Re: 2009 NCAA Tournament thread

[Derwood]

I love when people use their school's sports history in their "my **** is bigger than yours" contests. Good stuff.

[SouthSideRyan]

I love when people use their school's sports history in their "my **** is bigger than yours" contests. Good stuff.

 

But my [expletive] is bigger than Snood's.

[snoodmonger]

Honest question here...Outside of Bob Knight's time, is IU really a power program? Admittedly, take out any program's #1 coach and they fall a lot, but UCLA, UNC, Kentucky, KU have all enjoyed sustained success under multiple coaches. Is IU really in that same class or did they get "lucky" with one coach (for a very long time)?

How great is UNC if you take away Dean Smith?

How great is Duke if you take out Coach K?

How great is Kentucky if you take out Coach Rupp?

How great is UCLA without Wooden?

How good is Kansas without cheating?(sorry, had to put that in there)

Did you read my post beyond the first sentence, or were you that anxious to make the dig on Kansas?

Did you even read my post or were you just that anxious to get that dig in on me. Coaches make programs. Why the hell would IU be any different? It's the reason KU wanted Self and not just to promote an assistant. Also how long was Knight at IU? 30 years. Yeah I imagine you take away the 30 best years from any school and they probably wouldn't have near the same results. Really not all that hard a thing to figure out.

 

And the Kansas thing, while a dig, is very true. Find me another school who has won a title while on probation. Then after you do that, find the other schools who have won a title, then went directly on probation afterwards. But, that's probably just picking on the Jayhawks.

 

You are so bitter that our program blows the doors off of yours. Sorry dude. Maybe you'll pick up another Final Four in the next fifteen years.

Yep, but what part that I put was not a fact??

 

Both the things we were on probation for gained us little competitive advantage, if any. Heck, the guy we got dinged for in 89 never even played for the team.

 

Bottom line is we got the titles. You'd take 'em in a heartbeat.

[MPrior]

I know this is the NCAA Tournament thread, so maybe I shouldn't even bring this up, but judging the quality of different conferences by their performance in a single elimination tournament to which only a portion of each conference is invited is pretty much useless.

[CubColtPacer]

I know this is the NCAA Tournament thread, so maybe I shouldn't even bring this up, but judging the quality of different conferences by their performance in a single elimination tournament to which only a portion of each conference is invited is pretty much useless.

 

Agreed, but it's also the best we have.

 

Nonconference games could be argued to be even more flawed. There is a limited number of cross conference matchups to look at, and it's so early in the season that athleticism becomes a bigger factor in November or December when teams haven't fully integrated their team game yet.

 

Overall though, there are just way too many variables and way too small of a sample to ever get a true reading of whether a great conference is better than a very good one.

[TruffleShuffle]

I love when people use their school's sports history in their "my **** is bigger than yours" contests. Good stuff.

 

it's even funnier when they're cub fans at the same time.

[Outshined_One]

Go Spartans and Heels.

[manbearcub]

looks like Thabeet is going to be able to get away with murder.

[Guest]

Biggest deficit of the tournament for UConn.

[TruffleShuffle]

let's go spartans! daddy needs a new pair of shoes.

[Flames24Rulz]

MSU's going to have fun stopping UConn's gigantic front line.

[Keener98]

MSU's going to have fun stopping UConn's gigantic front line.

 

 

They dont have a chance if this game continues to be officiated like this. Every little touch is a foul on the Mich State bigs.

[Keener98]

And apparently UConns bigs can just push people around to allow them to get an offensive putback

[Outshined_One]

UConn is getting away with mugging underneath. Yeesh.

[Flames24Rulz]

Suton is getting abused by Thabeet.

[snoodmonger]

i guess swinging the elbows isn't a point of emphasis anymore.

[TruffleShuffle]

i wouldn't take it up against thabeet either if i knew he'd drill me and not get called for it.

[Keener98]

UConn is getting away with mugging underneath. Yeesh.

 

 

Yea hell they are already bigger than MSU, they dont need the extra help down there.

[Mark_R]

elbow adrien in the face and thabeet in the gonads plz

[Keener98]

elbow adrien in the face and thabeet in the gonads plz

 

Itd probably count for 4 fouls against MSU

[stuy119]

i guess swinging the elbows isn't a point of emphasis anymore.

 

No kidding. Adrien needs to catch an errant elbow himself to teach him to stop.

[TruffleShuffle]

msu needs to keep suton on the perimeter to draw thabeet from underneath the basket when uconn is playing man.

[Mark_R]

If this hasn't been said in this thread, it needs to be: Tom Izzo is one of the five best coaches in the country.

[Keener98]

If this hasn't been said in this thread, it needs to be: Tom Izzo is one of the five best coaches in the country.

 

Easily.

 

Hey look a foul on UConn!

[TruffleShuffle]

nice sarcastic cheer by the spartan fans