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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5359360, member: 405"]
Let's start with the obvious - next year is a failure before the season even gets underway if our season ticket sales drop below 10,000.

How much winning do you think Autry needs to get us back to 20,000 people showing up for games instead of 5-8,000 in person like we're seeing right now.

Do you think fans are going to come storming back in numbers for a bubble team?

Do you think Autry is suddenly going to learn how to coach defense?

Let's just talk about what we're hearing.

Let's say Donnie Freeman and Choppa Moore leave, which seems quite possible.

Eddie, Taylor, Carlos and Davis are all gone.

Our potential returnees are Starling (probable), Bell (unlikely), Cuffe and Petar Majstorovic.  I can't imagine using a scholarship again on Chance Westry.

Dasher says we only have enough NIL to get 4 or 5 players from the portal.

That leaves Starling, Cuffe and Anthony as our guards right now.
Sadiq White as the only forward, unless Freeman is back.
Petar is our only body at Center.

OK, so where do we shop?  We clearly need a starting center and a starting PG.  We need another 2 forwards if Freeman leaves.  That's our whole enchilada for the portal.

That's like 9 or 10 guys.  That's not enough to get through a season healthy.

I can't see Moore staying with Anthony coming in.  I would hope Freeman stays, and some say he will, but him shutting down his whole season the way he did doesn't bode well.

Neither did Red's handling of him.  In 14 games, Freeman played about half the game [U]or less[/U] in 11 of them.  Not what most Mickey Dee's are expecting, I'll bet.

I have a hard time seeing that group even being in the middle of the pack in the ACC, let alone having a shot at the tournament bubble - unless you're talking about the ACC Tournament Bubble again, like we are this year.
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