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(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Actually I would watch all of them because I enjoy basketball.
I like ODU and hope they win because they represent C-USA. I think Illinois State will beat TAMU. Love watching SEC teams lose. Good entertainment.
The Princeton at Fresno game is very intriguing. Two contrasting styles of play.
Love the fact that big bad Penn State has to travel to Sienna. A place where we have had to play under Anderson in the NIT.

I would watch all four of them over any SEC game. That's how I roll.

I'll put it this way. When we played Coastal Carolina in the NIT people in other parts of the country thought it was two garbage teams in a garbage tournament.

Their RPI was over 100 and they had an SOS in the 300's. They had a shiny record, but that was it. And they lost in their conference tournament. I definitely wouldn't call them a good team. UAB had a decent team that year, and I doubt many people said that was two garbage teams.

And if you hate the SEC so much that you can't enjoy the good games that take place there, that's your right. Me, I'm going to watch Florida-Kentucky play over TAMU and Illinois State all day every day.

So we should "get used" to these tournaments? In other words settle for lower tier. No way do I get used to these crap tournaments. If we ever do play on one, I will support the team in shame that we hVe sunk so low. I won't get used to it. Thats bull****

One good thing this week and next is that there are so many games on TV that a basketball fan can cherry pick a full plate almost all day. Even teams you don't ever normally see on TV can offer a good game to watch at this time of year. Sort of like a host of surprise packages for the BB fan. It won't last long, but it is fun while it lasts.

I would rather watch ODU play that Florida any day. I won't be watching that game. I am not doing the poll this year for the site so I have no interest.

If I bring it back next year I would watch so I can have an educated opinion on how I vote.

(03-21-2014 10:53 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  So we should "get used" to these tournaments? In other words settle for lower tier. No way do I get used to these crap tournaments. If we ever do play on one, I will support the team in shame that we hVe sunk so low. I won't get used to it. Thats bull****

I am putting you back on my Christmas list. Your best post ever. Let me add to it. These tournaments suck and I would include the NIT. Stop rewarding mediocre teams with average seasons. Stop lowering the bar. Yes this includes our team. College basketball is about March Madness. PERIOD. Even bad teams have an opportunity to go if they get hot for their conference tournaments. Point is we don't need these bs other tournaments. This whole lets give everybody a trophy crap is ruining everything. You don't have a good season you stay home and work towards next year. And btw the argument that these extra games and practices help the club is more bs. We already played 30 games. One or two more wont help. Let the returning players hit the weight room, work on free throws, etc.. What will help our team is another 2 or 3 years of recruiting better players.

UAB already gets to play in a guaranteed tournament at the end of the year being in Conference USA.

Don't need anymore unless it is earned.

(03-21-2014 12:20 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  UAB already gets to play in a guaranteed tournament at the end of the year being in Conference USA.

Don't need anymore unless it is earned.

Okay -- so which C-USA contracted bowl games are excluded from our list of bowls as too menial for UAB to play?

I don't endorse excluding any tournament or bowl game as being too far below us to participate. GO -- PLAY -- HAVE FUN -- WIN (if it happens) -- ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE.

(03-21-2014 03:01 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 12:20 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  UAB already gets to play in a guaranteed tournament at the end of the year being in Conference USA.

Don't need anymore unless it is earned.

Okay -- so which C-USA contracted bowl games are excluded from our list of bowls as too menial for UAB to play?

I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT FOOTBALL*




*enhanced for optimum geriatric readability.

(03-21-2014 10:53 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  So we should "get used" to these tournaments? In other words settle for lower tier. No way do I get used to these crap tournaments. If we ever do play on one, I will support the team in shame that we hVe sunk so low. I won't get used to it. Thats bull****

Best post of the year. These tournaments are embarrassing to the NCAA. Even the NIT...if a team wins it then they are basically the 65th or so best in the country. The CBI is only worse.

