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Responding to the hypothetical question about using a good 2021 class as a reason not to fire Steele. Just asking the question if X has another top 15-20 type class.

There is no way he is fired after this year, and probably not after next year because of money. The buyout is likely too high.

If the 2021 class is expected to be as good as this past class and...

X can try whatever they want, you aren't getting Beilein. He was paid 3.8 million at Michigan, you think X can afford that? If so, why did we let Mack walk at 4 million?

When teams like IU is playing Nebraska and NCSU is playing Pitt, the committee better be looking at those things.

Correct, buyout is all that matters if you aren't sold on him. 5-6 year deal with say a 1mil buyout is better if you want to get rid of him in 2 years than a 3 year with 2.5mil buyout or so. I don't...

We can argue back and forth whether the overall play was the defense for the time. It seems clear though that Naji did not play it correctly and that Jones didn't help correctly. Naji basically...

I agree that we don't have enough good wins, but a win over DePaul would be 11 Q1-2 wins. There are teams on the bubble with more Q1 wins or overall better Q1 wins, but almost all of them have...

We can argue whether or not the overall defensive plan was lacking or the best idea, but at the end of the day the players need to make the play. Jones and Marshall made a mistake and did not play D...

Lunardi has a thing about teams that go under .500 in conference so that might be part of it.

Just beat DePaul and then let things fall as they may. At least Nova didn't smack us by 30 points this year, so who knows what happens in that game.

I understand being underwhelmed by Xavier's...

UNI got stomped by Drake. Not sure they have a good enough resume to get an at-large.

Snow is 100% right here. Lunardi's stance doesn't make any sense especially when you consider that a third of you schedule is out of conference. You could easily have 6 or so Q1-2 wins out of...

Lunardi was apparently really impressed with Stanford's loss to Oregon St that he moved them up in the bracket.

He has Rutgers ahead of us, but it will be interesting to see what the committee...

I feel like I already had this conversation in this thread...

Yeah, it doesn't sound terrible for Moore but is also not good. Hopefully sitting out Sunday was what he needed to get some playing time today.

Hopefully we get a Western Carolina game from Q...

The NET is obviously flawed because DePaul didn't move from 81 even though they were supposed to move up inside 75 so they could improve our wins.

I don't think that the intent with the post is to give Travis a pass on the record, we probably should be a few wins better. The point is though that Goodin, Scruggs, and Naji are the main returning...

I have a feeling that we are just going to disagree on this this point.

I will point out that Scruggs, whatever you feel about him as a PG this year, was recruited as a Point Guard. So if you look...

It is true that Steele has been involved in recruiting, but the head coach is going to make calls about who to prioritize and how time is spent.

Your point was that Steele lacked foresight not...

I think it is something you have to prepare for in case there is an outbreak in a certain city, say if the Seattle cases spread to Spokane and there is a larger outbreak there. It doesn't seem at...

I think the committee looks at it in a variety of ways, but essentially Q1-2 are good wins/losses and Q3-4 are bad wins/losses. I think the committee wants to see a certain amount of Q1-2 wins, but...

I agree with how it is used and I think it is overall better than the RPI. I'm sure if they are say evaluating between X with the win over SH and Virginia with the win over Duke for the last spot...

If it happens 4 times maybe that is more of a trend than magic.

You say the Steele has lack of foresight the last few years building this team, but he has only had one recruiting class in which to do so. Last year's freshman class was Mack's, by the time Steele...

Yeah, that doesn't really make sense. I don't know if he is doing some weird thing where he thinks that is where the committee would rank us if the season ended today but maybe thinks we have more...