Thanks I needed this

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AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks.  I needed that.  I can't figure out the Maryland Terps b-ball team.   :(  :p

[Jeff]

Indeed.  Good thing your coach is such a mild-mannered gent and can take all this inconsistency in stride.   :D

How would you like to be on the NCAA selection committee and figure out where to seed Maryland?

Thankfully, in Tallahassee college baseball season has arrived and we can put away the nightmare of college hoops.

[marc]

How would you like to be on the NCAA selection committee and figure out where to seed Maryland?

That's an easy one.  Just put them in the NIT.   :p   Make room for more Big East schools.  After all, we've proven this year that you can take Big East bottom-feeders, put them in the ACC, and they'll become contenders. :;):

[Mere Nick]

How would you like to be on the NCAA selection committee and figure out where to seed Maryland?

That's an easy one.  Just put them in the NIT.   :p   Make room for more Big East schools.  After all, we've proven this year that you can take Big East bottom-feeders, put them in the ACC, and they'll become contenders. :;):

Why doesn't the Big East make room for itself by beating ACC teams?  Who are the former Big Easters that are contending in the ACC, anyway?  Ya still got the big three of UNC, Duke and Wake.

Notice how teams from the Big East consider moving to the ACC but not in the other direction?  That tells me which conference is considered the better of the two by the folks in the business.

Even Ric Flair knew it was best to rassle in an ACC state.  We have the learned and cultured upbringing necessary to appreciate a good eye-gouge, tastefully done.

[marc]

Maybe the direction of the movement says a lot about where the money is in college sports (football).

Hey, I see Va Tech, who had serious trouble even making the Big East tournament year after year is over .500 and in fourth, and Miami, where the basketball players sometimes get confused and show up in pads, is at .500.  

I don't know about the rest of the Big East, btw, but WVU played one ACC team this year (NC State) and knocked them off handily down at their place.  Va Tech refused to even play them on a neutral court this year. :p

[Bon Voyage]

Keep Talking about the ACC and the Big East.

The Big Ten is where its at.

And Nick, Natch is from Minnesota.  A Big Ten State.

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Now, boys, boys -  you have to behave.....

I still suffering and the bantering is hurting my head....:p :D

Now to important issues....Marc, please, the Big East has always been well, the Big Easy for us in the ACC (my Terps excluded).  

As for the tournament selection committee - I don't know what to tell them.  The dual personality team of the Terps has everyone scratching their heads.  I think it has something to do with emotional maturity on the part of the team individually and collectively - thinking John Gilchrist here.

Oh well, we'll just have to wait and see.

And, Marc, I'm only kidding.  Er, um, who is left in the Big East anyway?

[Mere Nick]

Keep Talking about the ACC and the Big East.

The Big Ten is where its at.

And Nick, Natch is from Minnesota.  A Big Ten State.

Flair repented.

[Mere Nick]

Maybe the direction of the movement says a lot about where the money is in college sports (football).

Hey, I see Va Tech, who had serious trouble even making the Big East tournament year after year is over .500 and in fourth, and Miami, where the basketball players sometimes get confused and show up in pads, is at .500.  

I don't know about the rest of the Big East, btw, but WVU played one ACC team this year (NC State) and knocked them off handily down at their place.  Va Tech refused to even play them on a neutral court this year. :p

Our firm used to do certain accounting work for a university sports conference.  Basketball, not football, made the money for them.

Less players, more games, tournament dough, etc.  

I would be shocked if football brought in more money than basketball to Carolina, Duke or Wake.  Well, given their football programs, I'd be surprised if football netted more money than a randomly chosen foosball table in one of their dorms.  Especially Duke football.  

I was at the WVU-NC State game.  State didn't have Hodges out there playing and it showed.  WVU bragging about that win is like you or me bragging about whupping some dude because when we went to fight him we find him already beat up and we just have to lay an arm across him for the three count.

[marc]

(not mentioning the last two NCAA championships. . . )

WVU just won at Pitt, so maybe they'll get to play another ACC team in the tourney.  At 17-8, and a 7-7 conference record with games left against Rutgers and Seton Hall, they should make it unless they get upset.  One positive is that they play a team game, so one player out isn't going to destoy the team.

