Projected Final SEC Basketball Standings

[BulldogBlitz]

You should waltz on down pregame and tell that to howland. We'll wait for your report back.

 

[She Mate Me]

Not trying to be antagonistic, but to us less knowledgeable about the basketball recruiting world, next year feels like the **** or get off the pot year. 3 top 20 classes in 4 years next season, correct? If Howland does not have them in the tournament it seems to reason we are either recruiting a **** ton of busts or can't coach the talent. Either way you can't blame Rick Ray... It would be different if next season was the first top 25 class. Please explain.

Three of the highest rated players from those classes are not playing for us (Newman, Kegler, Herard), so it's not really fair to assume we're playing with Top 20 classes. Those defections, misses can be blamed on Howland, but it's not uncommon elsewhere these days. Anybody who says he shouldn't have signed two of the highest rated MS kids in recent years is being a bit obtuse.

 

[She Mate Me]

Anything less than 9-9 is a bad year, in my opinion.

I'm looking for 8-10 at this point. I think that gets us in the NIT, considering all SEC teams with winning conference records are probably dancing, and will be a very acceptable accomplishment for this young team. Anything better and I'm very happy considering the quality of the conference. It can be a few games worse and that won't be fun.

 

[mstateglfr]

Well according to Lunardi we are a borderline NCAA team right now and that dude is right like 99% of the time.

Its easy to be right when you say 'based on current play'. You can ultimately be wrong as **** and just point back to the disclaimer as why you were wrong.
Whats impressive is someone who correctly guesses seeding from 3 down to 16/play-in.

 

[RiverCityDawg]

Nope not with the signing class we got coming in he's not. We'd have to totally **** the bed this year for him to be coaching for his job next year. Like 4-14 in SEC type shitting the bed. Howland is fine and he's doing a good job despite some of y'alls impatience.

So if we win 7 conference games this year and 7 next, you think he's for sure safe? The non-conference schedule will have to be a little tougher next year so let's say that's 17 wins and no post season again in 18-19. I think that's what folks mean by saying he would be coaching for his job next year. Maybe that would be enough to keep him around, but I don't know. It might depend on how things were trending towards the end of the season.

 

[DAWG61]

Its easy to be right when you say 'based on current play'. You can ultimately be wrong as **** and just point back to the disclaimer as why you were wrong.
Whats impressive is someone who correctly guesses seeding from 3 down to 16/play-in.

Yea cause there's someone out there more accurate than Lunardi cause it's so easy

So if we win 7 conference games this year and 7 next, you think he's for sure safe? The non-conference schedule will have to be a little tougher next year so let's say that's 17 wins and no post season again in 18-19. I think that's what folks mean by saying he would be coaching for his job next year. Maybe that would be enough to keep him around, but I don't know. It might depend on how things were trending towards the end of the season.

I would think if we went 7-11 in the SEC next year he would then be on the hot seat the following season

 

[engie]

Howland is now chasing an additional 5 and a PG in the class, as has been pretty obvious we needed IMO... Be interesting to see what happens there.