Being home for the holidays certainly is something you take for granted as you get older. This year I have been trying to spend as much time with my parents as possible, and I recommend that each of you do the same.

During the game last night, my mom remarked to my dad that we only seem to have freshman/sophomore or seniors, on the team, and I suppose, that is something that I realized, but never really thought about. So I decided to look up the recruiting class that would be juniors/redshirt sophomores... more after the jump.

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I started writing a reply to the fanpost labeled "From #1 to 1 and done" but my response was way too long, so I decided to just create my own fanpost.

I am not sure if anyone remembers Wake Forest of 2008-9, but they were a team very much like our own.  Meaning they were a streetballing team that relied on young players performing well to be great.  They did look great during the beginning of the season, if they played well, they could beat any team including eventual national champ UNC.  They started 16-0 but after they reached number 1, they basically fell apart, and lost 5 of their next 9 games.

Then they kind of righted the ship towards the end of the season, but lost their first game in the ACC tournament, and then lost their first round game in the tournament (the 4 v 13 game).

I am still cautiously optimistic about this team, and I think that most teams still would really like to avoid us if at all possible in the tournament.  However, if we keep playing like we have been, and end up a 4 or 5 seed, I could see us losing in the first round to a cohesive, mid-major, senior laden, team like Cornell.  Much like Cleveland State was able to beat Wake last year.

To all the people who now claim the season, is over, and only remark on how terrible we look: you are missing the point, and are way too reactionary.  We are actually not in bad shape at all, while a 2 seed in houston is not really probable, it is quite possible.  Something could finally click in the freshman's heads which leads us to win the remaining games we have in the regular season, and then win the big 12 tourney(or possibly runner-up).  This team is still amazingly talented, I just hope we can learn from the lesson of Wake Forest, and not repeat their mistakes.

Just read this article on "the world leader". 

If I was thinking purely for the conference I would think Tuberville would be better than Briles.  He has proven to be a great coach, and would be another big "name" for the conference.  I honestly did not think he would be interested in the Tech job.

However, if I were to view this as it relates to the longhorns I think that I would have to prefer Briles to Tuberville.  One I dont think he is as good of a coach, and two he does make Baylor a semi-credible foe in the big 12.  I doubt whoever Baylor would bring in to replace him could maximize RG3 in the years to come as well as Baylor's future potential like Briles.  [Side note, I think it is absolutely absurd that some tech fans think that Robert Griffin III would follow Briles to Lubbock.]

What do yall think?

Also if you vote other, please list who you would prefer.

I need some help with a basketball dilemma.  I am not sure if I am being a super homer on this or not.  One of my roommates and I always argue about all things sports.  He is always making very bold statements that he cant always back up with facts.  However, the sport he knows best is basketball.  I attribute this to him growing up in Chapel Hill with a father who is a professor at Duke.  He is a graduate of Wake Forest.

Anyways, this year has been very rough on me, considering the seasons both teams have had (needless to say, I didn't believe him when he said wake would be in the top 15 all year).  We always get into random hypothetical conversations, one of which has to do with sexy dexy. 

He said if we played wake dexter would get blocked early and often, and this led to his initial bold statement that pittman would get blocked 5 times against wake (he has since backed down to 3 or 4).  He claims that Al-Farouq would give side help and end up blocking dex 2 or 3 times himself.

For the life of me I cant remember ever seeing Dexter get blocked even once this year (that is, if you dont count the rim rejecting him multiple times against kansas)...

I live in DC so I can only watch the games shown nationally, so I'm looking for some other opinions on this.  Does anyone remember seeing Dex get blocked this year?  Am I overrating his ability??