[winflop]

What frustrates me is that there is as much frustration about Shaw going 9-5 and winding up in the top third of the PAC-12 as there is about Haase, who looks likely to end in the bottom half of the Oac-12 and missing the NCAA tournament, again.

BC

Shaw wasn't only two recruiting classes into his tenure, playing with all freshmen & sophomores, and missing his best player from last year who left after signing windows closed. That being said, the quality of play this season is not good enough for the alleged talent on this roster, especially the sophomores. Davis is still a turnover machine and I still can't figure out what to make of da Silva but whatever Haase is trying to do with him it's not working. Okpala is the lone shining star of that top 20 class, and I won't be surprised if he enters the draft this year.

If Haase were in his fourth or fifth season with a roster full of veteran players he recruited and still playing like this, I expect the frustration would be at the same level it was with Shaw this year and with Dawkins in his last few years.

The bar for Haase is the Big Dance. Doesn't have to be a top seed, just an invitation. This program is nowhere close, and although I want to see it happen I struggle to see how that big of a gap is going to be closed in the next 13 months.

[winflop]

What frustrates me is that there is as much frustration about Shaw going 9-5 and winding up in the top third of the PAC-12 as there is about Haase, who looks likely to end in the bottom half of the Oac-12 and missing the NCAA tournament, again.

BC

Shaw wasn't only two recruiting classes into his tenure, playing with all freshmen & sophomores, and missing his best player from last year who left after signing windows closed. That being said, the quality of play this season is not good enough for the alleged talent on this roster, especially the sophomores. Davis is still a turnover machine and I still can't figure out what to make of da Silva but whatever Haase is trying to do with him it's not working. Okpala is the lone shining star of that top 20 class, and I won't be surprised if he enters the draft this year.

If Haase were in his fourth or fifth season with a roster full of veteran players he recruited and still playing like this, I expect the frustration would be at the same level it was with Shaw this year and with Dawkins in his last few years.

The bar for Haase is the Big Dance. Doesn't have to be a top seed, just an invitation. This program is nowhere close, and although I want to see it happen I struggle to see how that big of a gap is going to be closed in the next 13 months.