As far as money goes, it was a money deal for the teams going to the ACC and for the league itself.  The basketball schools were the losers there.  That was wholly a football deal; I'm not sure the conference realized how much it would lose in basketball prestige down the line.

btw, I could be wrong, but I believe the Big East is 5-2 in head to head matchups against ACC teams this year, with two of those wins coming from lowly St. John's. :cool:

On a serious note, though, WVU's coach has done a tremendous job getting the team to where it is now.  He came in after the previous coach, who had been there for decades, quit when he couldn't get control of his players.  Coach Beilein cleaned house, recruited good people, kicked the team's leading scorer off the team in mid-season when he threw a tantrum about not being allowed to stay in a game to continue a personal scoring streak, then didn't show up at the meeting scheduled to talk about it, and turned the team into a balanced winner.  The one player he kept from the previous regime, senior Tyrone Salley, is the consumate team player who had to be convinced to start taking shots, and is now the team's leading scorer (not by a lot).

Beilein's brought class to the program, and, even though the talent's not quite there, I hope they make the NCAA's this year and show that sometimes the wins come when you just take care of business and do things right.

[marc]

Now, boys, boys -  you have to behave.....

I still suffering and the bantering is hurting my head....:p :D

Now to important issues....Marc, please, the Big East has always been well, the Big Easy for us in the ACC (my Terps excluded).  

As for the tournament selection committee - I don't know what to tell them.  The dual personality team of the Terps has everyone scratching their heads.  I think it has something to do with emotional maturity on the part of the team individually and collectively - thinking John Gilchrist here.

Oh well, we'll just have to wait and see.

And, Marc, I'm only kidding.  Er, um, who is left in the Big East anyway?

Hey, why wasn't Maryland on WVU's schedule this year, anyway?     Seems it would have been a good year to have them there.

[marc]

Keep Talking about the ACC and the Big East.

The Big Ten is where its at.

And Nick, Natch is from Minnesota.  A Big Ten State.

Yeah, the Big Ten.  There's Illinois, and, uh. . . .  :D

Think they can win it all?  I'm not sure there are any great teams out there, so they might just breeze.  Who knows?

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Marc

Hey, why wasn't Maryland on WVU's schedule this year, anyway?      Seems it would have been a good year to have them there.

I'm not so sure.  Seems Maryland can play in big games and then not show up on days they're expected to win.  Talk about frustrating!!!!  By the way, which team in the Big East do you cotton to the most?  (An old phrase my dad use to say)

[Bon Voyage]

I would also be careful with MSU, if they beat Wisconsin and restore some confidence.

[marc]

Marc

Hey, why wasn't Maryland on WVU's schedule this year, anyway?      Seems it would have been a good year to have them there.

I'm not so sure.  Seems Maryland can play in big games and then not show up on days they're expected to win.  Talk about frustrating!!!!  By the way, which team in the Big East do you cotton to the most?  (An old phrase my dad use to say)

WVU.  So we won't talk about any football played before last season.   :D

Actually, the way last season went, it may be best to not mention football at all (at least until we see if the running back who, in a fit of insanity, chose WVU over Ohio State and USC, even after receiving a phone call during the post-Orange Bowl celebration from Pete Carroll, saves the team and the league single-handedly). :cool:

[marc]

Looks like WVU's going dancin'.  Second-round tournament win over BC today (with WVU's leading scorer Salley out with the flu), 20th win of the season, puts them 2 over in conference.

In the last minute, the MSG crowd chanted "ACC" over and over.   :p

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Marc -

I'm fightin' the blues.......

Congrats to WVU.  I hope you guys go far.......or at least until you run into an ACC team!  :D

[marc]

Thanks.

Big East Finals!!!!

(this is a pretty shocking run.)

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Marc -

I duff my hat to WVU.  Great playing.  Onto the dance!!

Steve

[marc]

Well it happened.  Two overtimes to beat Wake Forest.

And I'm too tired to even think about it.  I can at least celebrate virtually.

