I guess that those don't compare to these losses this year to a NW team that finished 7th in the Big 10, Tech who finished 16-14, OU who finished 13-17. And I dont know if you remember but that Iona team went to the NCAA tournament, and Tech had Jarius Jackson and Martin Zeno.
3 road losses that don't make us look silly. and no they do not compare. Not even that close. NW was playing well and basically in their back yard. 3 stumbles. Not a good loss, but far from TT at home back then. TT wasn't even in the top half of the NCAA that year. That was flat out falling ono our face. Iona, was not that good either. Makeing the NCAA is great, but I'm prety sure they were an automatic qualifier for winning a terrible conference. A welfare bid doesn't make them a good team. Head to head ranked lower than NW, who was our worst lost this year.
But lets not forget about last year where we lost to Hawaii, Drake (Morgan never lost to them and McDermott is 1-3), Iowa, South Dakota State, Nebraska, Colorado.
Those may have been worse losses, I'll have to look at it, but the fact remains that he is eliminating those ND st, type losses. And at least the conf losses were on the road, weren't they. Just going off the top of my head, too, in that span wasn't Drake a 2 seed in the tourny one of those years. Its not in a vaccuum. But I say again, things are improving unlike then.
So what consistency does this team have? Consistently blowing games at the end? Consistently having terrible guard play? Losing to most of the terrible teams in the Big 12, but then beating Kstate on the road, consistent? Consistently losing home games (2-6 at home in the conference)?