The “numbers” show what happened in the past. As anyone that bothers to look at the charts can see, today’s data point doesn’t necessarily predict what tomorrow’s will be. But rosy projections based on someone’s “eye test” aren’t convincing arguments that will lead me to ignore obvious deficiencies that repeatedly lead to blow-out losses.
As you point out, the team has gone through months of practice. But that fact was also true two weeks ago when they got blown out by UNC. It seems like other teams have had months of practice as well.
As BJD pointed out, they play the games for a reason. Just because I don’t expect State to win a particular game doesn’t mean that I don’t watch and pull for State. But I believe that honest conversation before/after a game should be…..well honest.