(03-21-2014 10:53 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  So we should "get used" to these tournaments? In other words settle for lower tier. No way do I get used to these crap tournaments. If we ever do play on one, I will support the team in shame that we hVe sunk so low. I won't get used to it. Thats bull****

THIS!!!!!!

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Yep. There were a lot of "mid major" type teams In the tourney this year. SLU just made an incredible comeback in a great game last night. The bison of SDSU just beat Oklahoma. Harvard took down Cincy. It sucks that we got stuck in a sucky conference, but we have to do something to compensate for it if we wanna make it in. If you still see schedules like this past season's and more losses to sub-200 teams, we don't deserve to get in

First, North Dakota State beat Oklahoma, not South Dakota St. Second, Harvard and NDST plays in just as sucky of a conference than UAB. Even the MWC only sent two teams to the tourney.

Sucky CUSA had nothing to do with UAB not getting in the Dance; that failure falls solely on the sucky play of the Blazers. We had the OOC wins but couldn't take care of business against the worst teams in the conference.

Let me cut out the second sentence of your post since including it would render my "20 point entry" in rebuttal total nonsense. You are supposed to read the whole post to get the point. I stand by my statement about both bowl games and BB tournaments.

(03-21-2014 06:12 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Yep. There were a lot of "mid major" type teams In the tourney this year. SLU just made an incredible comeback in a great game last night. The bison of SDSU just beat Oklahoma. Harvard took down Cincy. It sucks that we got stuck in a sucky conference, but we have to do something to compensate for it if we wanna make it in. If you still see schedules like this past season's and more losses to sub-200 teams, we don't deserve to get in

First, North Dakota State beat Oklahoma, not South Dakota St. Second, Harvard and NDST plays in just as sucky of a conference than UAB. Even the MWC only sent two teams to the tourney.

Sucky CUSA had nothing to do with UAB not getting in the Dance; that failure falls solely on the sucky play of the Blazers. We had the OOC wins but couldn't take care of business against the worst teams in the conference.

Even if we won all those 200+ games out rpi would've been in the 60s. We had good wins, but our ooc schedule did us no favors.

(03-21-2014 06:12 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Yep. There were a lot of "mid major" type teams In the tourney this year. SLU just made an incredible comeback in a great game last night. The bison of SDSU just beat Oklahoma. Harvard took down Cincy. It sucks that we got stuck in a sucky conference, but we have to do something to compensate for it if we wanna make it in. If you still see schedules like this past season's and more losses to sub-200 teams, we don't deserve to get in

First, North Dakota State beat Oklahoma, not South Dakota St. Second, Harvard and NDST plays in just as sucky of a conference than UAB. Even the MWC only sent two teams to the tourney.

Sucky CUSA had nothing to do with UAB not getting in the Dance; that failure falls solely on the sucky play of the Blazers. We had the OOC wins but couldn't take care of business against the worst teams in the conference.

I've never disagreed with you. We definitely weren't getting in, even if we beat all those crappy teams. If we had held on to beat NM then we would've had an interesting case, but then we wouldn't have been able to play and beat Nebraska in that scenario. Bottom line is we need better scheduling and to not lose to sh!tty teams.

(03-22-2014 10:21 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 06:12 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Yep. There were a lot of "mid major" type teams In the tourney this year. SLU just made an incredible comeback in a great game last night. The bison of SDSU just beat Oklahoma. Harvard took down Cincy. It sucks that we got stuck in a sucky conference, but we have to do something to compensate for it if we wanna make it in. If you still see schedules like this past season's and more losses to sub-200 teams, we don't deserve to get in

First, North Dakota State beat Oklahoma, not South Dakota St. Second, Harvard and NDST plays in just as sucky of a conference than UAB. Even the MWC only sent two teams to the tourney.

Sucky CUSA had nothing to do with UAB not getting in the Dance; that failure falls solely on the sucky play of the Blazers. We had the OOC wins but couldn't take care of business against the worst teams in the conference.

Even if we won all those 200+ games out rpi would've been in the 60s. We had good wins, but our ooc schedule did us no favors.

