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2026 season doesnt look good.
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Even if Brad gets transfers, the team is highly unlikely to do any better than the 2025 team did. Looking like it’ll be a rebuild and unlikely NCAA tournament team. Man it stinks that the 2025 team crapped the bed this year in the tournament. It completely killed the momentum the program had going for it.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:06 PM
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:09 PM
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As your profile picture indicates I hope we can sit back and “let Brad cook” 🧑🍳.
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Rival Killer [2898]
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:50 PM
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I’m down for that Mr 803, 29841 or 29860? Love the green jackets.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
Mar 31, 2025, 9:03 PM
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Hope Tiger baseball cooks at the home of the Green Jackets, SRP Stadium, on Tuesday as well. Go Tigers!
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Rival Killer [2898]
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 9:18 PM
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Keep cooking! Bon appetite!
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:17 PM
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How much money has he made at Clemson and how many good seasons has he had? He is the Tommy Bowden of basketball, just good enough not to get fired but there will come a time. Probably soon
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Ultimate Tiger [33997]
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His win % wouldve gotten him fired in football and baseball.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:32 PM
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I guess Clemson being a stepping stone for Barnes and Purnell makes it hard to pull the trigger on a B level coach.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:38 PM
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27 wins for a Clemson basketball team tells me the force is not with you.
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110%er [3947]
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 9:08 PM
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It’s more about how the season ended. 2025 team filled up on cupcakes 🧁. Not interested in hearing how they also beat Kentucky, Duke, and UNC. (Team wasn’t even close to that level at seasons end) Had Brownell had the boys ready to play we’d be celebrating the season. That one game against Mcneese soured the entire season for many.
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Tiger Titan [50233]
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You arent pleased with the three most recent seasons?
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Mar 31, 2025, 9:07 PM
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Three 20+ win seasons.
The most wins in a 3 year span in school history.
Elite 8 last year.
Program records for overall wins and ACC wins this year.
Your post makes it sound like we are coming off a bad year or haven’t been able to be consistently successful lately.
Are you one of the one who also ignores the most recent football seasons and keeps talking about the 2010s?
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110%er [3947]
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Re: You arent pleased with the three most recent seasons?
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Mar 31, 2025, 9:24 PM
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So let’s get this straight—2023 ended with a humiliating loss to Morehead St. in the NIT after some embarrassing quad 4 losses kept them out of the NCAA tournament. 2024? Inconsistent as ever, losing games they had no business losing, but credit where it’s due—they caught fire at the right time and had a historic Elite 8 run. That’s worth celebrating.
Now, 2025? The ultimate “shoulda, coulda, woulda” season. Most wins in school and ACC history? Cool. But in a down ACC, let’s not act like that’s some insane accomplishment. Beating Kentucky, Duke, and UNC were great moments, but when it mattered most? They crumbled. The ACC Tournament was a disaster, and scoring 13 points in a first half with a veteran squad and a coach fresh off a contract extension is flat-out unacceptable. Accountability should’ve been demanded, but instead, we’re just supposed to pretend this was some flawless season?
And as for my take that next year’s team—loaded with transfers—faces an uphill battle making the NCAA tournament? That’s not “negative,” that’s just facts.
Now, to your football comparison—absolute joke of an argument. Clemson Football is a proven powerhouse with multiple national titles and routine conference championships. Clemson Basketball? Can’t even sniff a conference title, let alone a natty. Stop acting like they belong in the same conversation. Without football, basketball wouldn’t even have the resources it does. So yeah, let’s keep it real—until Brownell or anyone else puts a real trophy in that case, let’s not pretend this program is on remotely the same level.
Try again.
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No, the comparison is for the ridiculous logic on these boards.
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Mar 31, 2025, 9:52 PM
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The average TNet poster loves Clemson football and defends it at all costs, while they dislike Clemson basketball and criticize it at all costs.
Due to our basketball program seeing improvement the last few years, and our football program seeing decline the last few years, these posters can’t focus on the most recent seasons.
No, instead they emphasize things that happened last decade to bolster their argument that our football program is awesome and our basketball program stinks.
Peruse a few dozen threads here and you’ll see many posts about our basketball program being mediocre, with references to the early part of Brownell’s 15 years here with little to no mention of program records being set last year and this year.
You’ll also see little mention of our football team’s poor record against the SEC recently, or its bad record against the best teams on our schedule in recent years. Instead, you will see comments about winning “natties” last decade and how we were a top program along with Alabama.
You see these ridiculous posts every day, all because some people lack the capacity to actually complement our basketball program while acknowledging our football program’s shortcomings.
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Re: No, the comparison is for the ridiculous logic on these boards.
