SOBO1 said:

I think Piekel is in an excellent situation. Paid $3.2M to coach in one of the premier college basketball conferences with extremely limited expectations. This is year 8 and he has two NCAA appearances (if you include the play in game) and by all accounts his tenure is considered wildly successful. Countless P4 coaches have been fired for less.

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Seton75 said:

We were uninspiring in the OOC P5 games, we played a putrid game vs RU on 12/9, slipped by Monmouth on 12/12, then 8 days later we kicked Uconn's butt.

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SHUHoopsFan said:

I'm with you on this, but the constant turnover in basketball is not good for a coach like Sha. It took him 2 years to develop Richmond, Dawes and Dre. We're in year 1 for the overwhelming majority of these guys who may not be as talented as those guys. Maybe that group didn't buy in soon enough and why it took 2 years, I don't know. I believe no doubt this team in March will be exponentially better. The question is will we be like last year with a really slow start and will we be good enough within 4 months to be a top 5 team in this conference.

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