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Every year is a "show me" year. The ACC is highly competitive and being good is not guarantee to finish in the top 10. But the fall-back attitude of not being able to win, that Pastner can't do it, has been proven false. The ground state of hopelessness and cynicism is now unjustified. We...

Thanks for that.

T The premise of your argument is that Gt will be less prepared than the opposition, that non-contact practice is not significantly different than no practice at all. Just because you believe it strongly doesn't make it true. This is uncharted territory and nobody KNOWS how it will play out...

I agree that by the end of last season the team was playing at the level of a middle seed NCAAT team. But early season problems would have tanked any chance for an NCAAT bid. When GT had nine consecutive NCAAT bids, the ACC had 8 teams. There were 29 conferences and each conference averaged 8...

Why would we have a bad season?

Can't win if you don't play. Pastner is betting that the season will be a war of attrition and he wants to have a team with horses running throughout. Since nobody knows how this will play out, it seems a stretch to take him to task for the strategy. I celebrate his guts for doing something...

I think many of us imprinted on the Bobby Cremins model of program building. The desired model is that there is a magic coach out there who can recruit for Gt at the highest levels without regard of industry changes. And these changes pertain to the yearly small number of high school elites...

That started change in the second half of the Cremins era. it started with Dennis Scott and then Kenny Anderson leaving early. And culminated with Al Harrington (who is a big Tech fan) skipped college entirely. That was the end of the Cremins model of team building. What has emerged that has...

Depends on the criteria: Best season? Best Career? Best stats? Best winners? Does subsequent NBA career count? Are we assembling a team of complimentary players or just the best five regardless of position or role? Do Great defenders factor in? Different definitions of "best" results...

Wow (regarding Zion's parents' home after he committed to Duke)! What is interesting to me is how such a thing could be kept secret at the time. How could this garish malfeasance be missed by a Carolina or NCSt insider who would love to see Duke burn? Wouldn't there be even ONE Carolina fan...

The Gt penalty was not severe because of the strip Club Visit, the penalty was severe because LaBarrie lied upon NCAA inquiry.

Let's face it, the public disclosure of the specific questions carry a lot of weight of accusation that can influence the court of pubic opinion. Once public opinion starts to turn on someone, game over, man, game over. K was held on a tall pedestal for decades, does he or his Duke want to see...

I think a strategy is to string-out the process as long as possible. Schools want to delay, delay and delay so that the infractions become so distant as to be irrelevant from the public's point of view. The NCAA will certainly be complicit to protect a Gravy-Train program like Kansas. So...

Based on Pastner's statement referring to "buy-in" with regards to Price's transfer, I had assumed that Price wasn't interested in working himself up the ladder on an ACC level team and hit the portal to hunt a more plug-n-play role. It is a little bit of a puzzlement that the best he could...

Trying to rebuild a small, down program in the ACC doesn't sound like a good formula to improve one's health.

The rise of the mid-major programs and general parity has the same watering down effect on the other P-5 conferences as it does on the ACC. "The ACC is King" attitude was challenged in the 80's by The Big East with Thompson, Boeheim, Carlisimo, Carnaseca, etc. I think that the "ACC is King"...

The Federal indictments against the college coaches and shoe reps might have closed most of the back door money for the college game and the G-League contracts may merely represent the formation of a new market where that money can flow in the front door. Why should coaches, reps and players run...

We certain that is not a football posting?