So fifteen people predicted Hop would win four games.

[cliftonparksufan]

Of course that was supposed to be all ACC games. A lot of predictions were fairly conservative but many predicted at least 20 wins. We shall see.

 

[pearl31]

If JB gets this team to 20 the queen should knight him

 

[SaltLakeOrange]

If JB gets this team to 20 the queen should knight him

If he gets this team to 20 wins, I'm buying the first round!

 

[DonLightfoot]

I wasn't one of those fifteen. At the start of the season I think I said 5-4, but then had a more optimistic 6-3 after Atlantis.

Considering our overall lack of size and our talent obviously over-rated early on , in hindsight could we really expect more than 4 wins in that stretch? My disappointment is the fact I saw very little approach difference between Hop and JB. I would have thought there would be some interesting minor changes as a test of Hop's personal ideas.

 

[Rage4CUSE]

I wasn't one of those fifteen. At the start of the season I think I said 5-4, but then had a more optimistic 6-3 after Atlantis.

Considering our overall lack of size and our talent obviously over-rated early on , in hindsight could we really expect more than 4 wins in that stretch? My disappointment is the fact I saw very little approach difference between Hop and JB. I would have thought there would be some interesting minor changes as a test of Hop's personal ideas.

The only difference I saw was Hop actually played 8 people against inferior competition. That's about it.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

The only difference I saw was Hop actually played 8 people against inferior competition. That's about it.

In Hop's defense, both DC2 and Chino played well against inferior competition, but not as well in prime time.

 

[pearl31]

Come on, he was never going to deviate in this stint from what he thought JB would do.

 

[Hoov50]

Come on, he was never going to deviate in this stint from what he thought JB would do.

I agree, it would be like a football coach going from running the ball 50 times a game in Weeks 1-3 and then for Weeks 4-6 passing the ball 50 times, before going back to running the ball for Weeks 7-12.

Had the suspension been the first 9 games of the season, I suspect we would have seen more of Coach Hopkins's own philosophies shine through. But no assistant coach in the world is going to make major changes for 9 games once the season has begun.

 

[Jasoncuse]

I predicted 16-15 overall with a 7-11 ACC record and 3 Hop W's. I'm beginning to think that was overly generous. Yuck. I don't see how this team can go 7-8 in ACC play the rest of the way.