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NO POST SEASON PLAY: Now the the season is in the books let's break it down

FeatheredCock

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How would you rate the 2018/2019 season and why?

Don't be shy, speak what you feel eigher way.

Coaching grade?
Recruiting grade?
Which players can take the Gamecocks to postseason play next season? Can they make a run to even get to the Big Dance or NI?
Season grade?
What do you want to see?
What do you expect next season? 

 
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This is at least the 2nd year we have lost to non conference opponents we should not have lost to. Losing to Wy. Wofford, klempzun ect ect should not happen. Those losses killed any chance we had to get into the tourney. I'm fine with CFM but we need to stop losing to programs early in the season like Stoney Brook. 

 
I think we need to quit with the travel early in the year, especially with a young team.  Traveling all the way to Wyoming makes no sense to me and is hard on any team.  Once you are a good team and can go on the road and beat those teams then maybe look at some long travel.  Hard to have much of an opinion with all of the injuries this year.  Our football and basketball teams seem to have been snakebit this year.  If Feldman had not done what he did, this team would have been much better this year as well.  By all accounts the players coming in next year look to be good players and the freshman this year look promising and they will need to be as I think Kotsar and some of the others are what they are at this point I don't expect any big changes in performance from them, so the strong play is going to need to come from the young guys. 

 
2 hours ago, $Billz said:
This is at least the 2nd year we have lost to non conference opponents we should not have lost to. Losing to Wy. Wofford, klempzun ect ect should not happen. Those losses killed any chance we had to get into the tourney. I'm fine with CFM but we need to stop losing to programs early in the season like Stoney Brook. 


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Stoney Brook should not have happened. No excuses their. Need to stop losing like that especially now Frank has been here 7 years and really need to step and beat Clemson among others. I still feel he can reach those goals but in reality time is running out. Time to do it starting in 2019/2020 season.

 
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I didn’t see much to be positive about. Hopefully,next year will show some improvement.

 
I hear rumblings roomers that Frank is not happy. I am still in as a Frank Martin fan, I will say this. If he leaves on his own, we'll be fine. I don't know if we'll hit on a better coach than Frank. It won't be easy because he's a hell of a coach, but we'll be fine. It's a tough job but it pays well and we're in a great conference. If we fire him, that's when we're in trouble because the guys we want will not jump to take this job if we run somebody like Frank out against his will.

 
  I have heard that CFM and Coach Tanner are pretty tight and are on the same page. Who knows but I still think we give CFM 2 more years before the hot seat gets warm. The program has had some weird things happen like injuries and such, so we will be a little more patient due to circumstances.

 
$Billz said:
  I have heard that CFM and Coach Tanner are pretty tight and are on the same page. Who knows but I still think we give CFM 2 more years before the hot seat gets warm. The program has had some weird things happen like injuries and such, so we will be a little more patient due to circumstances.
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Tanner is tight with Frank the only way at this time I see the only scenario is if Franks wants out if not he will be given the 2 years by Tanner.

 
FeatheredCock said:
I hear rumblings roomers that Frank is not happy. I am still in as a Frank Martin fan, I will say this. If he leaves on his own, we'll be fine. I don't know if we'll hit on a better coach than Frank. It won't be easy because he's a hell of a coach, but we'll be fine. It's a tough job but it pays well and we're in a great conference. If we fire him, that's when we're in trouble because the guys we want will not jump to take this job if we run somebody like Frank out against his will.
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Curious where those rumblings/rumors are coming from.  I'd be absolutely shocked if CFM is not happy.  He's making great money, enjoys living in Columbia, has the support of the administration at USC, and isn't mentioned much for other coaching jobs (you would expect his name to pop up more often, given his stellar reputation, so I seriously doubt that he's given anyone the impression he wants to leave).  The ONLY reason Frank really has to be unhappy is with the press coverage that he gets locally.  The media does NOT do a good job of promoting the team or the players, and that dates back a LOOONG time prior to his tenure at USC (think what happened when we had Devan Downey and no one nationally paid attention to the kid until we beat Kentucky).

 
If I had to put opinions on the season out there, I would rate it as an overall positive.  There was certainly room for improvement at the beginning of the year.  But I wasn't shocked with what we faced in the losses we took.  We had an entirely new team, with 5 guys unfamiliar with the other players on the team.  We had two returning Seniors, but only one of the two was a proven factor for SC.  By the end of the season, the Freshmen players still able to play, were  "up to speed" and playing at a high level.  BOTH Seniors were killing it, and the Grad transfer was killing it too.  We progressed the way a team built the way we were SHOULD have progressed.

The disappointments we had at the end were big ones.  Win two games (Mizzou and 'Bama), and we're in the NCAAs this year.  Don't lose Lawson to injury, and we're a contender in the SEC tourney.  Get just ONE game, and we're at least in the NITs (Stinking Butler had a 16-16 record, after all, and they were in this year).

I'm worried that we'll have a difficult time in the low post next year with Silva gone, and Kotsar being the only returning big with real minutes there (I don't think Haase will be a natural fit there ever).  But I like almost every other spot on the floor to be competitive.  Give Bryant some off-season work, and add a little more beef to his frame, and the kid will be STELLAR in the SEC.  The incoming Freshmen are untested, but look to be solid.  I think we'll be just fine next year, once we find how to replace Silva's presence.  Too many good things returning for us to fall off too much.

 
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