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Is it me, or is that a surprisingly cheap contract he agreed to? A $300,000 raise being locked in over the next decade when he's got teams falling over themselves to throw money at him? Very weird. I guess money can't buy happiness if he likes where he's at.
Thank you..The re-entry was my biggest concern...
I'm assuming the locals are pining for Flip Saunders (myself included), but I'm guessing someone associated with the Villa 7 is the reality.
Maybe it's by venue. FWIW...here in CLT last year, they had sections set up where people could actually sit down, eat, whatever and watch the other games going on. That was during the first two rounds of the tournament though. Not sure if they get more restricted as the tournament goes on.
I'm numb.
Yeah, different venues handle it differently. I go to games in different places almost every year. There are a few venues with a good number of monitors on the concourse, only a few of those actually end up showing other games.I've only been to Lucas Oil for the Final Four so I didn't really pay attention to see if they had TVs and obviously there weren't any other games to show.
"but they had big arms!"
I think they wanted to give Tubby a chance to play for his job.
Notwithstanding Michigan's blowout of UFL...this is a true statement.
4 teams in the Sweet 16, 2 in the Elite 8, and 1 in the Final Four. That's pretty damn good.
Because people acted that once any Big Ten team stepped on the court, they'd instantly be better than the other team. Big Ten was the best conference with the 4 top teams and Wisconsin but this meant absolutely nothing about their strength versus other top teams which is all that matters.
Big East had 3 in S16, 3 in the E8 and might have 2 in F4. Will that make them better?
BE with 2 in the F4 and it's game, set, match. BE with two in the final and it will be hyped by the media to the Nth....
One self-correction:
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By this standard, what conference isn't overrated out of the BE, ACC and B1G? You can find "people" who said that about all those conferences.
By this standard neither the ACC nor BE is overrated. They havent been talked up at all compared to the B1G
You've not been listening then...plenty of people talking about how good their conference is and being overlooked for the B1G
Nice try. From November straight on EVERY broadcast of ESPN/CBS *until Syracuse crushed Indiana wire to wire* the B1G was assumed as tops and then in the blogsphere it was 20x worse.You've not been listening then...plenty of people talking about how good their conference is and being overlooked for the B1G
I'd like to emphasize how great it is that Beilein made it to a F4. I remember playing 5th grade basketball in 84ish in North Syracuse and my coach in our little catholic grade school would talk about Beilein as a great coach and teacher; apparently he was very welcoming to local coaches to clinics and what-not. From the time I can remember, he has been considered a class-act and nothing has seemed to change over time. He was a great coach at WVU and I fear playing against him in the next round. Congrats Coach Beilein.Nice try. From November straight on EVERY broadcast of ESPN/CBS *until Syracuse crushed Indiana wire to wire* the B1G was assumed as tops and then in the blogsphere it was 20x worse.You've not been listening then...plenty of people talking about how good their conference is and being overlooked for the B1G
But there's hope. UM's road goes through the BE. Even though their coach is as Big East as they come. I mean, my high school classmates used to play for him when he was a head coach in Syracuse at Lemoyne.
What do you mean "nice try"? I didn't set the standard and the standard you are using isn't the one set either. All that said, it's silly to suggest any conference is better/worse because of tournament performance. Especially when you have a season to rely on instead. One can make the argument the conference under achieved in the tournament perhaps. The best teams in the conference exited before they should have, but the fourth/fifth best team is in the final four. What does that mean exactly??Nice try. From November straight on EVERY broadcast of ESPN/CBS *until Syracuse crushed Indiana wire to wire* the B1G was assumed as tops and then in the blogsphere it was 20x worse.You've not been listening then...plenty of people talking about how good their conference is and being overlooked for the B1G
But there's hope. UM's road goes through the BE. Even though their coach is as Big East as they come. I mean, my high school classmates used to play for him when he was a head coach in Syracuse at Lemoyne.
"Nice try" attempting to equivocate B1G hype with the ACC or BE. Anyone who watched more than 5 minutes of college b'ball this season know that the hype meters were not close. There really wasnt any hype for the ACC or BE; the opposite actually. Most were projecting a down season for the Big East and they have proven to be underrated during this run (excluding your interesting NCAAs-dont-count-criteria)What do you mean "nice try"? I didn't set the standard and the standard you are using isn't the one set either. All that said, it's silly to suggest any conference is better/worse because of tournament performance. Especially when you have a season to rely on instead. One can make the argument the conference under achieved in the tournament perhaps. The best teams in the conference exited before they should have, but the fourth/fifth best team is in the final four. What does that mean exactly??Nice try. From November straight on EVERY broadcast of ESPN/CBS *until Syracuse crushed Indiana wire to wire* the B1G was assumed as tops and then in the blogsphere it was 20x worse.You've not been listening then...plenty of people talking about how good their conference is and being overlooked for the B1G
But there's hope. UM's road goes through the BE. Even though their coach is as Big East as they come. I mean, my high school classmates used to play for him when he was a head coach in Syracuse at Lemoyne.
