Does Sha Know What He’s Doing?

[hallstorm]

There will always be some posters that wait in the wings to jump on the negative. One little moment is all it takes sometimes.

Looking at the big picture is harder to do. Being myopic and seeing all the minute flaws is easy.

The thing is, I don’t see any “homers” say that Sha has done even a mediocre job this year. I believe it’s unanimous that’s it’s been a complete failure as a season.

The issue I have is lumping Sha’s entire body of work into the last 2+ months of games.

Minimizing Sha’s run to the elite 8 is bad enough and then some posters fail to acknowledge that the first two years Sha exceeded expectations.

But it is what it is with some.

 

[shu09]

How can you exceed expectations and not make the NCAA Tournament when you're at a program in a high major league? What a ridiculous statement.

 

[NYC Pirate]

At 13-7 in conference, beating UConn, that damm Triple OT loss against Creighton we were truly a Bubble Team. The OOC, the beatdowns, the poor BigEast Tournament game and the upsets in Conference Tournaments kept us out.

 

[SHUSA]

How can you exceed expectations and not make the NCAA Tournament when you're at a program in a high major league? What a ridiculous statement.

because the committee is behind closed doors and biased. thats actually an honest answer. and i know you also believe it.

it was only disappointing because it ended unfairly in someone elses hands. the 15 mountain west teams who didn't deserve it all got demolished in the first round. shoulda been us in there. that was disappointing. and i've historically been negative.

 

[SHUHoopsFan]

How can you exceed expectations and not make the NCAA Tournament when you're at a program in a high major league? What a ridiculous statement.

Spot on. Crazy people are content that the expectations were 9th and thrilled we exceeded 9th. Amazing how quickly NCAA or bust doesn’t apply. And it’s simply because it’s a former great player now coaching us. Anyone else other than Sha or Andre Barrett and the board would be ripping the coach

 

[SHUSA]

Spot on. Crazy people are content that the expectations were 9th and thrilled we exceeded 9th. Amazing how quickly NCAA or bust doesn’t apply. And it’s simply because it’s a former great player now coaching us. Anyone else other than Sha or Andre Barrett and the board would be ripping the coach

it's because we had one of our best BE seasons ever last year. might have even been the best. including beating UCONN on its back to back championship tour.

 

[radecicco]

How can you exceed expectations and not make the NCAA Tournament when you're at a program in a high major league? What a ridiculous statement.

What? We were picked 9th by league coaches who know a thing or two about hoops, yet we exceeded expectations.

 

[shu09]

Spot on. Crazy people are content that the expectations were 9th and thrilled we exceeded 9th. Amazing how quickly NCAA or bust doesn’t apply. And it’s simply because it’s a former great player now coaching us. Anyone else other than Sha or Andre Barrett and the board would be ripping the coach

Yep. Far too many people are ignoring what we're seeing because they're close with the coach, or think fondly of him because of his playing days.

 

[shu09]

What? We were picked 9th by league coaches who know a thing or two about hoops, yet we exceeded expectations.

Laughable. So 8th would have been a good season because it was better than a meaningless preseason poll? Get out of here.