[BostonCard]

What do we even work on in practice? We don't get any better. This team looks worse than opening weekend. And yes I know all about Sayer being out. It would not matter in most of these matches we get absolutely thumped in.

We are likely looking at another 0-3 noncompetitive sweep. 

I think Matt Squeri made the point in football, but I think it probably applies across all sports; by the time the season starts, performance is probably going to be baked in.  You pretty much are what you have out there plus whatever you were able to figure out over the offseason, and over decades of watching across multiple sports, I think with a few exceptions (the biggest of which is when we switched from a 6-2 to a 5-1 in one of our championship seasons) this is largely true.  Every once in a while, something clicks, or you find a solution to a glaring problem, by benching a player that has really been struggling and bringing in a high ceiling freshman who proves she is readier than you thought.  But most of the time, these are the exceptions that I think prove the rule.

UNC is a ranked team, we are playing on the road, and we are not a top-10 team.  I hope we do better than an 0-3 non-competitive sweep, but that is going to be a possibility against any decent team on the road and against any good team anywhere.  I wish we were better, but we aren't.

BC

[BostonCard]

What do we even work on in practice? We don't get any better. This team looks worse than opening weekend. And yes I know all about Sayer being out. It would not matter in most of these matches we get absolutely thumped in.

We are likely looking at another 0-3 noncompetitive sweep. 

I think Matt Squeri made the point in football, but I think it probably applies across all sports; by the time the season starts, performance is probably going to be baked in.  You pretty much are what you have out there plus whatever you were able to figure out over the offseason, and over decades of watching across multiple sports, I think with a few exceptions (the biggest of which is when we switched from a 6-2 to a 5-1 in one of our championship seasons) this is largely true.  Every once in a while, something clicks, or you find a solution to a glaring problem, by benching a player that has really been struggling and bringing in a high ceiling freshman who proves she is readier than you thought.  But most of the time, these are the exceptions that I think prove the rule.

UNC is a ranked team, we are playing on the road, and we are not a top-10 team.  I hope we do better than an 0-3 non-competitive sweep, but that is going to be a possibility against any decent team on the road and against any good team anywhere.  I wish we were better, but we aren't.

BC