Yes, dillusional. We're talking about this year not next or previous. Injuries happen. How do you have a full roster if you have injuries? This isn't pro sports where you can just sign other players and continue your season.
Don't move the goalposts or I should say basket. We're talking about this year's team not last year or next year.
No one is moving any goalposts. We have had three successive losing seasons, and it is no longer an anomaly that you can chalk up to bad luck. One year, fine, bad luck, injuries, etc. We are well past that point. And injuries get magnified when you are permitted 13 scholarships and only have 11 recruited scholarship players on the roster. You cannot complain about how thin we are due to injuries and just ignore the fact that we started 2 guys down due to Larranaga's recruiting and roster management.
Get a grip. A huge part of the team was out for the season.
Ok. Agreed. How about the last two years? Do you not think having a full roster would have helped deal with the injuries? You can’t cherry pick what parts of the story you like.
You recruit it and fill all 13 spots, not 11.
I guess you forgot the cloud of the NCAA Adidas scandal. That really hurt recruiting. I just feel the entire picture has has to be examined before passing judgment.
Like just throwing bodies out there is going to produce wins. The team lost several major contributors this past season. You can't just throw bodies out there and expect winning results even if you have them which they didn't.
He didn’t have the bodies because he didn’t recruit them. The Adidas thing was YEARS ago now. It can’t be an excuse forever and at this point it isn’t what is preventing us from having any useful bigs in the roster. I ask this without sarcasm - how long do you allow that to be an excuse?
time.Really don't see why you show any interest in the athletic program. You're toxic.
You realize the Adidas investigation was brought on by one of the assistant coaches on Coach L's staff, right? It's not like the NCAA or FBI just pulled their names out of a hat and decided to name Miami in their investigation. Make no mistake about it, Miami should be counting their lucky stars that the investigation failed to prove any infractions or violations were committed by them, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Also, an injury or 2 is bad luck. However, Miami has been having injury issues for 3 years now. Recurring injury problems at some point need to be called something else besides just bad luck. Lastly, the roster issues we're currently having fall squarely on the HC. He gets paid the big bucks, because ultimately it's his decision as to who we recruit and we don't. Recruiting has been pretty bad lately and the few recruits we do get are being ran off. Poor roster management is the biggest reason why we played most of the year with 7 scholarship players. Miami has a record of 33-49 in their last 3 years. Injuries and scandals aside, poor play is the biggest reason why Miami needs to make changes to their coaching staff.
This. I really don't understand why it's so hard for some of these slurpers to admit there are serious problems with this program's current state. Coach L had a ton of success his first 7 years. But that was the past, and this is now. It's like some of these blind homers think L deserves a lifetime contract because he got us an ACC title 8 years ago, so they have an answer and an excuse for everything. 8 years ago is ancient history.
It was widespread with Adidas. I have no skin in this game, but there are some reasonable explanations why the roster numbers are what the are. Context matters.
Are we going to blame the Adidas scandal for why 3 years later we still can't recruit a big man out of high school? Or why the only 2 recruits from last year's class, Timberlake and Cross, both left the program? We can't continue to use this as an excuse for our current failures.
I didn't say that, you did. The Adidas scan did affect recruiting. By how much, who knows?