(08-25-2012 01:19 PM)Gopper Wrote:  the posts on this thread made me chuckle... USF has been irrelevant for the last 20 years in BB, essentially a doormat of the BE... That win versus the Cards was nothing more than a fluke, your BB program squeaked into the NCAA tourny because the selection committe was being generous, nothing more... Your record in the NCAA tourny is 2 wins and 3 losses speaks for itself lmao... At the end of the day Wright's Villanova and Dixon's Pitt had an offyear after years of consistency at the top which I fully expect them to correct this year, the benefactor of such an offyear was USF...

Seems like Bulls and Bulls fans have one thing in common, a big head

???? USF was a great team last year. They beat UC in a nail biter and had a good showing in the ncaa tourney. How can you say this with a straight face?

USF should still be pretty good this year. In terms of basketball tradition USF is still near the bottom of the Big East but they are not as bad some people think. They some decent NIT teams in C-USA and are making a lot of progress in Big East.

In the new Big East, I am really interested to see what Houston, DePaul, and Providence do because those are three schools with the most that are not living up to the past.

(08-26-2012 09:00 AM)bearcatlawjd Wrote:  USF should still be pretty good this year. In terms of basketball tradition USF is still near the bottom of the Big East but they are not as bad some people think. They some decent NIT teams in C-USA and are making a lot of progress in Big East.

In the new Big East, I am really interested to see what Houston, DePaul, and Providence do because those are three schools with the most that are not living up to the past.

I think Houston will get it going.

(08-26-2012 08:12 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(08-25-2012 01:19 PM)Gopper Wrote:  the posts on this thread made me chuckle... USF has been irrelevant for the last 20 years in BB, essentially a doormat of the BE... That win versus the Cards was nothing more than a fluke, your BB program squeaked into the NCAA tourny because the selection committe was being generous, nothing more... Your record in the NCAA tourny is 2 wins and 3 losses speaks for itself lmao... At the end of the day Wright's Villanova and Dixon's Pitt had an offyear after years of consistency at the top which I fully expect them to correct this year, the benefactor of such an offyear was USF...

Seems like Bulls and Bulls fans have one thing in common, a big head

???? USF was a great team last year. They beat UC in a nail biter and had a good showing in the ncaa tourney. How can you say this with a straight face?

You could ask the same question about any of Gopper's posts over the last few weeks. He's obviously trolling for responses everytime he posts.

Gopper gave Me negative points when My smart phone spelled Charlie Strong wrong so I think He's real.

USF has a solid basketball program they can finally be proud of.

And Gopper, you want to knock on them because you can't stand it. Give me a break.

Looking forward to my Knights playing at the Dome this year!

A doormat hoops team in the Big East is often a middle of the pack team in the other major conferences, and possibly an upper half team in the mid-major conferences. USF will do fine. They have come a long way in an almost impossible hoops situation since they joined the Big East.

I'm not ready to say the will beat the Big East powers that be, but they are a team that cannot be taken lightly.

Things have changed at USF regarding basketball with the renovation of he Sun Dome and the building of the basketball practice facilities the Bulls finally have facilities comparable to the upper levels in the Big East.

This was from May right after they opened the new Sun Dome

SunDome

(08-26-2012 09:13 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  Things have changed at USF regarding basketball with the renovation of he Sun Dome and the building of the basketball practice facilities the Bulls finally have facilities comparable to the upper levels in the Big East.

How about the sherriff, does he still attend USF games?

(08-26-2012 09:31 PM)sherekhan Wrote:  

(08-26-2012 09:13 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  Things have changed at USF regarding basketball with the renovation of he Sun Dome and the building of the basketball practice facilities the Bulls finally have facilities comparable to the upper levels in the Big East.

How about the sherriff, does he still attend USF games?

I think he lives in Arizona now but have seen him at some football games.

(08-25-2012 01:19 PM)Gopper Wrote:  the posts on this thread made me chuckle... USF has been irrelevant for the last 20 years in BB, essentially a doormat of the BE... That win versus the Cards was nothing more than a fluke, your BB program squeaked into the NCAA tourny because the selection committe was being generous, nothing more..

C'mon man. I was at that game. It was senior night. You don't win on a "fluke" on the road on another team's senior night when you lead for most of the game.

it amuses me to see that people think I have some sort of vendetta against USF, I dont... If you dont like my posts then you must be delusional; its amazing how much cred a program gets on these forums when they squeak into the NCAA tourny (by virtue of NCAA expanding the field) and now suddenly their program no longer is the doormat thats been present for two decades... Now I understand that no BE program has the prestige the Cardinals have, and Im not blaming the Bulls for being god awful for twenty years, but talk to me when USF can consistently reach NCAA tourny

Oh and since many posters feel uncomfortable about my posts i feel i should explain myself... I am Gopper, an enthusiastic Cards fan, I am not a troll but i do enjoy using sarcasm in my posts, im sure everyone knows how to read between the lines... Unlike the majority of Card fans who are debbie downers when it comes to the BE, the Wilkies who whore themselves to any conference, or even CJ's threads where we are bound for a different conference; I enjoy the BE... I dont feel the need to defend or even post everything UL related like SF Husky does about UConn but everyone is kidding themselves if you dont see UL as the Premier BE School in All Sports

(08-26-2012 10:57 PM)Gopper Wrote:  Oh and since many posters feel uncomfortable about my posts i feel i should explain myself... I am Gopper, an enthusiastic Cards fan, I am not a troll but i do enjoy using sarcasm in my posts, im sure everyone knows how to read between the lines... Unlike the majority of Card fans who are debbie downers when it comes to the BE, the Wilkies who whore themselves to any conference, or even CJ's threads where we are bound for a different conference; I enjoy the BE... I dont feel the need to defend or even post everything UL related ....

