That is the point in basketball. You can schedule a lot of wins against cupcakes and play in a weak conference and have a great record. The goal should be to win the championship (for a NIT Bid) or the conference tournament which gives you a bid to The Big Dance. Being a "Memphis" might not be reasonable goal, but only doing once in 9 years is unacceptable. We are no where near "the reasonable goal of somewhere in between" after nine years.
How bout once in 40 years? Because the once was the same coach. I'm confused why we should expect our basketball program, to win a title every season when we have 1 in 4 decades? And want to run off the guy that did that lol. He is also the only coach that's played for a regular season conference title the last game in 4 decades too.
So he gets us to the ncaa and wins our first game, then, he's fired if we don't do it every year? Some of you all are somethin else. I believe we will win our fair share of sunbelt titles and should expect to do so, like wku did while they were here, but you have to give the man a chance. We were outgunned in the ole cusa. Winning it was a huge accomplishment, and we played for another, and 2020 was looking real good until they cancelled the tournament. Last year was a huge disappointment to lose to Texas state but they got hot and couldn't miss a 3 when they were one of the worst shooting teams in the league. It happens, it sucks, but if you fire a guy at Marshall that went 24-8, finished 2nd in the league missing the title by losing the last game, then you're nuts. If he goes 10-20 this year then fire him. Until then, I'll wait to see how we do.
It could be, and has been, way worse than Dan, who is hard to argue, is not at least our 2nd best coach since 1950. And huck cheated and ran a dirty program.