For me to equivocate, I have to quantify, which I didn't. The reason given for the B1G being overrated by henry is posted above. By that measure, all these conferences are "overrated" because they all have fans who do that. I don't agree with the measure personally. You've chosen to narrow it to the media, which is fine, but I believe it to be a fool's argument since the media hypes what is going to give them ratings. They rarely have an unbiased opinion. And to be clear, I don't have a "NCAA's don't count" criteria. I simply think it's simple minded to ignore the regular season body of work while putting a spot light on the tournament to determine how well the teams of a particular conference did for the year. I'm perfectly fine with someone suggesting that the B1G underachieved in the tournament as a whole, but there were two teams from the B1G who didn't play to their seed and two who exceeded their seed. If that's "overrated" by your standards so be it. That's your definition. We can move on.."Nice try" attempting to equivocate B1G hype with the ACC or BE. Anyone who watched more than 5 minutes of college b'ball this season know that the hype meters were not close. There really wasnt any hype for the ACC or BE; the opposite actually. Most were projecting a down season for the Big East and they have proven to be underrated during this run (excluding your interesting NCAAs-dont-count-criteria)What do you mean "nice try"? I didn't set the standard and the standard you are using isn't the one set either. All that said, it's silly to suggest any conference is better/worse because of tournament performance. Especially when you have a season to rely on instead. One can make the argument the conference under achieved in the tournament perhaps. The best teams in the conference exited before they should have, but the fourth/fifth best team is in the final four. What does that mean exactly??Nice try. From November straight on EVERY broadcast of ESPN/CBS *until Syracuse crushed Indiana wire to wire* the B1G was assumed as tops and then in the blogsphere it was 20x worse.You've not been listening then...plenty of people talking about how good their conference is and being overlooked for the B1G
But there's hope. UM's road goes through the BE. Even though their coach is as Big East as they come. I mean, my high school classmates used to play for him when he was a head coach in Syracuse at Lemoyne.
It just shows that preseason projections are pretty stupid to begin with. It was probably true that the Big 10 started out better than other conferences because of what was coming back from last season to begin the new season... but as seasons progress, players get better and better, thus teams, and conferences, get better and better... and more competitive. There is also the argument that teams in more competetive conferences just beat the snot out of each other, so by the time the NCAA tournament comes around, they are at a disadvantage in a tournament structure to crown a champion as everything they've worked to achieve by pouring their energy and stamina into up to that point becomes meaningless. So if the BE and/or ACC got better than the B1G as the season went on, good for them. Or if the BE and/or ACC had more stamina left in them come tournament time, good for them. Preseason projection hype should die off as the season unfolds anyway."Nice try" attempting to equivocate B1G hype with the ACC or BE. Anyone who watched more than 5 minutes of college b'ball this season know that the hype meters were not close. There really wasnt any hype for the ACC or BE; the opposite actually. Most were projecting a down season for the Big East and they have proven to be underrated during this run (excluding your interesting NCAAs-dont-count-criteria)What do you mean "nice try"? I didn't set the standard and the standard you are using isn't the one set either. All that said, it's silly to suggest any conference is better/worse because of tournament performance. Especially when you have a season to rely on instead. One can make the argument the conference under achieved in the tournament perhaps. The best teams in the conference exited before they should have, but the fourth/fifth best team is in the final four. What does that mean exactly??Nice try. From November straight on EVERY broadcast of ESPN/CBS *until Syracuse crushed Indiana wire to wire* the B1G was assumed as tops and then in the blogsphere it was 20x worse.You've not been listening then...plenty of people talking about how good their conference is and being overlooked for the B1G
But there's hope. UM's road goes through the BE. Even though their coach is as Big East as they come. I mean, my high school classmates used to play for him when he was a head coach in Syracuse at Lemoyne.
Extra games in the NIT bodes well for Iowa. They had a good year and lost some close games. Fran McCaffrey is doing a nice job.
Not really.
A strong NIT showing seems to often bode well for the year ahead ...congrats to Iowa for making the championship.
Yup this Pitino didn't even bang a waitress in a restaurant booth, much less win anything.
Ehh, anyone expecting that the Shaka Smart's and Brad Stevens' of the world were coming to Minnesota are disappointed, but that just didn't seem realistic from the start. Flip would've been an ok hire, simply for the sake that it's what a lot of the boosters ($$) would've liked. I'm just not convinced that he would've made a great college coach.
