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Next year is going to be a real battle to make the tournament again, I'm afraid.

The ACC is going to be the toughest basketball conference in history next year.

No, it is a painful read, particularly damaging is this:

"... The soft-spoken coach did more with less in College Station than he’s done thus far in fertile College Park, where first-class talent is returning in the aftermath of the Williams regime.

Turgeon’s talent repository this year was better than NIT quality. At his disposal: a lottery pick, coveted transfer, veteran glue guy and a host of young talent underscored by a heralded freshman class. At least two dozen coaches in the field of 68 would swap rosters for that assortment of players..."

Why do you think Len, with his obvious physical weakness, is going to "dominate" in the NBA against real men?

Then that will be recognized by the selection committee, and the ACC will get many teams selected. It's happened before with other conferences.

the ACC is better than the Big 12

It is now but it wasn't when Turgeon was there.

Not really. The ACC has only one team in the top 25. Earlier in the year it may have looked that way but not now.

Thanks. I missed Miami. I still think the Big 12 overall is better than the ACC.

They're pretty close but the ACC has the edge in the conference RPI rankings.

RPI rankings aside, the ACC has always been a tougher conference in the sense that there are many tougher away games/atmospheres. You need to bring it every day in the ACC in a way that you don't in the Big 12. Even the better basketball schools in the Big 12 (I'm thinking Oklahoma, OSU, Texas, A&M, Tech under Knight) are way bigger football schools that basketball schools. Never been the case in the ACC. I think this shows in the way the entire team under Turgeon doesn't quite bring it the way they need to every single night, especially on the road.

yea like the honey badger... i mean i'm sure stoglin wasnt given 3 4 5 or even 6 chances to get his shit together. You are a real jackass if you cant stop smoking pot when millions of dollars are on the line.

Like isaid, I'm not one to state how it should have gone down...apparently you've reached your own conclusions to be very judgmental. Now he may have failed 6 drug tests! Listen, the lifestyle is there and some people don't view it the same way as others. Gary may have not viewed it as turge does. We had a buddy who workd the front desk at the greenbelt hotel where all the teams playing the bullets would stay. The request for dope was regular. The all American I spoke of...a lottery pick. I'm saying Stoglin got blindsided, but lets not pretend the policy is applied all the time to all cases. I think your naive if you think programs all take that type of approach.

Yeah,you'd have to be pretty blind to not see that Len has the skills and the potential. It's the coaches job to get the production out of his players and we all know Len had the ability to be more productive than he was. Your point doesn't address that.