Red Wolf

3 minutes ago, See Red said:

It would be a compelling argument if UConn was eking out wins against Arkansas, SDSU, Miami, etc. Not when they're trouncing them the way they did.

Exactly. Arkansas was a good team and they were dead in the water. Miami was a good team as well and never stood a chance. Why would Texas, Houston, or Kansas fare any better? Because we've heard of them?

18 hours ago, GDAWG said:

People are saying that Angel Reese and Kaitlyn Clark are the future of the WNBA.  I can see that with the way they played in the tournament.  

Caitlin. Is there a name that is spelled in more different ways?

17 hours ago, Unocal said:

Worst. Tournament. Ever.

 

All these wacky upsets just to give us a Final Four that was UConn and 3 Jokers.

 

This is what happens when you have too many upsets.

Is it?

The upsets happened because the other teams weren't special. If they were they would have won. Did you really expect big things from Purdue? If they were capable they wouldn't have lost to Fairleigh Dickinson, a team I had only heard of because their logo is a chess piece. In a normal year FDU wouldn't have even been in the tournament.

Houston was beat down by Miami. It wasn't close. Would a Houston matchup have actually been any better?

Alabama got beat by San Diego State and it wasn't that close.

KU lost to Arkansas in a close one, but Arkansas was underperforming before tourney time. Why would a team that lost to Arkansas not lose by 20+ to UConn?

Who was supposed to realistically stand up to UConn here? Upsets got nothing to do with it.

4 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

Didn’t it have something to do with Arkansas State? 

Yeah, that's right. Both ASU's were held down by the political forces trying to prop up UA. In spite of that both ASU's managed to become universities. Suck it, UA (pick one).

Also, Sun Devils are sick as hell. Wildcats? Lame.

1 hour ago, Gary said:

reading this thread and I swear we have the highest alumni rate at ASU now that the ghost of Norm is a student. Sorry random brain

And I pretended to be an Arizona State fan at some point. I forget why that happened. I think something embarrassing happened to Arizona. Maybe when they got their ass beat by Buffalo in the tourney?

2 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

Ratings... Like CBS is going to shred their contract and cancel next year's tournament if they don't draw for SDSU/FAU.

They're doomed. All fired.

I think sports ratings are even less interesting to me than wrestling's which is saying something.

1 hour ago, GriffinM6 said:

Man, what a ride it's been. I don't think I've been that nervous watching a sporting event since Game 7 of the '09 Stanley Cup Final. I know the odds are stacked against us, but it just seems like a "Team of Destiny" thing right now. Only next weekend will tell, but damn, does it feel amazing to make it this far. 

I'm happy to see Norchad get to show what he can do on a national stage. He was wasted at Arkansas State under our now former coach. We had two starters transfer away and start for an Elite Eight and Final Four team. With our bum-ass coach they were finishing sixth in the one-bid Sun Belt.

But guys, think of the TV ratings and those poor execs running CBS!

5 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

Wasn't Marquette in C-USA in 2003?

Even better, the Derrick Rose-led Memphis Tigers were in C-USA in 2008 when they lost to Kansas in the final.

1 hour ago, Unocal said:

 

But is the lack of powerhouses a good thing?

 

This feels like college basketball's version of 2007 college football when we had too many upsets

The college football season that people constantly talk about how legendary and special it was all the time, even over a decade later? Sounds good to me.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm too much of a nerd, and then somebody talks about TV ratings and I realize that I'm not the most annoying nerd in the room.

On 3/18/2023 at 7:18 PM, tBBP said:

 

And what a game it was!

 

I've actually been able to catch a good many of these games due to being snowed in...caught that one from top to bottom. The fact that Arkansas pulled off that comeback with dang near half their players either in foul trouble or completely fouled out (Kansas was in the bonus with about 10:00 to go in the game) was huge for them. Not that I have anything against the Jayhawks, but as a current enrollee and future Sooie Pig alumnus, naturally I have  a vested interest in all things Hogs these days, so...WOO PIG SOOIE!!!

 

^{(Now of course the question is can they finally break through the glass ceiling at the Sweet 16?)}

To be fair, Arkansas' current glass ceiling is getting through the Elite Eight. They went there the last two seasons.

I remember telling people that Muss was going to be big for Arkansas. Hog fans were skeptical but I've clearly been vindicated. Maybe they were right to be skeptical since I tried to tell them that Chad Morris would be solid, and instead he was the most hilariously bad football coach of all time.

35 minutes ago, Cujo said:

Tf is Charleston wearing? "College." Shame on Under Armor

 

The College

7 hours ago, Burmy said:

Whole reason they went down to FCS is because they presumed that, because of their previous FBS status, they would be perennial national title contenders on the lower level.

As you can tell, that has not happened...I don't think they've even made the playoffs since relegating.

The reason they dropped down wasn't about potentially winning in FCS, it was about not wanting to be an FBS independent. Putting together an independent schedule when you don't have the name brand of Notre Dame, Army, or BYU is a nightmare. That's why New Mexico State and Liberty played twice in the regular season back in 2019.

Las Cruces, New Mexico is a hard place to get teams to come out to play at if they aren't compelled to by a conference. NMSU was able to count on visits from one of UTEP or New Mexico every year.

