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I'm sure that you all have been following the fortunes of the Central Florida Golden Knights MBB team. Their 1st year HC Johnny Dawkins has turned the program around and led them to . . . . the NIT.  Hope the Central Florida fans get used to it.

You're kidding, right?  UCF went 21-11 (11-7) this year after going 13-18 (4-14), 12-18(5-13), and 12-18(6-12) in the prior three years [we did worse than last year].  They beat a top-20 team [we didn't], they beat Memphis twice in a row after losing all but 1 of the previous 21 matches [we lost to Arizona by 39].  they lost to SMU by 11 [we lost by 22].  They led the nation in field goal percentage defense [we...didn't].  They made the semifinals of the AAC tournament for the first time ever.

And, of course, he did all that "without his guys."

As wildly optimistic as everyone here seems to be about the future of our team under our new coach  -- given that we were uniformly WORSE than last year in almost every respect, in stark contrast to the uniformly BETTER results that "Mr. NIT" accomplished -- the UCF fans would seem to have infinitely better justification for feeling optimistic than we do.

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I'm sure that you all have been following the fortunes of the Central Florida Golden Knights MBB team. Their 1st year HC Johnny Dawkins has turned the program around and led them to . . . . the NIT.  Hope the Central Florida fans get used to it.

You're kidding, right?  UCF went 21-11 (11-7) this year after going 13-18 (4-14), 12-18(5-13), and 12-18(6-12) in the prior three years [we did worse than last year].  They beat a top-20 team [we didn't], they beat Memphis twice in a row after losing all but 1 of the previous 21 matches [we lost to Arizona by 39].  they lost to SMU by 11 [we lost by 22].  They led the nation in field goal percentage defense [we...didn't].  They made the semifinals of the AAC tournament for the first time ever.

And, of course, he did all that "without his guys."

As wildly optimistic as everyone here seems to be about the future of our team under our new coach  -- given that we were uniformly WORSE than last year in almost every respect, in stark contrast to the uniformly BETTER results that "Mr. NIT" accomplished -- the UCF fans would seem to have infinitely better justification for feeling optimistic than we do.