That's a very refreshing change.

(08-26-2012 10:57 PM)Gopper Wrote:  it amuses me to see that people think I have some sort of vendetta against USF, I dont... If you dont like my posts then you must be delusional; its amazing how much cred a program gets on these forums when they squeak into the NCAA tourny (by virtue of NCAA expanding the field) and now suddenly their program no longer is the doormat thats been present for two decades... Now I understand that no BE program has the prestige the Cardinals have, and Im not blaming the Bulls for being god awful for twenty years, but talk to me when USF can consistently reach NCAA tourny

Oh and since many posters feel uncomfortable about my posts i feel i should explain myself... I am Gopper, an enthusiastic Cards fan, I am not a troll but i do enjoy using sarcasm in my posts, im sure everyone knows how to read between the lines... Unlike the majority of Card fans who are debbie downers when it comes to the BE, the Wilkies who whore themselves to any conference, or even CJ's threads where we are bound for a different conference; I enjoy the BE... I dont feel the need to defend or even post everything UL related like SF Husky does about UConn but everyone is kidding themselves if you dont see UL as the Premier BE School in All Sports

yes....I know I know. And we should all bow before you and thank God in heaven that UofL still graces the conference....give me a fricken break.

You are correct in demonstrating USF's years of bad basketball play and you are also correct in that one year does not a program make (good or bad). You have also demonstrated in your posts that you are unable to lose graciously....USF didn't get lucky, they came in and stuck it to you. Sorry if that bothers you. Welcome to the truth.

No one is claiming that USF is a basketball powerhouse but Bulls fans are excited at the CURRENT direction of our program. For too many years we were at the bottom and doing absolutely nothing about it. We are finally investing in the program by raising salaries and upgrading facilities which were below standards. The Bulls have finished in the middle of the league standings in two of past three years, finally made the NCAA and actually won its first two games in the tourney. No by UL standards thats nothing but by our standards thats huge and it shows that our school is finally getting serious about being competitive in the sport.

I haven't gone through the thread, but all I can say is good riddance.

I would like BE schools to actually uphold some academic standards. By bringing in these tier 2-3 schools that aren't up to par with other schools in the ACC and Big 10, our "student" athletes become a bigger joke in the classroom and that is a perception issue. Every BE school needs to do a better job being cognizant of that. Recruiting the lazy, uneducated athletes who may be talented but don't take the books seriously is a path I do not want to see our schools go down.

(08-27-2012 08:09 AM)RUScarlets Wrote:  I haven't gone through the thread, but all I can say is good riddance.

I would like BE schools to actually uphold some academic standards. By bringing in these tier 2-3 schools that aren't up to par with other schools in the ACC and Big 10, our "student" athletes become a bigger joke in the classroom and that is a perception issue. Every BE school needs to do a better job being cognizant of that. Recruiting the lazy, uneducated athletes who may be talented but don't take the books seriously is a path I do not want to see our schools go down.

Believe Navy, UCF and Rutgers are all Top 20-25 in APR rankings the last few seasons...and while that's nice...TV Networks are much more interested in showing SPORTS to their customers...vs showing Humanities Test scores to their audiences.

(08-26-2012 10:57 PM)Gopper Wrote:  it amuses me to see that people think I have some sort of vendetta against USF, I dont... If you dont like my posts then you must be delusional; its amazing how much cred a program gets on these forums when they squeak into the NCAA tourny (by virtue of NCAA expanding the field) and now suddenly their program no longer is the doormat thats been present for two decades... Now I understand that no BE program has the prestige the Cardinals have, and Im not blaming the Bulls for being god awful for twenty years, but talk to me when USF can consistently reach NCAA tourny

Oh and since many posters feel uncomfortable about my posts i feel i should explain myself... I am Gopper, an enthusiastic Cards fan, I am not a troll but i do enjoy using sarcasm in my posts, im sure everyone knows how to read between the lines... Unlike the majority of Card fans who are debbie downers when it comes to the BE, the Wilkies who whore themselves to any conference, or even CJ's threads where we are bound for a different conference; I enjoy the BE... I dont feel the need to defend or even post everything UL related like SF Husky does about UConn but everyone is kidding themselves if you dont see UL as the Premier BE School in All Sports

You don't even know what happened last season! (See above) Kind of puts everything else in question...

(08-27-2012 08:44 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(08-27-2012 08:09 AM)RUScarlets Wrote:  I haven't gone through the thread, but all I can say is good riddance.

I would like BE schools to actually uphold some academic standards. By bringing in these tier 2-3 schools that aren't up to par with other schools in the ACC and Big 10, our "student" athletes become a bigger joke in the classroom and that is a perception issue. Every BE school needs to do a better job being cognizant of that. Recruiting the lazy, uneducated athletes who may be talented but don't take the books seriously is a path I do not want to see our schools go down.

Believe Navy, UCF and Rutgers are all Top 20-25 in APR rankings the last few seasons...and while that's nice...TV Networks are much more interested in showing SPORTS to their customers...vs showing Humanities Test scores to their audiences.

Yeah well I could care less about the bottom line because it is not my money and I no longer attend those schools. Don't get me wrong, more money is more money, but perception and doing things the right way is more important that making a quick dollar to me. Obviously not every president feels that way.

Then again, it is my money if I subscribe to and watch BE programming. But I would rather watch a garbage product than watch programs tainted with corruption and scandal reagarding academic exemptions for such and such athletes.