Alright, I’m gonna be short and (not so) sweet here, and also publish this before the game even ends. Whether NC State wins this by 20, 30, or 40 makes little difference to me. The Irish turned in maybe the worst performance in the Mike Brey era today. It’s been obvious for awhile that this team can’t shoot. But what haven’t been problems are laziness, smarts, and grit. Those were all missing today in ways that I’ve honestly never seen from a Mike Brey coached team.
I’ll be shocked if Notre Dame bests NC State in a single statistical category today. They were thoroughly outplayed in every way. You can make your Bonzie Colson excuses when you lose close games and still fight your way through the schedule. You can make no excuses for today’s atrocious no-show against an at-best mediocre Wolfpack team.
The season is lost. The Tournament ain’t happening. There’s a decent chance Mike Brey has lost this team because what else is there to say? What other buttons are there to push? Two straight blowouts in the state of North Carolina speak volumes about where this team is at. Rock bottom.
Maybe Matt Farrell can turn around his nightmare senior season and lead this team to…something better than this. Maybe DJ Harvey’s eventual return can rejuvenate the lineup. Or maybe all this “valuable” experience starts to result in observable gains to these guys who have been thrown into some difficult roles.
But right now, this is all headed towards one of the worst conference seasons ever. What a depressing season.
Yea this is a tough one. After so many hard-fought close losses, it’s hard to blame them. However, after getting Farrell back you would have thought that would have energized them.
Well we really have to go on a run now beating BC, FSU, BC, Miami, Wake, and Pitt to get to 9 wins. I thought I saw Harvey might also be back after the FSU game (so maybe for UNC). Wake, BC, and Pitt are all around or below us in the ACC standings so that leaves FSU and Miami as home games that we need to win (and Miami might have Harvey back too).
I turned this game off, which I rarely do. But if they team has given up, why watch?
Sure seems like this team is two years away. Just a bummer after all the optimism coming into this season.
This team has been devastated by injuries like no team I have ever seen! They have been fighting and fighting. I don’t think it’s surprising that eventually they had a game like that when they have been putting forth so much effort. I still think they can make a run if Matt stays healthy and Mooney and DJ get healthy. As soon as we lost Mooney vs Duke, that game got out of hand and yesterday Mooney was injured and gave us nothing and it hurt. He has become very important! I’m not ready to give up on this team yet!