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Mar 31, 2025, 10:20 PM
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Look, I’m passionate about both, but let’s not kid ourselves—it’s really not that complicated.
Clemson won its last national title in 2019 (2018 season), not some distant past. Meanwhile, Clemson Basketball? Still waiting to even sniff that kind of success.
Swinney and Clemson Football: 9 conference titles (2011, 2015-2020, 2022, 2024).
Brownell and Clemson Basketball: 0 conference titles.
See the difference?
No one dominates forever—football’s success won’t be a national title every year. But Swinney took Clemson to the mountaintop. Nobody stays there forever, but at least he’s been there. Meanwhile, Brownell is still climbing, hoping, and praying to even see the peak.
And yeah, Clemson Football needs to show up better in big games. That’s fair. But let’s not ignore the fact that Basketball folded hard when it mattered most. Brownell got all the support in the world this season, and it ended in embarrassment. Nobody should be happy with that. We all wanted more, and instead, we got that.
So yeah, Clemson is a football school. Always has been. Maybe one day Basketball catches up, but until there’s a trophy that says National Champion in Littlejohn, let’s stop acting like they’re playing the same game.
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We should all be able to acknowledge the very disappointing loss to McNeese
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Mar 31, 2025, 10:37 PM
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while also having the ability to step back and see that the season was still an outstanding one.
Otherwise, we are saying that one game out of 30+ defines the season. That’s ridiculous.
Comparing conference and national titles is silly considering the fact that one sport already had a history of that kind of success when Dabo took over, while basketball hasn’t ever had it. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t strive to be elite in basketball, but that isn’t going to come as easily at a school that clearly prioritizes football and has a much easier road to ACC success in football than it does in basketball.
Also, if you’re going to say “Brownell folded hard when it mattered most” when he lost by 2 points, what do you say about Dabo losing the most important game of the season by 14? Did he fold hard when it mattered most as well?
At least Brad beat the two best teams on our schedule this year (Duke and Kentucky). He didn’t fold them, did he?
And yes, it’s been a while since we were elite in football. Thankfully we are still good and have a relatively easy path to the ACC Championship Game every year unless we totally crap the bed.
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Re: We should all be able to acknowledge the very disappointing loss to McNeese
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Mar 31, 2025, 10:50 PM
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So let me get this straight—you want us to just shrug off an embarrassing loss to McNeese because the rest of the season was “outstanding”? Sorry, but when a veteran squad with sky-high expectations crashes that hard, yeah, people are going to be pissed. One game may not define an entire season, but when that one game is a historic faceplant, it absolutely matters.
And let’s talk about this “comparing titles is silly” argument—nah, what’s silly is acting like basketball should get a pass just because it’s never been great. That’s exactly the problem. The standard for Clemson Football is championships, while the standard for Clemson Basketball is… what, exactly? Participation trophies? Moral victories? If you want to be elite, act like it. Don’t just use football’s dominance as an excuse for why basketball shouldn’t be held to a higher standard.
And as for your Dabo vs. Brownell argument—yes, losing by 14 in a major football game is bad. But here’s the difference: Dabo has won at the highest level. He’s actually hoisted trophies. Brownell? Still waiting. And sure, Brownell beat Duke and Kentucky—huge wins. But then he turned around and laid an egg when it mattered most. You don’t get a free pass for cherry-picked victories when you choke in the biggest moments.
And yeah, football isn’t at its absolute peak right now, but guess what? It’s still good enough to be in the championship conversation every year. Can’t say the same for basketball. So let’s stop pretending they’re on the same playing field. Football expects greatness—basketball needs to stop settling for “almost.”
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Re: We should all be able to acknowledge the very disappointing loss to McNeese
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Apr 1, 2025, 2:39 AM
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The simple test of his sincerity about how this season should be perceived would be “if Duke’s season ends next weekend or after a National Championship is it a disappointment because they lost to Clemson?” Of course not, which is why Clemson should hang nothing on a regular season victory over them. And JK was the first to argue, when Brad was running up a record streak of seasons with losses to sub 200 NET and RPi brake teams, “that’s just basketball!” So when Brad loses in the regular it’s just the nature of the game and you’re playing for the bigger picture (post season) but when Brad loses in the post season we should simply take delight in those regular season victories even though they don’t really mean anything by his own insistence.
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HTHIA...most of TNet disliking you does not equal hating basketball. Brads been
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Apr 1, 2025, 10:33 AM
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here for so long that of course, he has the most wins and the most losses. These last 2 years have been good, and Brad has done ok, but you acting as if BB is even close to FB is laughable.
