I certainly agree. Softball team has been good, baseball has made it to the college World Series, and I’m sure we may missing some other achievements. To me, the wins against Xavier and Bowling Green were amazing wins.
A Wasted Basketball Season
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Aren't we the second smallest public D1 school in undergrad enrollment?
I thought I saw that somewhere.
We are listed as having an enrollment of 13,331. The number of undergraduates is 8,001. These numbers are from 2021.
How many wins do you want? All of them? Follow some other team.
It'd be nice to not continually choke at the end of the season and be able to win more than 1 championship in 9 seasons. The number in the win column is debatable. However, they should include conference tournament wins and championships. Instead we get to the end of the season with everything on the line and fail to close the deal.
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geezer - it was the NIT, so I guess they’re actually in the saccharine sixteen? But I get your point.
I respectfully dispute some of your points.
Ask Stanford, Vanderbilt, or Northwestern if they really care about winning over GPA and academic standards in the two major sports.
You think the Ivy League, if they REALLY wanted to, couldn't phone up the NCAA and demand to be FBS using their political power, and then use THEIR financial power to buy teams or enter bidding wars with the SEC and win?
Sorry, some institutions actually do have academic standards, which is why, they don't win but continue to exist.
It actually is why Northwestern, Stanford, Vanderbilt, etc., aren't better.
You really think Alabama could keep up with them if they wanted to just bring in athletes and forego the whole academics thing?
Is it piss poor leadership when the higher level of D1 stacks the deck completely against your mid major program to really win?
You are right, D1 sports is a business and business is winning...but it's also a monopoly and total politics within. 94% of the programs aren't ever going to achieve what they set out to...and for the few who can win the whole thing, and do, remind everyone else that just being in the same conversation is a win...and every now and then, that happens.
I have always said Marshall achieves at a very high level all things considered. I respectfully disagree that the SB or MAC are bush league. Like others on here I want to win conference titles . However I do not feel as if all is lost if we don't win every year.As @GoHerdMarshallYes has stated the deck is stacked against most schools and that included Marshall. So what can we do? I say be the best we can be at everything we do and then enjoy the trip.
I feel fans are frustrated and they have every reason to be...and this is more mid majors than the P5.
MU soccer PROVED what is actually capable when you have the right facilities, the right hires, and just go out and win often.
Did you ever think soccer, attendance-wise, would have higher percentages than football or basketball to the point they expanded the stadium whereas football and basketball tarped off their seats?
Soccer was able to put MU at the pinnacle of achievement in a short period of time. Whereas football has tried for decades to give MU even a glimmer of the same success and it simply isn't attainable, entirely out of our control too...and it's getting harder each year to do.
Same with basketball...who, theoretically, could win it all but simply hasn't and is distancing themselves further from having a chance.
That's the frustration for, I think, MU fans more than anything.
MU soccer PROVED what is actually capable when you have the right facilities, the right hires, and just go out and win often.
Did you ever think soccer, attendance-wise, would have higher percentages than football or basketball to the point they expanded the stadium whereas football and basketball tarped off their seats?
Soccer was able to put MU at the pinnacle of achievement in a short period of time. Whereas football has tried for decades to give MU even a glimmer of the same success and it simply isn't attainable, entirely out of our control too...and it's getting harder each year to do.
Same with basketball...who, theoretically, could win it all but simply hasn't and is distancing themselves further from having a chance.
That's the frustration for, I think, MU fans more than anything.
@OldielovesHerd , there are a lot of people in this thread who owe you an apology.
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