On March 27, 2021, I decided to make a prediction in response to this:
We just hired the Big 12’s Steve wojocjoezski.
When I made the prediction, I was definitely caught up in the excitement of a hire that was
better than I had expected. I was feeling
really optimistic about Shaka and where he might take the program. I acknowledged in the original post that it was probably overly optimistic and I almost stopped myself from posting it a couple of times. Here is the prediction I made
(with progress notes in red). It's still a work in progress -- and maybe MU and Shaka won't accomplish everything I predicted -- but I like how things have started.
What the hell...this may age badly, but I’ll give it a shot.
I predict that five years from today, the following will be true:
- MU will have finished in the top half of the Big East at least four times. (Two down, two to go. So far, 5th and 1st)
- MU will have finished top three in the Big East at least twice. (One down, one to go)
- MU will have played in the BET semi finals at least twice. (One down, one to go)
- MU will have played in the BET finals at least once. (Check)
- MU will have qualified for the NCAA tournament at least three times. (Two down, one to go)
- MU will have won at least three NCAA games. (One down, two to go)
- MU will have been at least a four seed. (Check)
- MU will have been ranked in at least two seasons. (Check)
- Most fans will be really happy with Shaka as our coach. ("Most?" I think yes.
- The post quoted above will have aged worse than this post. (So far, so good)
Overly optimistic. Probably. But we’ve got this.