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Re: You arent pleased with the three most recent seasons?
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It's like this...basketball had a good season, but the ending was nothing anyone can be proud of. I can't remember a team playing so poorly. And, this comparison with football means absolutely nothing. Can we drop it, please?
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Are you proud of our football teams loss by 14 in the playoffs?
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Mar 31, 2025, 10:38 PM
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If 2 points in basketball is so bad, isn’t 14 in football pretty bad too?
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Re: Are you proud of our football teams loss by 14 in the playoffs?
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I’m surprised you need to hear this, but basketball and football use a different scoring system. It’s really meaningless to compare them by raw score. McNeese St started the second half of the game with a 93% chance of winning and Clemson never narrowed that gap despite making it look close on the scoreboard. Texas entered the second half with a 97% chance of winning and Clemson cut that to 87% (one possession game) with 11 minutes remaining. From a statistical standpoint the football game was more competitive. Unless of course you hate facts and data.
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Re: Are you proud of our football teams loss by 14 in the playoffs?
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THEY ARE BOTH CLEMSON TEAMS, NOT RIVALS. THE TWO COACHES ARE NOT RIVALS.
I support ALL Clemson teams.
Judge, you are intelligent enough to know that, based on regular-season results, the basketball team was more successful. The post-season expectations were higher. The fact that the football team won the ACC Championship and made it into the playoffs was quite an accomplishment. Losing to a team like Texas is not comparable to losing to McNeese State.
Enough said.
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Re: Are you proud of our football teams loss by 14 in the playoffs?
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Apr 1, 2025, 6:08 AM
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Comparing losing to that Texas team in Texas in the CFP to losing to Mcneese st. in the first round of the NCAA tournament is laughable. That’s like Clemson losing to Maryland in football.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:18 PM
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and the 2025 team got a jump on the crappy 26 season they way the screwed psst season
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:31 PM
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It's not likely to get more wins, but they could easily be better come tournament time. 2026 might be a great year. They will have a lot of potential. It's going to be exciting.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:48 PM
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What potential? We have no players at the moment.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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Mar 31, 2025, 8:50 PM
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We have 6 very talented players and will have a bunch more. The players we add in the portal will be proven. It's going to be great.
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Re: We dont need players yet.
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Mar 31, 2025, 9:31 PM
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“We don’t need players”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That may be the best one yet.
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This season hasnt even ended
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Mar 31, 2025, 9:53 PM
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for some teams. 
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Apparently those teams need players.
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Apr 1, 2025, 11:30 AM
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Clemson not so much.
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Laughably tone deaf.
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Apr 1, 2025, 11:29 AM
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If not a bit arrogant.
"Hey come to Clemson. I mean, we don't really need you. But come anyway."
SMH.
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First, i am looking forward to seeing....
Mar 31, 2025, 10:37 PM
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who we get from the portal, secondly, the new recruits coming in, and thirdly, hoping we can blend some chemistry and funtime hustle to overcome some of our inexperience and youth....go tigers, and should be fun to watch the team develop if we are patient...
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
Mar 31, 2025, 9:14 PM
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Grok is predicting 17-14 record, 9-11 in ACC play
Whatever that's worth... at least a laugh
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
Mar 31, 2025, 9:17 PM
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Who is Grok?
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Grok Lunardi***
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what if we don't have as succesful of a regular season
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Mar 31, 2025, 10:32 PM
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but slip into the tournament as a 10 seed but win the 1st round. Then what will you say?
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Re: what if we don't have as succesful of a regular season
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It would be unlikely to make the tournament if they struggled during the regular season due to the current state of the ACC. We would have to perform to even make it due to these circumstances. However, for arguments sake, if they struggled in the regular season, back door their way into the tournament and win a NCAA tournament game then it would be a success.
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Re: what if we don't have as succesful of a regular season
Mar 31, 2025, 10:56 PM
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Nobody said struggled. May have less wins though.
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Mar 31, 2025, 10:33 PM
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Momentum means nothing in this new CBB era with NIL.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
Mar 31, 2025, 10:58 PM
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Then a hope “we too deep” outta the transfer portal.
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Re: 2026 season doesnt look good.
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We can all enjoy the next 6 years. 🙄
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Doesn't help that it's a Sellers market right now in the portal
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this time around, and lo and behold our needs there are greater than ever.
Hopeful that Brad will bring in some younger guys to mesh in with the recruits we still have along with a few seniors / grads. It's no surprise that this heightened stretch here has been led by homegrown seniors - PJ Hall, Chase Hunter, Ian Schieffelin. Hopeful we will still have Dillon around to fill part of that necessity next season. After that though the well is dry.
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