guilty!

[hoyanitty]

I think we were all a little guilty of having expectations that realistically werent gonna happen.We started 3 freshman for a good part of the season with one being a walk on and one not yet ready for big minutes in the best conferance in the nation.We also didnt have the toughest schedule this year playing cuse,bc,and pitt once thank god for that or this year could have been worse than it was.Yes we have a pretty good class coming in next year but lets not forget we have 4 major additions to the big east that are very good teams. we need to get even bigger recruits for 2006 to keep building upon this years mini turnaround thats why even though a long shot it would be great to get brandon rush just to land a big one and maybe more would follow.Thats it hope we do well the rest of the way for something even more to build on next year.

[SFHoya99]

On our schedule, I think it was actually very fair. BC is the one with the easy schedule.

Not including us, there were six good BE teams and five not as good.

We played the six good ones 9 times, and the five others seven times. That's a similar ratio.

Furthermore, of those 9 hard games, six were on the road. Had we played Syracuse at home, maybe we are already in the tourney.

There's no reason why a team with three freshmen starting can't make the tourney. But I agree that it shouldn't have been the expectation.

[hoyarooter]

SFHoya99 said:

On our schedule, I think it was actually very fair. BC is the one with the easy schedule.


There's no reason why a team with three freshmen starting can't make the tourney. But I agree that it shouldn't have been the expectation.

UCLA will. But consider that all three of the Bruins' freshman starters were more highly heralded than any of the Hoyas' (although JG, of course, proved to be a major diamond). I would venture to say that if JG had been just another freshman as opposed to a ROY candidate (winner!), our conference record would have likely mirrored last year's.