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So, so incredibly fragile.

Imagine not wanting your alma mater's athletic program to make improvements.

Smart to make her the focal point. Do it again against Ohio, another smallish team.

Rivera was a very late addition to the roster that season, arriving in early August IIRC, and then took a medical redshirt for a foot injury.

Also blown out by Miami but as The Wiz said, they took Auburn to OT and they lost at Dayton by 9. They're fully capable of giving power conference teams a scare.

What an unmitigated disaster of a season they're having. Looks like Valentine has just lost the team. It feels a lot like Ford's last season.

It was a perfectly reasonable thing to compare the current coach's program to his predecessor's program. Just be aware that there's a group of extremely sensitive posters who are triggered by even the mildest criticism of either Travis Ford or Chris May. Most of us don't have the luxury of being able to lie to ourselves about what we see with our own eyes. Schertz has proven to be adept at halftime adjustments in a way Ford was not. We're seeing leads grow in the second half this season instead of watching them shrink. It's a great feeling if you allow yourself to enjoy it.

Field Hockey was a few plays away from a winning season this year - with an interim coach who was hired 2 weeks before the first exhibition game, a roster of 15-16 players, and minimal resources in general. They were 5-4 and the next 6 games saw 2 double OT losses, one single OT loss, and a 1-goal loss in regulation. I'd like to think that doesn't happen with a full roster that didn't start to run out of gas.

I don't disagree, and I don't even watch college football. (Major storylines are unavoidable.) I think my answer to the OP's question is: No, he's not, and neither are any other basketball coaches right now but there are some more apt comparisons out there than Schertz. They all have more to prove first.

Maybe Mark Byington will end up being a better comparison. NCAA Tournament in year one at Vandy, now has them undefeated so far this season. Edit: Just went back a page and saw that @TheA_Bomb mentioned Byington a few hours ago.

Rhody lost by 2. That's a good way to lose a game.

At least the chess team is outside the purview of the Athletic Department. Even so, why not celebrate them? It's a top-tier program that makes noise nationally every year. It's a cool thing that the University has. As with soccer, it costs nothing to recognize them.

I understand if the players/coaches themselves couldn't be there due to other obligations, but I still can't wrap my head around the fact that it wasn't even mentioned. You have a team in the final four, you have an audience of your most loyal supporters, and it costs you nothing to celebrate and promote it to those people. And they did nothing. I would love an explanation but we'll never get one.

Winning ugly is still winning. They're up to 4-6, winning 3 of the last 4. Now they have a week to prepare for Mizzou.

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