The way I see it, this team improves empirically. Losses to Pace, Michigan, and Dayton are building blocks in correcting the things that prevent you from becoming a good team. In other words, losses in this case are ironically part of the process to improve.
If we simply look only at losses, Pace was a nightmare, thankfully an exhibition, Michigan much better but showed our weaknesses especially on defense. Dayton a much better performance against a pretty decent team but we lost down the stretch due to a porous defense.
Between those losses, we've seen an improvement game to game. Unlike CMA's OOC schedule to fatten a record with a weak SOS, we are witnessing some of CRPs best coaching. Even 5th year seniors are being taught and corrected individually. As a unit, this team is slowly transforming into what I believe will be Big East ready in one month.
The league is so damned tough at the top half, weak at the bottom, and in a few days have seen improvements that make sky is falling 9th place BE predictions seem silly.
No predictions from me except to warn that mopping up against the bottom 4 teams in the league will still require we amass some important quad 1 wins against the top 6.
Fun stuff to watch, and if i didn't have season tix, I'd be snapping up as many cheap stubhub tix as I could. Even the weaker OOC games have been good fan experiences, and eagerly look forward to each next game.
