Quote:Jerod Haase took over a train wreck that Mike Davis left behind at UAB
First time I've seen a national writer recognize Davis for what he was
What, no ridicule for using KenPom data in the article?
Hypocrites!
(12-17-2012 07:01 PM)KevMo4UAB Wrote: [ -> ]What, no ridicule for using KenPom data in the article?
Hypocrites!
No, unlike you, I have read other Goodman articles where he didn't mention Kenpom.
I think he speaks the truth. This conference is a monumental disaster.
(12-18-2012 11:54 AM)Grammar-Nazi Wrote: [ -> ]I think he speaks the truth. This conference is a monumental disaster.
He obviously put that stupid headline to attract readers, only to then admit it went too far. Then he describes the miserable basketball conference we are. Wake me when football season comes back around or when we change conferences.
Every conference deserves an NCAA bid as long as they meet the qualifications to get a bid.
The automatic bid may "meet the qualifications," but we all know about half of the automatic bids each year would never make the tournament as an at-large team, and probably half of those deservingly so.
I think he's right that no team from C-USA this year will be deserving of an at-large bid to the tournament.
A conference is only as good as its PRESENT coaches and players. Its REPUTATION can be of greater endurance since that is what people identify with over long term.
2012, for instance, was a terrible year for the SEC in football (compared to its reputation) with only the reputation of Bama to save it - 1/3 of its coaches have been replaced for 2013 and at least a couple survivors will be "hot seat" candidates for next year.
UAB upgraded its major men's sport HCs this year and the fruits of those hires are expected to become evident in the near future. If some other conference schools do as well, C-USA will improve from this year's low point. EVERY coaching hire is a gamble and most will turn out less than wonderful and those with the "deepest pockets" have the best choices and the least risk.
At large bids? Sure. We may not have any of those. It wouldn't be the first time that it happened.
The beauty of the NCAA tournament is the fact that the lower conferences can have teams in it due to automatic bids.
Is he that guy that played on Rosanne?
& was in the Skin Bracer aftershave commercial.
When Houston, UCF, SMU, Memphis, and Tulane join the big east, they automatically become less abysmal, and instantlly raises the RPI of the big east.
Goodman should have said, as it stands now, CUSA is... but when the better teams (ha ha hehe ha ha) like UCF, SMU,Tulane and Houston leaves CUSA, CUSA instantly becomes abysmal and unworthy...
See what crap that is.
(12-18-2012 04:30 PM)rebounder2u Wrote: [ -> ]When Houston, UCF, SMU, Memphis, and Tulane join the big east, they automatically become less abysmal, and instantlly raises the RPI of the big east.
Goodman should have said, as it stands now, CUSA is... but when the better teams (ha ha hehe ha ha) like UCF, SMU,Tulane and Houston leaves CUSA, CUSA instantly becomes abysmal and unworthy...
See what crap that is.
I don't know where you got that they raise the RPI of the Big East. I don't know if you heard but some basketball schools are leaving because of the addition of some of those schools
(12-18-2012 02:34 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]A conference is only as good as its PRESENT coaches and players. Its REPUTATION can be of greater endurance since that is what people identify with over long term.
2012, for instance, was a terrible year for the SEC in football (compared to its reputation) with only the reputation of Bama to save it - 1/3 of its coaches have been replaced for 2013 and at least a couple survivors will be "hot seat" candidates for next year.
UAB upgraded its major men's sport HCs this year and the fruits of those hires are expected to become evident in the near future. If some other conference schools do as well, C-USA will improve from this year's low point. EVERY coaching hire is a gamble and most will turn out less than wonderful and those with the "deepest pockets" have the best choices and the least risk.
You may be the only person on earth who would say a conference with its teams comprising HALF of the Top 10 had a "terrible" year. Or, perhaps the SEC is the only conference on earth that would say that. Either way, it's a stupid statement.
The SEC had a very solid top half this year. It also had a very pathetic bottom half. The SEC is living off a a reputation that has been made by winning BCSMNC's for the past X number of years. It doesn't matter that the opponent hasn't been creamed by the SEC team in years, it just matters that they won. Here is some insight into this fallacy:
Florida beat FSU, Jacksonville St., squeaked by ULL, and Bowling Green OOC this year.
Georgia beat FAU, Buffalo, Georgia Southern, and Georgia Tech
South Carolina beat UAB, ECU, Wofford and Clemson
Alabama spanked Michigan on national television, and beat FAU, WKU, and Western Carolina
LSU beat North Texas, Washington, Towson, and Idaho
Texas A&M squeaked by La Tech, and beat SMU, South Carolina State, and Sam Houston State
Honestly, how many good teams did these teams have to beat OOC? FSU, Clemson, and La Tech? Do we include Washington, Michigan, and/or WKU? I'm not saying these 6 teams aren't good, because they are, but I am saying that I believe their greatness is exaggerated at this point. Because the bottom half was so terrible this year(something like 0-34 against these teams, right?), the top half was able to rack up wins in great numbers.
And just so everybody remembers, the SEC is 14 teams now.. 4/14 is not 1/3