Also remember the fact we lost to MTSU twice, UTEP, & La Tech. Three of those games were at UAB. Win at least two of those games and take care of business against to 200+ teams and UAB would have had a resume worthy of an at-large bid discussion.

Our OOC schedule would have benefitted us had we taken care of business in the conference.

David Knox ‏@davideknox
According to http://TeamRankings.com , UAB was 8-2 vs spread as underdog and 4-13 as favorite.

(03-22-2014 03:18 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 10:21 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 06:12 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Yep. There were a lot of "mid major" type teams In the tourney this year. SLU just made an incredible comeback in a great game last night. The bison of SDSU just beat Oklahoma. Harvard took down Cincy. It sucks that we got stuck in a sucky conference, but we have to do something to compensate for it if we wanna make it in. If you still see schedules like this past season's and more losses to sub-200 teams, we don't deserve to get in

First, North Dakota State beat Oklahoma, not South Dakota St. Second, Harvard and NDST plays in just as sucky of a conference than UAB. Even the MWC only sent two teams to the tourney.

Sucky CUSA had nothing to do with UAB not getting in the Dance; that failure falls solely on the sucky play of the Blazers. We had the OOC wins but couldn't take care of business against the worst teams in the conference.

Even if we won all those 200+ games out rpi would've been in the 60s. We had good wins, but our ooc schedule did us no favors.

Also remember the fact we lost to MTSU twice, UTEP, & La Tech. Three of those games were at UAB. Win at least two of those games and take care of business against to 200+ teams and UAB would have had a resume worthy of an at-large bid discussion.

Our OOC schedule would have benefitted us had we taken care of business in the conference.

Look at rpiwizard.com. There isn't a lot this team could have done to have a solid rpi. We would have needed four or fewer losses. Our ooc schedule crushed us this year.

(03-22-2014 03:30 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  David Knox ‏@davideknox
According to http://TeamRankings.com , UAB was 8-2 vs spread as underdog and 4-13 as favorite.

Are you talking about Zero's football teams ?

(03-22-2014 04:04 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 03:18 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(03-22-2014 10:21 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 06:12 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(03-21-2014 10:22 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Yep. There were a lot of "mid major" type teams In the tourney this year. SLU just made an incredible comeback in a great game last night. The bison of SDSU just beat Oklahoma. Harvard took down Cincy. It sucks that we got stuck in a sucky conference, but we have to do something to compensate for it if we wanna make it in. If you still see schedules like this past season's and more losses to sub-200 teams, we don't deserve to get in

First, North Dakota State beat Oklahoma, not South Dakota St. Second, Harvard and NDST plays in just as sucky of a conference than UAB. Even the MWC only sent two teams to the tourney.

Sucky CUSA had nothing to do with UAB not getting in the Dance; that failure falls solely on the sucky play of the Blazers. We had the OOC wins but couldn't take care of business against the worst teams in the conference.

Even if we won all those 200+ games out rpi would've been in the 60s. We had good wins, but our ooc schedule did us no favors.

Also remember the fact we lost to MTSU twice, UTEP, & La Tech. Three of those games were at UAB. Win at least two of those games and take care of business against to 200+ teams and UAB would have had a resume worthy of an at-large bid discussion.

Our OOC schedule would have benefitted us had we taken care of business in the conference.

Look at rpiwizard.com. There isn't a lot this team could have done to have a solid rpi. We would have needed four or fewer losses. Our ooc schedule crushed us this year.

Yes it is. MTSU and La Tech had decent RPIs. You beat teams with decent RPIs your RPI gets better. You keep blaming our OOC schedule but UAB RPI got progressively worse in conference play. I don't know why you don't understand that our OOC didn't crush UAB. Our best wins came in OOC play. Our worse losses came in conference play.

It's because our ooc schedule had too many crappy games. Our rpi never stood a chance, even with the few good games we had. I really don't get why this is so complicated. Obviously losing to crap teams at home kills the rpi, I'm merely pointing out that if got those five wins our rpi would still be a huge issue.