(07-17-2017 08:23 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 01:11 PM)dahbeed Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 12:48 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 11:29 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  

(07-17-2017 10:55 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  Appears your folk are a bit gun shy after being so bad here lately. I went fast and might of missed someone, but I only counted five votes (excluding one that was tossed out for trolling).

In spite of this, three of those five had wkcc first. One was #2 and the other was #4.

So more La Tech fans voted their football team #1 (62.5%) than Western basketball fans did (60.0%). Are their football fans pompous? They haven't finished #1 in football yet but still voted themselves champs. Western fans who have witnessed 2 years of steamrolling (21-1) are culpable because why?

At least Western gives you a reason to get up every day. Keeping (trying) us in our place. (First place. lol)

Yep, we should all just cancel the season and go ahead and crown y'all the champs. No reason to play the games I reckon. You've clearly earned this year's championship already.

This is just a friendly poll. That's all. Nobody will be crowned. Unlike the last 2 seasons when you listed myriad reasons that Western wouldn't finish first on the way to consecutive crowns. Two years ago you beat the drum of bad defense and last year you cried no Doughty. Both of those times you were wrong. But you're right this time. Put us at the bottom with Rice. No?

Wrong on a lot of accounts. As for your defense two years ago if you don't get the two UAB transfers (especially the D-Linemen) your defense would have still stunk. I never even contemplated what type of impact they would have. No one did. I guess it is better to be lucky than good sometimes. And you know this as well as I do that was a major factor in the defense being improved.

As for post Doughty, I never said you wouldn't win. All I said is that he would be hard to replace. Brohm showed just how good of a coach he is by turning White into something more than serviceable. Credit where it is due. I'm not saying he will or won't this year, but I think one of the top story lines is how well White plays without him. I'm not making a prediction. Just think it's an interesting story.

Are you sure about the bold part? Maybe you need your memory refreshed? Say the word and I will refresh it for you with quotes.

I remember it going something like this....

All Western's defense needs to do is improve getting off the field on 3rd and 4th down by 10 or 15 % and with the additions of the two UAB players and just improvement from year to year that should be easy to do.

You are others (Marshall fans) refused to believe that could happen.

Now that isn't a word for word quote. But I bet it went closer to that than the bold part in your post. Again...you want the quotes?