Michigan: 28th and 47th pick - 15 conference wins
Washington: 20th and 43rd pick - 15 conference wins
Florida St: 27th and 48th pick - 13 conference wins
Those aren't exactly lottery picks.
Listen, I'm not saying Prohm sucks but he underperformed in comparison to coaches who had similar talent levels last year.
Game scores for last year...
I completely agree with you that things got away from Prohm last February. We only have bits and pieces of what happened, but it sounded like the guys let some of the talk about their talent get to their heads and started playing for themselves instead of the team. The results on the court bore that out. After the practice fight and the WVU game where Shayok did not play, trust me, I was ready to abandon ship, too. I was blowing up an inflatable dragon pool toy and about to swing away from that sinking ship as quickly as I could. Then we played well against Texas Tech at home (even if we lost) and won it all in KC.
I went to the Tulsa game... They played hard and together. Ohio State was just slightly better that night, and we had no answer for Wesson pounding us.
If things do not get away from him in February, then we probably accomplish basically most of the things the crowd faults last year for for some reason.
My response to this...
-- Well, that month sucked, but we "got it back" and righted the ship somehow.
-- Prohm is still bringing on plenty of talent, and his next class might be his best.
-- Judge the season from preseason expectations and not expectations at the end of January, and I think last year was pretty successful.
-- I hope the program collectively learned something after that month from hell.
I think your analysis of the relative talent level of the program might be a little arbitrary. I would like to see something more systemic. Putting us on a list with somebody like Duke and the talent that they had/have is kind of silly, though.