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[GTAdawg]

Damn some of you guys need a bit of a gut check on the men’s team. Just the beginning of this year the general expectation was to make the tourney...and we accomplished that. Comfortably at that. Look, the NCAA is one of the greatest sporting events in the world. Anything can and likely will happen in the form of upsets. Liberty had a couple guys catch fire and it is what it is. Losing to a 12 seed is not uncommon. Don’t focus on this. Focus on an appreciation for Q and Aric to helping us become viable again and pulling the program out of the mess RR put us in.

I for one am optimistic that with the likes of Perry, Carter, Peters, Ado, and others returning that we have an opportunity to be back in the tourney again. After that, it’s roll the dice.

support this program and go buy some season tickets next year. We make a difference to those players in our house.

 

[MSUDC11]

That’s my issue with Ben. He’s met the bare minimum expectation level, but has done nothing to exceed it. And in a year he’d been building to for years, we had zero signature wins and a first round loss to Liberty. And now we lose our best player and possibly a few others.

Wasn’t a bad year at all, but I also don’t think it was a very fulfilling one. In 10 years the only thing anyone will remember about this season is that we lost to Liberty.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

There’s that “embrace the mediocrity” that is so common with our fan base.

 

[Seinfeld]

I don’t disagree with anything you posted. General hope/expectations at the beginning of this season were to make the dance as a decent seed, and we accomplished that. Once you get there, anything can happen

Problem I have is this...

2015 class # 22
2016 class # 10
2017 class # 65 - really only had one spot to fill, and we signed Nick
2018 class # 16

From all that, all we could muster this year was to end the year unranked and lose in the first round to Liberty?

Everybody can say what they want about how Howland performed based on what he had to work with this season, but that’s not great use of 4 years of recruiting talent no matter how you slice and dice it. It’s just not

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Agreed. I didn’t see much coaching last night. We had our way under the basket early. Even though were missing a lot we should have forced the issue inside all game long.

And don’t even get me started on our defense. That used to be a Howland signature. I’m not heart broken over this loss at all. I’m disgusted at that **** performance.
It was Pathetic.

 

[tired]

There’s that “embrace the mediocrity” that is so common with our fan base.

Agree

 

[maroonmania]

Damn some of you guys need a bit of a gut check on the men’s team. Just the beginning of this year the general expectation was to make the tourney...and we accomplished that. Comfortably at that. Look, the NCAA is one of the greatest sporting events in the world. Anything can and likely will happen in the form of upsets. Liberty had a couple guys catch fire and it is what it is. Losing to a 12 seed is not uncommon. Don’t focus on this. Focus on an appreciation for Q and Aric to helping us become viable again and pulling the program out of the mess RR put us in.

I for one am optimistic that with the likes of Perry, Carter, Peters, Ado, and others returning that we have an opportunity to be back in the tourney again. After that, it’s roll the dice.

support this program and go buy some season tickets next year. We make a difference to those players in our house.

Recurring theme, every time we do make the tourney we seemingly lose to a lower seeded team that has someone "catch fire". I guess that's why we haven't made it out of the first weekend of the tournament in 23 years.

 

[DAWG61]

Recurring theme, every time we do make the tourney we seemingly lose to a lower seeded team that has someone "catch fire". I guess that's why we haven't made it out of the first weekend of the tournament in 23 years.

Historically we aren't a good basketball program. We're tied for 97th in the nation for most tourney appearances and have one of the longest sweet 16 droughts of all P5 teams yet somehow our fans think we are just below the blue bloods in program relevance and pout about not meeting unrealistic expectations by not attending games. It's like our one final four appearance has permanently broken our fan base.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

There’s that “embrace the mediocrity” that is so common with our fan base.

Use of this word should be a bannable offense, especially when they obviously do not know what the word actually means.

 

[Dawgcap]

Agreed. I didn’t see much coaching last night. We had our way under the basket early. Even though were missing a lot we should have forced the issue inside all game long.

And don’t even get me started on our defense. That used to be a Howland signature. I’m not heart broken over this loss at all. I’m disgusted at that **** performance.
It was Pathetic.

What you say about Kansas? Bad game tough breaks?

 

[Dawgcap]

Oh and most importantly poor coaching and worthless players? It’s the tournament. It sucked we lost. But damn **** happens.