Yeah, we definitely need some positive momentum next season with the roster we have returning.
I'm not high on White... It'd just be tough to fire him after having five straight tourney teams without any external screw-ups. I think even Anthony Grant would do a better job at UF, but White, even...
I'm sure if White gets an 8 seed next season, goes out in the first round, and then goes out and calls out the AD, he'll be canned. But White isn't the Green/McElwain type to self-implode like that.
Neither Green nor Pearl were directly fired for performance.
White, by all accounts, has been a solid ambassador for the university.
If we underachieve again, limp into the tournament after being on the bubble most of the season, and bow out early, I could see us parting ways with White, but...
I wish.
Realistically we're not firing a coach who has made the tournament the past four seasons (counting this season) with a win in all of the tourneys which were actually played, and I'd be genuinely shocked if we don't make the tournament next season as well. Can a non blue blood fire a...
That's a fair opinion but, again, Florida essentially returns the entire roster from a freshman/sophomore roster that would've made the tournament. We'll be ranked pre-season again and hopefully this time we can at least live up to expectations.
I get everyone is rightfully down on White right now, but are you guys kidding me with these UF projections? UF is losing Blackshear. Nembhard is still up in the air. Everyone else is back.
UF will be a Top 20 team again pre-season.
You just cited that UF with a 3-4 finish would be around 53 which is still "good enough" range. A 2-5 finish would definitely put UF on shaky ground, but plenty of teams have made the field with an RPI around 60 and UF would have the quality wins to possibly join that group.
But the original...
I'd rank the SEC resumes:
1. Auburn (2-3)
2. Tennessee (solid 3)
3. Texas A&M (5-6)
4. Kentucky (5-6)
5. Florida (7-8)
6. Missouri (8-9)
7. Alabama (8-9)
8. Arkansas (10-11)
9. Mississippi State (outside looking in)
A&M has the most underrated resume right now in the country imo...
Palm is just one guy (and his current bracket sucks ass). Florida is a 7 on the Bracket Matrix and Missouri is a 9. TeamRankings has UF at an 86% chance and Missouri at 70%.
RPI matters but if it were as important as you're implying we wouldn't need a committee. Florida's RPI is in the "good...
No bad losses technically. All losses are to Q1 or Q2. Loyola is currently leading the MVC with an RPI of 50. South Carolina at home is probably the worst loss and may end up being Q3 but right now it's Q2.
Missouri has the worst loss between the two (vs. Illinois).
Missouri didn't...
Florida with an RPI of 53 would be higher on the S-curve than Mizzou with an RPI of 40.
Florida has an exceedingly better resume than Missouri and I'm not sure that's even an arguable point.
South Carolina was in the Top 50 of RPI before conference play started and still has a projected OOC RPI of 61 even though they've played two projected Top 100 games outside of conference play and lost both of them badly (vs. Temple and at Clemson).
The fact that playing Western Michigan...
I think he's a high-level Euroleague combo forward. That's not an insult; the guys on high-level EL teams get paid. But I don't think he'll ever be able to stick with NBA SFs athletically and that's where he'd have to play since I doubt any NBA team gives him a shot at PF. His lateral quickness...