JabbaNoBargain

Good post! I don’t doubt they’re astute. Doesn’t mean they didn’t hit the panic button when it came to fully considering the exit. It also occurs to me that they didn’t necessarily think through that nearly the entire league would be leaving, and would evolve into the absurd PIG2. At the very least, he should be criticized for not communicating with fellow exiting members to develop an exit strategy that dissolved the conference, there was definitely a sense of panic. All that being said, there’s still no excuse for canceling a home game and gifting a home game to someone at the very moment they're trying to pickpocket you. Again, it seemed like hitting the panic button and the reaction of a schoolboy that felt guilty. No pass from me on that.

The tourney units sound like they could ultimately come into question unless the PIG2 stand completely pat for up to 6 years. If they are stupid enough to not move on, and only hang on to dwindling dollars earned in a less lucrative era, instead of trying to find a way to make new dollars, it will not end well for them. These old dollars are pennies on the future dollars that are out there to be had. I’ll say again, IMO we should not have immediately donated a home game to them in year one. We gave up a home game and gave them a home game while in the midst of litigating our exit? That is insane IMO. We should have just skipped a year to let things settle down a bit…no one would die from skipping a year no matter how much tradition we have had.

Easy in hindsight. I didn’t have any huge issues with the field when it was announced aside from no conference should get 8 bids, ever. Seriously, do better than 8th place. Going in, everyone is guessing, no one knows if the 7th team from the SEC is worse than the 5th from the big east…but 8 is way too many for any conference. Give Indian State (for instance) one of those spots, whoever finished 8th in the SEC already had their shot.

Silver lining after double OT heartbreak 😂

Up by 4, with the ball and under a minute to go? Not sure what else to call that, Like I said, played with a lot of heart, really needed to not have half of our 8 players score zero, just not quite enough firepower. Couisnard set an all time conference scoring record (that was about 50 years old), and Dante was incredible. Great run.

Blew it, don’t inbound to Dante please. I don’t usually cry about the refs, but 5 free throw attempts in a double OT? Dante was fouled at least 10 times. Great run though, lot of heart!

Definitely feels like swimming upstream, everything is a struggle.

Creighton significantly better than USC

Oh they definitely play the same game with hoops, but the bigger the field the more it gets smoked out when it comes to playoffs.

They are still blood suckers, but it lessens the blow (to me at least) and would seem a lot worse if they were being cut a check for $30m one day after the tourney ended. At the end of the day, I don’t work in the administration, whether or not these morons get a semi-life raft doesn’t truly impact me other than it’s annoying. As a fan I’ll enjoy watching us host tOSU and being relevant while they try to convince everyone they aren’t a group of 5/6 because they pilfered $50m. That being said, shouldn’t have gifted the grifters a home game, that’s just being masochistic.

Fact that it is spread over 6 years eases the blow a bit for me. Who knows what portion of this they’ll retain in 5 years…have fun with all the bean counting as the units start to dry up PIG2.

Now let’s see if Nebraska takes out another one

And now Auburn goes down to Yale, SEC no doubt overrated.

SEC definitely trying to work the system like they do for football. Problem is, this strategy gets smoked out with a large field…you have to play good teams outside the comfort of your ecosystem when the tournament starts. Have to say though, they created a narrative that worked, but in truth the SEC as a conference was pretty on par (at best) with the PAC this year.

It’s probably going to be slightly less egregious with the expanded playoff. Of course that boils down to the selection process and if it genuinely uses SOS. They got away with it to tremendous advantage with the 4 team playoff. Only way they’ll stop is if SOS starts to hurt them, which it probably won’t. Blame the conferences that voluntarily put themselves at a disadvantage…they're apparently more concerned with conference championships than national titles.

What would be really fun is if for some reason one, but not the other is invited to the ACC or B12. Test the bonds of their loser brotherhood.

PIG2. War chest is a bit hilarious, more of a survival fund. Somehow, a pretend conference with no tv deal, is going to be able to rebuild into a power conference and attract new members because they give Nevada and Fresno State a million dollars? August can’t get here soon enough.

Some pretty funny takes there. The ranked team with 8 losses from the conference everyone that matters loves had the universe aligned against them. Interesting. Guard play is paramount, especially in the tournament. Thing is, you have to have more than one way to win in a tournament. A big man listed at 6’8” (not) and 260 (not) is probably not going to work out.

Nice!

Dante licking his chops, their big man listed as 6’8 260…I call even those measurements into question. Looking good!

Good half, still think that shot was not away in time. We could still lose, but this makes me question how good the SEC actually was. These guys finished 1 game out of first in a conference with 5 ranked teams? These guys clearly aren’t superior to us by any stretch.

Turnovers are out of control, that can’t continue

A methodical opponent with an undersized (height wise) center? Like it

This is why as a fan, I’ve evolved to not getting remotely attached to any names on the roster until August. Macro recruiting? Absolutely. Details of individual players? Nope.

No one should be overly confident this year. Three #1 seeds had a loss in March. There are like 50 teams with 8-12 losses, nobody knows anything.