:clap:  

Bring on Bobby Knight & Texas Tech.  WVU will be a bit farther from home this time.

[Mere Nick]

Well it happened.  Two overtimes to beat Wake Forest.

And I'm too tired to even think about it.  I can at least celebrate virtually.

:clap:  

Bring on Bobby Knight & Texas Tech.  WVU will be a bit farther from home this time.

I was for Wake.  I watched about the last three minutes of regular time and the overtimes.  If it was a fist fight I would have figured it was WVU that showed up on the Wake front porch calling them out into the street.  The team playing to win certainly has an edge on the team playing to not lose.

But then we faithful to the true ACC religion got our revenge by the Wolfpack slaughtering UCONN in a three point blow out.

[Bon Voyage]

The true ACC religion?  ::

Everyone knows that the true religion is Big 10 religion.   :disco:

[Mere Nick]

The Big Ten is of the denominations.

[Bon Voyage]

The Big Ten is of the Denominations?

::

I thought the ACC, standed for the American Catholic Conference. :crackup:

[Mere Nick]

No.  The ACC is the true and all others are the inovators and digressives.  

Come out from among them and be ye separate.

[boringoldguy]

Well it happened.  Two overtimes to beat Wake Forest.

And I'm too tired to even think about it.  I can at least celebrate virtually.

:clap:  

Bring on Bobby Knight & Texas Tech.  WVU will be a bit farther from home this time.

Albuquerque is practically a home game for Tech.   I'm betting the crowd will be huge.

I don't know if it's going to matter much, however.  

We'll see what the General has up his sleeve.

[Bon Voyage]

I always thought the people at IU were a bunch of idiots for letting the General go.

[Mere Nick]

I guess some were all choked up about it.

[marc]

Albuquerque is practically a home game for Tech.   I'm betting the crowd will be huge.

That's what I'm afraid of.  WVU had the home crowd in Cleveland--even more so than you would have noticed on television, according to WVU's announcers--due to a combination of proximity and Ganzey, who scored 19 points in the overtimes against Wake, being from Cleveland.

That'll be turned around Thursday.

[boringoldguy]

Ronald Ross,  our big guy lately,   is from Hobbs, N.M.   That's quite a ways from Albuquerque,  but still . . .

Ross started out as a walk-on, btw.

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Marc

Congrats to WVU!!!  Truly great run they're having.  

As to the ACC (Actual Calvinistic Christians   :whistle: - just kidding Nick) we still have NCS, UNC and Duke (although rooting for Duke is not easy nor should it ever be).

My brackets are obliterated.  I'm part of a team bracket in the ESPN contest.  My personal bracket is listed in 2,452,593rd place!!!  I'm not kidding.  Whoa - talk about a blow to the ego.  

I still have Duke, UNC and Illinois in the Final 4 though.  With apologies to Marc.

To WVU -  


:clap:

[Mere Nick]

Marc

Congrats to WVU!!!  Truly great run they're having.  

As to the ACC (Actual Calvinistic Christians   :whistle: - just kidding Nick) we still have NCS, UNC and Duke (although rooting for Duke is not easy nor should it ever be).

My brackets are obliterated.  I'm part of a team bracket in the ESPN contest.  My personal bracket is listed in 2,452,593rd place!!!  I'm not kidding.  Whoa - talk about a blow to the ego.  

I still have Duke, UNC and Illinois in the Final 4 though.  With apologies to Marc.

To WVU -  


:clap:

Rooting for Duke may not always be easy, but it's always right.

[coachk]

Rooting for Duke may not always be easy, but it's always right.

Amen.

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Rooting for Duke may not always be easy, but it's always right.

Nick -

My Maryland grad son would take a slightly different view.  

With apologies to all you Duke fans, Nick and Coachk - they're just a wonderful team to root against.  They have my respect, but not my heart.

Good luck to you guys.  I'm watching the NIT tomorrow (Maryland v. Davidson) - go figure.   :doh:   :cry:

[Bon Voyage]

I want Duke to lose.  Not because I hate Duke, but because I am a Michigan State fan.