01-28-2026, 10:36 PM
The day Miami hired Jai Lucas away from Duke, I knew this game was going to be a loss.
When Jai Lucas departed for Coral Gables, Jon Scheyer released a statement that went along the lines of, "This is going to go well for Miami. The guy is a legitimate head coach." His first year is bearing that out. It didn't hurt that he was able to bulldoze the ruins of the previous regime and bring in an all-new roster. That avenue of program overhaul isn't quite available to Stanford, who is in the process of rebuilding the old-fashioned way.
Next up is a trip to Florida State, who just cooled Cal off. Whatever our goals for this season might be, we don't absolutely have to win this game in order to meet them but it sure would be nice. The NCAA tourney was always mostly a pipe dream. If Kyle Smith actually takes this team to the tourney, he is God, or a sorcerer. 4 wins between now and the end of the season, ACC tourney included, is an NIT trip, which would be a very good outcome considering that we started out with a T-Rank of 102 on barttorvik.com at the beginning of the season.
When Jai Lucas departed for Coral Gables, Jon Scheyer released a statement that went along the lines of, "This is going to go well for Miami. The guy is a legitimate head coach." His first year is bearing that out. It didn't hurt that he was able to bulldoze the ruins of the previous regime and bring in an all-new roster. That avenue of program overhaul isn't quite available to Stanford, who is in the process of rebuilding the old-fashioned way.
Next up is a trip to Florida State, who just cooled Cal off. Whatever our goals for this season might be, we don't absolutely have to win this game in order to meet them but it sure would be nice. The NCAA tourney was always mostly a pipe dream. If Kyle Smith actually takes this team to the tourney, he is God, or a sorcerer. 4 wins between now and the end of the season, ACC tourney included, is an NIT trip, which would be a very good outcome considering that we started out with a T-Rank of 102 on barttorvik.com at the beginning of the season.
"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only dream forever." -- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)