a season ranked. Well, he has now. Finished ranked #11 this season.
https://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=23200337
Another interesting poll about how long it would take Kalani to finish ranked, not a lot of optimism here either.
https://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=22493757
Look, I know the schedule was watered down this year. Looking at 2017-2019 under Kalani we struggled a TON against average G5 teams. Losses to Umass, ECU, Toledo, USF, Fresno St, Hawaii, Utah State, Northern Illinois, and so on during that span of 3 season.
Kalani in 2020 had this team ready to play with anyone. I am really hoping 2020 wasn't an exception under his tenure, but will become more of a trend. I'd love to see Kalani consistently start to win 80% of his G5 games. Those are programs that we SHOULDN'T be losing to very often outside of Boise State and a few others. I'm curious to see how we do in our 7 P5 games next season, I feel decently confident that we will win about half of them as most are fairly average programs.