10 Years Ago.....

[gofurman]

Kool Aid and Fetenayl is not a good combination

Agreed. Neither is NIL and the portal -

[gofurman]

The past ten years have been great! Just imagine all we accomplish in another ten years!!!!!

Trying to imagine what is realistically possible, considering what I know and considering what is stated by the posters after you in this thread other than the one (you again) that just entered a big "100" whatever that means.

We celebrate our past and we look forward to our future...
Regardless of what is considered most 'realistically' possible ect., the only mindset worth having is that there is no limit to what can be achieved...

The only mindset worth having is that we just do the best we can.
That does not mean we abandon having goals that a realistic.
It is vitally important to have goals that are realistic.
What is realistic IS an important and valid question.
So, considering everything known and expected, including the impact of NIL and of conference alignments and likely power conference consolidations, what realistically the best can we can do?
Are we left to just dream and wonder, with no realism inserted into what is predictable for the coming 10 years?
Yes?
No?
I really want to know what people think - not about the fact that I am asking these question, but what, if any, considered answers to these questions there may be, beyond trite sayings and platitudes.

Right. With NIL and portal stealing future Pegues from the SoCon ( equally from each team like Achor Achor)… best can hope is win SoCon and get to dance. MAYBE win a madness game every 10 years at best?

Just my thought. Goal every year is win SoCon weekend. Get in March madness

Winning. Conference stays same as NIL doesn’t affect it. Or affects everyone equally. It’s us vs the big boys where we get hurt w NIL

[apaladin]

Not to be technical but really only 7 of the last 10:season have been good/great. One season, 2015 we lost two thirds of the games. 2016 and 2024 were barely .500. As for the upcoming season I think 20 regular season wins would be outstanding.

[Choir Boy]

Kool Aid and Fetenayl is not a good combination

Agreed. Neither is NIL and the portal -

Kool Aid is your tremendous enthusiasm
Commendable, but misguided and highly unlikely

Fentanyl is the NCAAA…raping college sports. FU BBall is morphing into Auburn’s JV team. Anytime we get a good player or two we are going to get poached $$ is the new name of the game And we are a bunch of broke back Paladins with a lack of leadership at the top.

[soconjohn]

As long as Furman has the best coach in the league, they'll be good year-in and year-out...I'm still waiting for some of those Bob McKillop coached Davidson teams to be bad...It's not going to happen lol...The degree of good, however, is dependent on important details, but the coach is good enough to put you close to the top of the mountain each season...Getting back to the peak of it is the inexact science, however....That's all players, and in basketball at our level, it usually has everything to do with how you defend.

[FU Hoopla]

Not to be technical but really only 7 of the last 10:season have been good/great. One season, 2015 we lost two thirds of the games. 2016 and 2024 were barely .500. As for the upcoming season I think 20 regular season wins would be outstanding.

I basically used '10 years ago' because that is when we had that awful record and then made the surprise run to the SoCon Championship game which kinda sparked the program moving forward...

Here is each final record for the past 9 seasons:
2016 19-16
2017 23-12
2018 23-10
2019 25-8
2020 25-7
2021 16-9
2022 22-12
2023 28-8
2024 17-16