It will be interesting to see how far Miami moves up Monday assuming we take care of business against BG on Friday night. Hard to see us not moving into the top 20.
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I am thinking we will move in front of St Louis and maybe Louisville. But we still arent in some voters top 25
We move past Alabama, but Arkansas might hop us. Any chance we jump Vandy?
Forgot about that one.
he left for that and $750k.
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Overpaid.
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I have no issue with Kam. If Miami had held on against Akron, Kamās clutch shots against Kent the night before would have gone down in team history. I hope he invests his money well. $750k is great. 26-0 is priceless.
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One thing at a time as you say. Beat Bee Gee then see what shakes out. Right now if you see what I mean, itās more important to be undefeated than raked as high as we would like.
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Things arenāt looking great for Damon Stoudamire ā¦ wonder where Kam ends up next after his coach is presumably fired.
If Kam got 750k great for him. Thats life changing money for a year of playing college hoops. As I said before, Iām not sure we have the minutes to keep him and Byers happy anyways so sounds like it worked out for everyone.
I am quite worried about how we keep Byers, Elmer, and Skaljec when that type of money is being thrown around but thats a problem for a few months from now.
One advantage that basketball has over football is that even at the MAC level, these guys may have professional opportunities overseas, so its not like in football where most players not going to the NFL only have a couple years to make their money.
You can sacrifice a year if you are happy at Miami and still go play overseas for a decade making money playing ball
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IIRC Georgia Tech is one of the few power conference programs with real academic standards, I believe all freshman have to take calc for example. Probably limits their player pool and forces them to overpay during recruiting.
We completely should, but unfortunately I just donāt see that happening. These voters (and coaches) are hyper-focused on SOS and they refuse to change their mind even in the face of a historic 27-0 record. Iām curious if a 27-0 team has ever not been in the top 10.
This is similar to 2023 when FSU was 13-0, ACC champs, and didnāt make the playoffs due to their āperceivedā team strength. Such BS.
Iām confident weāll make the tournament. If we win out, it will still only be at a 8-9 seed (which again is a giant load of BS). If we go undefeated and stumble in Cleveland, weāll be a 15-16 seed. I hope Iām wrong.
Rant over. Iāll focus on enjoying this season. These guys are so much fun to watch.
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We wonāt be that low because at larges arenāt seeded that low, but 1 or 2 losses probably gets us sent to Dayton for a play in game as one of the last at large teams in the field, assuming we do in fact still get a bid.
For fun I asked ChatGPT. Given these mid-week loses, right now it predicts Miami at #15 in the AP and #17 in the coaches poll. That would be nice but highly unlikely IMHO.
However I have complete faith and confidence in whatever @YellowNumber5 predicts.
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We are going to go farther than any hoops team has gone at Miami this year.
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to be honest, whether we make NCAA as auto bid or at-large, to make a run to Sweet 16 or beyond, we should want to be seeded 11, 12 or 13th. Zero interest in being seeded 8/9 as you then have to play one of the top 4 teams in country in 2nd round. Same with being a 10 seed if you knock off the 7thā¦thereās a big difference between the eight teams seeded 1 & 2 compared to all the teams seeded 3-6th for first and second round games. I will take my chances against any of those teams the first weekend as opposed to winning first game and then playing UConn, Michigan, Arizona, Houston, etcā¦or Purdue, Duke, Iowa St, Kansasā¦
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Gotta beat them eventually to win the natty.
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Iām just not that precious about this. Why? 48 of the 64 teams in the main draw donāt make it out of the first weekend. UConn won 2 straight nattys and then fell on the first Sunday last year. Do we really want to forego an 8/9 seed in the first round for an 11 seed so we can find ourselves against 6 seed Wisconsin?
We should want as good of a seed and, accordingly, as favorable of a first round match up as possible. The rest of the chips will fall where they may.
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I donāt give a crap about the seeding. Get in the tourney. Throw anyone you want at Miami. Our guys arenāt going to be scared.
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Actually yes LOL. I donāt see much difference between the Wisconsins of the world (just got beat by an awful OSU team that I think Miami would beat) and the KY, Miami FL, St Maryās of the world. And if we want to advance past the first weekend which is what everyone is talking about, you have better shot against any seeds other than the top 1-2 seeds in the brackets.
Between 2005-2025 tourneys hereās the comparison of seeds advancing to Sweet 16 weekend:
8 Seeds: 7x (they went 7-33 in 2nd round games)
9 Seeds: 5x (they went 5-35 in 2nd round gamesātwo of the 5 teams advanced over 16 seeds so they are even less successful most times)
10 seeds: 9x
11 seeds: 17x
12 seeds: 9x
So again, if the goal is to advance and win more than just 1st round, being the 8/9 seed may look better on paper but its a substantially worse place to be in than seeded 10-12.
Obviously, lets just get in the tourney and take our best shots. they shouldnāt fear anyone but just know there are differences between the top 8-10 teams and everyone else. We can truly compete against everyone else IMOāthe top 10 is a different beast.
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