Which unranked power teams should improve this year? Who is still on the hot seat?

[jcgatennismom]

Last year, Clemson, Miami, and Auburn coaches were listed as on the hot seat, and now all of those teams have new coaches. Arizona was another unranked power team that now has a new coach. In addition, Tennessee and Louisville were unranked Power teams. Along with TN, AL was listed on the hot seat list. Considering all the transfers out AL had this summer, it should be an interesting year for the team.

Based on fall regionals and invitationals, new recruits, new coaches, etc which teams do you think will improve this year and which will still struggle? Which Power teams lost a lot of seniors and will have to rebuild this year? Any coaches to add to hot seat? Will Duke rise from its abysmal 75th place finish last year?

 

[Nacho]

For Improved I would say Stanford, Arkansas, Indiana, Notre Dame, and Texas, maybe even Tennessee...They were all out of the top 20, or have fallen out the last year and I think will be back in the mix.

For hot seat I would say Alabama, Florida, Baylor, Duke, NC State. I pick these because they have a passionate fanbase, a history of success and the pressure to succeed immediately is there. Lots of money in those programs....There are some others I would name but I think the schools are just satisfied with being the way they are.....And, maybe not hot seat but with an improved Indiana, Competitive Michigan, and dominant OSU, Illinois might start to feel some heat if they are lackluster. The Illinois fanbase is pretty rabid.

 

[Deacon Drive]

Florida State looks like they have an improved roster compared to last year.

 

[jaggy]

Indiana seems to have better recruits so should see improvement

 

[TennisFan478]

Agree on FSU, looks to be much improved.

 

[TopDawg]

It's going to be hard for Florida State to be vastly improved when they have to replace their top 3 with Lock, Nunez, and Rinaldi all gone. Dougaz and Irandukunda will play up top with the Jose Gracia, Terrance Whitehurst, Alex Knaff, and either Lucas Poullain or Terrell Whitehurst the other starters. They'll be in the second wave in the ACC with Georgia Tech and Duke.

 

[TopDawg]

Virginia Tech looks to be in for a rough year - lost Monteiro, Contini, Bjerrehus, Tessaro, & Gomez. Only newcomers as of today are Korsgaard and Ribeiro. Unless there are two or three studs coming in January they'll have a hard time beating anyone else in the conference except of course BC.