, Graves and Swanagan. If we had remained independent after Digger we would have been in worse shape. We were very fortunate to have Carroll for year and then moving to Brey.
I was a senior and we had to endure it
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Irish went 11-21 (3-17 in ACC) last season with a squad full of grad students.
This year’s is 11-17 (6-11 in ACC) with a squad of freshmen and inexperienced transfers.
to cheer on his teammates when he was on the bench. I think they meant Laszewski. That team had no soul, and you could find more competitive fifth grade girls basketball teams than them. I don't blame Brey at all after that one game when he was asked what was going wrong, and he pointed to the locker room and said, "Ask them." Those seniors earned that treatment.
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last few weeks.
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This team plays harder and plays better defense. Phonz was ineligible for half or more of the season and the underclassmen were brutal. Every scholarship player on the roster now, save for former walk-on Alex Wade, had legit, high D-1 offers and all would be taken as transfers by at least low D-1 programs. Even Sanders and Zona. Not to denigrate anybody, but Brooks Boyer, Carl Cozen, Joe Ross, belonged at the D-2 level. If you go back and watch a game from that season on YouTube, you will see what I mean. You guys would be howling if any of them were recruited today by Brey or Shrews. Burton would light up that team at will.
MacLeod's second team, the 1992-93 team, was as bad or worse, too, even with Monty Williams. MacLeod was handed a double crap sandwich by Digger in terms of the roster. That he got double-digit wins out of that squad was a solid coaching performance. At least his teams played hard all the time, unlike Digger's last few teams.
I also think that this year's team, as it is now, might beat last year's team at any point, because last year's team had no leaders and no toughness. They quit so easily and were so soft, and because Burton is better than anyone who was on last year's team. And because the coach this year hasn't thrown in the towel, and never would.
He was mentally retired, if not officially so.
My Senior year. we were awful. 10-17.
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