Will it be football, mens basketball or baseball? They all seemed to be very disappointing this year and all things considered I have more faith in basketball than any other at the moment. I hope they all have much better years but this year was hard to swallow.
Which of big 3 sports will have better season next year?
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Good question.
I think baseball will bounce back and be an NCAA tournament team. If some of this year's freshmen continue to improve, I think there is a lot of good potential there that is only going to get better. We'll see what the recruiting class brings (and how many kids sign to play minor leauge baseball instead of coming to college... that's always the wildcard with baseball). Despite a bad year in 2015, I still believe Holbrook can get it done. Obviously another sub-par year next year would certainly be worriesome.
That being said, barring injuries, I think men's basketball has potential to build on this past year and get to the postseason. I think we should expect NIT at this point and see if the guys can do a little better. I think this was the hardest thing to build since the program has basically been bad for so long so it's tough to get those "next level" guys to commit ... but the Dozier kid should help, and from what I've seen and heard, the players love Martin, so I think there's a good chance to turn the corner.
Football - too many questions to make an educated guess right now. Still in rebuilding mode, but I can deal with that as long as the fundamentals on defense are improved (don't miss tackles etc.). Got spoiled by those three 11 win seasons, where anything else is a downer. Hopefully, it will be back on the upward trend this year.
Go Gamecocks!
I think baseball will bounce back and be an NCAA tournament team. If some of this year's freshmen continue to improve, I think there is a lot of good potential there that is only going to get better. We'll see what the recruiting class brings (and how many kids sign to play minor leauge baseball instead of coming to college... that's always the wildcard with baseball). Despite a bad year in 2015, I still believe Holbrook can get it done. Obviously another sub-par year next year would certainly be worriesome.
That being said, barring injuries, I think men's basketball has potential to build on this past year and get to the postseason. I think we should expect NIT at this point and see if the guys can do a little better. I think this was the hardest thing to build since the program has basically been bad for so long so it's tough to get those "next level" guys to commit ... but the Dozier kid should help, and from what I've seen and heard, the players love Martin, so I think there's a good chance to turn the corner.
Football - too many questions to make an educated guess right now. Still in rebuilding mode, but I can deal with that as long as the fundamentals on defense are improved (don't miss tackles etc.). Got spoiled by those three 11 win seasons, where anything else is a downer. Hopefully, it will be back on the upward trend this year.
Go Gamecocks!
Basketball, but that's not saying much. Football will be below .500. Baseball will likely be just like thus year. Basketball should be better than this past season, but I doubt we win 20 games unless the new guys can shoot.
Basketball finished with a winning record. Thornwell was injured throughout the year, Stroman & Notice dealt with sickness. We had 4 commitments but only 1 was able to contribute significantly. I wouldn't classify basketball as "very disappointing"
Cocky kebo57
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I think it will be basketball unfortunately. The other two don't show much promise too me anyway.
Basketball will be better for sure. I believe baseball will be much improved, despite this year I believe Martin will have an NCAA team. Football.......I am afraid we are in a 2005 sort of feel. Worst part is I think the inbreds in the upstate are going to beat us in the ground.
There should be improvement in all 3. It's more difficult to say with football and baseball but we couldn't be worse than we were last season. Basketball is a program that's definitely on the rise.
