(02-01-2013 12:36 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 12:28 PM)aughnanure Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 12:23 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 12:16 PM)aughnanure Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 08:33 AM)stever20 Wrote:  Of the additions, yes they do need to be good right now. we can't afford for Dayton to come in and be 2-16 1st year. It'd make us look stupid as hell when VCU is doing very well.

F*** yes we can! Someone's got to come in and do it. Everyone can't go 9-9. We need a team to go 14-4, 15-3 and get high seeds...which means a team goes 4-14, 5-13, etc.

There are only so many wins available.

You are so ******* full of **** it's not funny. if Dayton is 2-16 and VCU is 28-4 and making the NCAA tourney, we look like petty morons. You take the best teams available, and by ANY measure, VCU is that, while Dayton is not. You can not debate that.

There is no ******* guarantee that we would have a team go 14-4 or 15-3. Dayton can be 2-16 and we still have the champion going 13-5 or 12-6.

That will happen regardless. Someone in this league is going to be bad and lose a lot of games and some team on the outside will be looking great. You are so short sighted and just want instant gratification.

Guess what? VCU won't going to be coming so start getting over it.

Gess what- the invites haven't been announced yet. It's not a lock at all. if VCU makes a run again, especially if they make the final 8 or better- it will be IMPOSSIBLE to ignore them. Fox won't let them ignore them.

The league HAS to come out of the shoot fast. You are really delusional if you think for a second that if we have a bad first year or two that we will be able to recover anywhere near where we're starting. DOn't give me this 12 year tv deal- tv is great, but if we're average, recruiting will get destroyed. Instead of folks looking at Marquette, they'll be looking at Wisconsin. That's the problem.

I don't get the idea that if we have a four bid first year we are forever doomed. Every new team will have to adjust to the rest if the C7. The money and style of play will be new to them. Some will do better than expected and some will do worse. Our future lies on how we do years 3-7. That's when our narrative will be written. Not year 1 and 2.