This is exactly what I predicted yesterday, including the "fire Haase" comments. He ain't going anywhere.
Losing on the road to the 3rd-best team in the conference (LOOK AT HOW WELL OREGON IS DOING) by pretty much exactly the Vegas line is not "the sky is falling."
Let's save that for losing a gimme, which we have many chances at from here on out. So far there are no real bad losses (i.e. losses to teams definitively worse than us) on the season. Santa Clara is NET #67 and on the bubble, by the way.
If the team loses @ Oregon State (AWFUL), vs. Utah (bad), vs. Colorado (biggest toss-up remaining), @ Cal (AWFUL), or @ASU (bad but may be a trap game) then I feel the crowing is more valid. This final 6-game stretch will determine once again the validity of the patented "Haase February collapse." Of course we will lose @ Arizona, a potential Final Four team, so it's really the other 5 games in the stretch.
Oh, and the team was pre-season picked 9th in conference, and basically everyone comes back next year.
Losing on the road to the 3rd-best team in the conference (LOOK AT HOW WELL OREGON IS DOING) by pretty much exactly the Vegas line is not "the sky is falling."
Let's save that for losing a gimme, which we have many chances at from here on out. So far there are no real bad losses (i.e. losses to teams definitively worse than us) on the season. Santa Clara is NET #67 and on the bubble, by the way.
If the team loses @ Oregon State (AWFUL), vs. Utah (bad), vs. Colorado (biggest toss-up remaining), @ Cal (AWFUL), or @ASU (bad but may be a trap game) then I feel the crowing is more valid. This final 6-game stretch will determine once again the validity of the patented "Haase February collapse." Of course we will lose @ Arizona, a potential Final Four team, so it's really the other 5 games in the stretch.
Oh, and the team was pre-season picked 9th in conference, and basically everyone comes back next year.