Brey's Prediction for the Season

[irishfan]

Scout.com: Regular Season Wrap

The day after Christmas, Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey evaluated the conference schedule that his team was going to face over the next nine and a half weeks and his conclusions shocked even those closest to him.

Brey’s wife Tish was the first to get the report.

“I’m going to practice on the 26th, I turned to Tish and I go, ‘9-9,’” recalled Brey. “She said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘9-9.’

“She said, ‘9-9, you won 14 league games last year.’ I said, ‘9-9, take a look at that thing.”

When Brey got to the basketball offices at Notre Dame his staff was even more surprised than his wife.

“You have young guys on the staff and they say, ‘9-9? We won 14 league games last year,’” Brey remembered. “‘9-9, fellas. Where do I sign?’ on December 26. I don’t want to sell us short, but I’ve been through the cycle of this league nine years now.”

 

[notredomer23]

so brey is a bad coach then settling for 9-9

 

[irishfan]

I think he knows that this team is no more talented than last years, and with the brutal schedule or the "TV Schedule" as he calls it, then it would be tough to go through conference play like they have the past two years. Not really a bad coach, and can't really say anything bad about this, considering he was pretty much dead on.