Gameday!!!
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I'm afraid someone will step in and answer your question. i don't have the energy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Middle Tennessee State picked to finish dead last in the pre-season poll?
Thought I saw that somewhere, but maybe it was just a bad dream a night or two back.
Thought I saw that somewhere, but maybe it was just a bad dream a night or two back.
Because DD has put forward one of the bottom teams in MU history, and one of the worst teams in the country. The players are not listening to him and his silly gimmick offense and most of them are simply not DI level athletes in the first place. They are 11-20 overall, 9-20 versus DI teams, 4-14 in conference, and have beaten no one of any significance, with only four wins versus teams with winning records. Probably zero, or perhaps one, tournament team beaten (Wright State plays tonight). NET of 240. Garbage.
It is nice to play pretend that MU is going to win a PIG (which it just might, FIU is equally garbage) and then soar through the tournament of one of the worst basketball leagues in the country and get a 16 seed and then upset Duke or Kentucky.
But that isn’t real. Real is the season will end tonight, or tomorrow or the next day.
Then the realists need to have the real discussion. Which is firing DD, who to replace him with, and who to run off to the small colleges they belong at.
Fire DD.
You and Perkins need to have a Ladder Match. Suspended 15 ft above the ring is the title of "THE TRUE MU FAN" since Goddamn Sam seems to be the antithesis to Perkins but claims fandom nonetheless.
PS
I'm taking Perkins...his FB profile pic of the Cat in the Hat green and white hat with that insane look, that is the eyes of the monster, that is fear!! That is defeat for you, Goddamn Sam!!!
Perkins and I, and most everyone here (you and a few other obvious trolls excluded) are all fans. We just have different takes. I understand basketball and thus understand that DD must be fired. It is what is necessary for MU basketball to be what we all want it to be. Perkins has a more child like look at things. Rah rah rah. Win one for the Gipper. Leave no doubt!!! Root root root for the home team. Go Fight Win. Blah, blah, blah.
The enthusiasm is appreciated. It is in fact admirable.
It is also delusional. Being a fan, sadly, involves more than, Spamite like, believing that your team is the best because it is your team. Sometimes it involves understanding that the path we are on is leading nowhere, and, fandom involves demanding proper changes.
Like firing DD.
Fire DD.
The enthusiasm is appreciated. It is in fact admirable.
It is also delusional. Being a fan, sadly, involves more than, Spamite like, believing that your team is the best because it is your team. Sometimes it involves understanding that the path we are on is leading nowhere, and, fandom involves demanding proper changes.
Like firing DD.
Fire DD.
This season was a dumpster fire. There is no other way to look at it. I never root against the Herd, but I just want this to be over. It’s embarrassing.
You could combine the two teams and take our 5 best guys and FIU's 5 best guys, and still not be competitive in this tournament... Lack of talent and poor coaching together equal bad basketball.
Does C-USA still run the conference tournament like college intramurals? Multiple games side by side going on simultaneously? Think they put a curtain between courts before.
Speaking of big time, did I see where early round games are on ESPN+ but later rounds are on Stadium before ending up on CBSSN.
This is a great idea, but Stowers would run down at the conclusion and cash in his Money in the bank suitcase.
Yes.
PIGs and real first round, ESPN+, quarters 2 on Stadium 2 on Stadium Facebook, Semis and Finals on CBSSN. Same for the women, Lady Herd plays at noon today.
But why worry about it? The Herd will be long gone and real TV channels have lots of games all week. The SEC tournament looks excellent, and the ACC looks good as well.
Why would anyone attend Marshall vs. FIU?... Both teams are awful, neither are anywhere near Texas, on a Tuesday night, MU is leaving the conference in a couple months, etc. If I were a Herd booster who lived within 30 mins of the arena, I'd be there. Other than that, hard pass.
It's a terrible location and venue. Looks bush league - which is on par with CUSA. Not that the league would sell out any venue, or close. Just bad. I seriously doubt the championship game gets 5K regardless of who it is.
Arguing about history, as MU has every chance of playing its last CUSA game today, but to be a major conference, you have to go to a neutral site. When the conference played at UAB or at UTEP, THAT was bush league. The kind of stuff that goes on at the very bottom of the division, like the America East. Even the Big South sucked it up and rented a place in Charlotte. Heck, even the Mountain East rents the Wheeling civic center or whatever it is called.
There really is no neutral site that is going to draw a crowd. CUSA is just too spread out, and only about five teams really even care about basketball anyway.
On to the SBC, which is the original conference that invented playing the tournament a week early to get attention and not be lost among all the big boy tournaments, did you catch any of that? Same story, although they play in a regular civic center, oddly in Pensacola. Similar crowds.
There really is no neutral site that is going to draw a crowd. CUSA is just too spread out, and only about five teams really even care about basketball anyway.
On to the SBC, which is the original conference that invented playing the tournament a week early to get attention and not be lost among all the big boy tournaments, did you catch any of that? Same story, although they play in a regular civic center, oddly in Pensacola. Similar crowds.
I know there has been some rumbling on other boards about maybe moving the SBC tourney to a state that actually has a SBC team in it, with a more neutral location... Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, etc would fit that bill.
It is oddly quite common to play conference tournaments in states that don’t have a dog in the fight. The WAC, West Coast and Big West all play in Las Vegas, the A-10 and CAA. play in DC, the Big 12 plays in Kansas City MO, and the OVC plays in Evansville, IN. DC is also in the rotation for the ACC, going back next year.
Frankly, I don’t see it drawing flies anywhere its played, off campus, and on-campus tournaments are bush league. Play wherever is a nice place, where we can get a good deal from the town or county or whoever owns the arena. Birmingham would be OK, as would Charlotte or any of the other Piedmont cities. Mobile would = USA and Atlanta would almost + GA State.
And the cold douche of reality is applied. Child like enthusiasm and syncophantcy rah, rah, rah, win one for the Gipper, leave no doubt, etc. is no substitute for actual DI level players and an actual college level coaching staff.
We have neither.
Fire DD.
We have neither.
Fire DD.
Mercy killing to end the season... Time to get rid of White - er, I mean Jirsa - er, I mean Herrion - No wait, I remember, Dantoni.
