No, I'm not. You're all over the place. And you're taking it personal because your step-kid plays for MU. How am I not proud? By being realistic on what this tourney really is? Again, I hope they win & it's great our younger players are getting playing time. But we made the NCAA tourney last year. Following that up with the CIT isn't exactly something to brag about.
This also included quite a few deserving squads, ETSU, Drake etc. There were more of those and less of the sub .500, all in how you look at it I guess.
You have a core of wvu fans and a core of MU fans.
I had to watch on-line. But, to me this was a championship game. I was like coach herdman. Some moments I sounded like Billy Graham and others like Bobby Knight. I like that feeling.
He just realized that he has been a little wrong about pretty much everything in this tourney, that's all lol Maybe guys will stop judging other schools with preconceived notions from 20 years ago going forward. We got it all from every team we played, we earned this banner.
There had to be more than 5748. It was loud. And all without any cheerleaders. First time I've ever seen that happen. What's up with that?
Yep, they were pretty good. I expected them to be hit and miss though from what I saw against Texas Southern. To their credit, they did take out ETSU in Johnson City, who was in the top 3 or 4 of a pretty good Southern conference this year. I would call this game our second best win, first would be either ODU or Hofstra. I see it as our second (and not third or fourth) best due to the domination the last 13 minutes of the game. Imagine if we had played like that all year...
True, I attended the Hofstra game, there was over 7000 there, and at that it looked almost full, very good atmosphere. Marshall has potential to be an elite mid major, we have the crowd size when we are winning, we have the arena size (i know sam, i know lol) to house the crowd. Pieces are in place to be that, who knows what it would take to become it though. Good defense and rebounding, like we did in this tourney is a start. Winning obviously is the after effect. Funny, on the other paid board, i mentioned this very thing as a necessary aspect to fix our issues, then we started doing it and started winning again, go figure.. it appears that Dan is recruiting for this aspect now, time will tell.
As it turned out the Horizon didn't accept us. It was well known that CUSA would take as as an all sport school as soon as an opening occurred. The Horizon knew that and didn't want us knowing we would use them while we needed them.
Possibly, not sure it would have mattered though, look at USM and UAB. If we were ambitious enough to get that budget up (at that time our budget was BAD) to at least the level of ECU, we would been riding shotgun with ECU to the AAC. I am not sure that IS the reason why we didn't get the call (maybe we did and just couldn't afford the move, who knows really other than Hamrick), but I bet it played into it. Heck, I would have stuck basketball etc in any league that would have taken them for a few years just to get the start we needed in CUSA at that time. Big South, Patriot, whatever as long as the ball would have got rolling.
so basketball finished near the top 25 or 30% of the D1 programs. I guess it is the best sport Marshall has right now. Just for comparison, oh say football, that would put football in the Top 35 or so. Are we top 35 in football?
Deserving by whose standards? And they could have paid up and played if they felt like they deserved it