Who's coming to Moscow, Idaho regularly? They could get games against Washington State easily enough, but not on their side of the border. Boise State stopped playing Idaho the moment they weren't in the same conference. And in case you're wondering, they had seven seasons to rectify that. They could have gotten NMSU up there (again, they played a team twice in a single season) every other year, but now that the Aggies have a conference home that would be more difficult.

The other independents during that timeframe are either too good to go to Moscow, or are too far to want to go there. They could probably get games with Liberty and UMass. Maybe UConn as a longshot (they didn't play NMSU during their indy phase). After that, you've got Notre Dame, Army, and BYU, all of whom have little trouble filling out a schedule, certainly not enough of an issue for them to need to play in the land of lentils.

14 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

The XFL should know by now that Paxton Lynch sucks.  

Recently saw where he's been benched in the NFL, CFL, XFL, and USFL. Pretty impressive for a former NFL first-rounder.

I wish I could be outraged and unleash some holier than thou rant, but I watch football and wrestling, which are full of depressing stories of people's brains being destroyed.

14 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Do Giants fans really dye their dongs blue?

 

 

Big(?) Blue indeed

50 minutes ago, Cujo said:

 

I'll say it again.. Urban Meyer was bad, but his downfall and subsequent firing was 99% based on ethics, not with Xs and Os. He was given a 1-15 team and went 2-11. 

 

Nathaniel Hackett inherited a 7-win team, a HOF QB and Top 10 defense. This guy ran the last minute of regulation down to attempt a 64-yard GW field goal and his clock management skills were to terrible, they hired a coach to babysit him. Fans even started counting the play clock to help . Two things we've never seen before on this level! Add to that a 4-11 record. 15 PPG. Put him on the 2021 Jags and they win 0 games.

Hackett is the fastest I've ever wanted a coach gone. The strategery based on a 64-yard field goal was enough for me. I think the play clock chant was from the same game where they had to waste a timeout because they forgot to send out a punt returner. Still in that same game they were sitting around deciding whether to kick a field goal or go for it, and took so long that they got a delay and couldn't effectively do either so they just punted.

Georgia struggled more with Kent State, a MAC team that finished with a losing record. Really makes it feel like the Bulldogs were just dicking around most of the season.

3 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

This is really too bad. It’s one thing to lose and lose big, but to just get absolutely embarrassed like this in the National Championship game is another thing. This feels like it could potentially be one of those program set back games for TCU, even. Bummer. 

Making this game is well beyond what most people would think TCU's ceiling is, so it's not all bad. But yeah, I think they're going to lose a lot of the goodwill they earned with a truly wild season.

My current theory is that Sonny Dykes made a deal with the devil to make TCU great for 2022, neglecting the fact that the title game is in 2023.

Well... It was a fun season at least.

21 minutes ago, rams80 said:

 

Yeah, the cartel isn't gonna let that one fly.

The upcoming system guarantees a G5 school gets in, which is honestly shocking. I never thought it would happen. We'll probably never get the dream of NCAA Gamebreaker 2000's 16-team playoff with all conferences getting auto-bids, but getting any playoff at all was kind of a win honestly.

4 hours ago, McCall said:

There are clearly 3 levels of football at the moment; Power 5, Group of 5 and FCS. You can't deny this. How's separating them into those 3 levels so that all of a respective shot at a championship dropping anyone down? So because they're better than FCS they have to settle for losing at FBS? Just like they separated Division I into 2 different divisions before, it's time, based on the current state of college football, to separate them into thirds.

They don't have to settle for that, but they choose to. If they wanted to be wholly separate from the P5 they would be. Nobody from the G5 has any interest in a self-demotion.

7 hours ago, Burmy said:

Would you rather keep denying Group of Five teams a legitimate chance at a national championship?

If they wanted to play FCS ball they would.

2 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

 

I feel as though we’re supposed to want Ohio State-Alabama every year and everyone has a brain freeze when it’s not.

I'm having the opposite of a brain freeze. My brain thawed and came to life watching TCU bring its brand of silly football to the CFP. The only way I could be happier is if a random Sun Belt team, like say Arkansas State were to be TCU's opposition. Just a random team I picked for no reason.

25 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

Having Artis Gilmore on that team was a big help.

Dad...?

This has been an amazing season of college football. Multiple weeks felt like all-timers for nonsense. 2007 is lauded as the standard-bearer of wacky football, but it didn't stick the landing. We went into the final week of 07 with Mizzou vs. West Virginia as a potential title game, and ended with LSU vs. Ohio State.

This year, TCU is playing for the national championship. 2022 has been a special season. It's rare that the most exciting team in any sport comes this close to a title. I feel like this is the sort of thing I'll tell my hypothetical kids about the weirdness of my time like my dad telling me that Jacksonville once made a Final Four.

Just now, infrared41 said:

The worst thing in sports is having hope when you weren't even expecting to have a chance. Going in, I honestly thought the Buckeyes would lose by ten or more. All I was hoping for was to not be embarrassed. Oh well, no shame in losing by one to the defending national champions, but I could have done without the gut-wrenching part.

The worst thing is apathy. False hope is a very close second though.

I think it's fun to point out that Georgia's toughest opponents this year were outside the South. Mizzou, Kentucky, Kent St, and Ohio St gave the Bulldogs their toughest tests. It probably means nothing, but it's neat.