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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin" data-source="post: 1243805" data-attributes="member: 4069"><p>As far as not understanding the hire, that surprises me. We went after a couple big fish to no avail, and Groce had (has) a fantastic reputation recruiting, and getting good tournament runs from his Ohio team. In 4 years at Ohio, he'd built quite a nice team and had just gotten them to a S16. Under the circumstances, it looked like a very reasonable play. </p><p></p><p>The nightmare scenario for me is we're better this year, but still not more than the sum of the parts. We wind up sub .500 in the BIG, and very nervous come at-large time. With a fourth miss, well, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to envision some pretty bad fallout. </p><p></p><p>There's no reason to go think about that now, though. We have 3 resume building opportunities over the next few weeks with bellweather games: a ranked West Virginia team, then NC State and VCU. If we drop 2 of those, the mob will start forming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin, post: 1243805, member: 4069"] As far as not understanding the hire, that surprises me. We went after a couple big fish to no avail, and Groce had (has) a fantastic reputation recruiting, and getting good tournament runs from his Ohio team. In 4 years at Ohio, he'd built quite a nice team and had just gotten them to a S16. Under the circumstances, it looked like a very reasonable play. The nightmare scenario for me is we're better this year, but still not more than the sum of the parts. We wind up sub .500 in the BIG, and very nervous come at-large time. With a fourth miss, well, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to envision some pretty bad fallout. There's no reason to go think about that now, though. We have 3 resume building opportunities over the next few weeks with bellweather games: a ranked West Virginia team, then NC State and VCU. If we drop 2 of those, the mob will start forming. [/QUOTE]
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