Maybe Wizards were 1-5 in his sole NBA season. He's in his 21st year at FSU (longer than I realized). They had 2 losing seasons in his first 3 years, but none since. Plus, most any ACC program is going to be heavy on lesser opponents in its first 6 games. FSU has lost to the likes of Mercer, UCF, and now (badly) to Siena.
FSU & UL are going to visibly drag down the ACC SoS come March.
…come selection time. They certainly did last year, putting us as the 2nd place ACC team in the play-in game (our OOC performance certainly didn’t help). The ACC teams that got into the tourney last year performed very well - at least played to their seed. Va. Tech lost their opening game, but they were rightly an 11 seed losing to a 6 seed. ND, Miami, and UNC beat better seeds (Miami and UNC doing it multiple times). Duke could be argued to have not played to their seed, never having beat a better seed as they were a 2 seed, but lost to UNC in the Final Four. Hard to argue making the Final Four isn’t playing to your seed, even if you don’t face a better seed.
Luckily, so far ND hasn’t dug themselves a hole in OOC play. Our team now has a chance to make our OOC performance help our resume. A win today will definitely help. A loss wouldn’t be a killer, but we will need to win some tougher games coming up through December. Of the next 9 games, there is only 1 game agains a team that isn’t in the KenPom top 150. Including the game today, we have 4 games agains teams above 100 in KenPom. A winning record from now through end of year will be serviceable. 3 losses or fewer would put us in excellent position going into the bulk of conference play.
from two disastrous coaching hires after Fran McCaffery went to Iowa. Go Saints!
The Pilots have eight transfers; but only one came from a major conference program (Georgia Tech), and that was with an in-between stop at UTEP.
The rest: three from Eastern Washington, one each from UNLV (after Tulane), Fordham, Snow College (after Utah Valley and BYU), and Milwaukee (after UW-Parkside).
No surprise... Head coach Shantay Legans and two of his assistants came from Eastern Washington.
I know they're not getting kids from Duke and Kansas, but that's still pretty remarkable.
Jackson was arguably the first truly big name free agent after the Messersmith decision. He eventually signed a five year, $3.5 million contract with the Yankees which was unheard of money at the time.
He was making the rounds, meeting with various teams after the 1976 season. At one point, he visited the Monday Night Football booth.
Howard Cosell asked Reggie what he had to say to fans who thought he was being greedy as the bidding for his services got richer. "Howard," Jackson said. "I didn't make the rules. I'm just taking advantage of them."