i say what i believe anyone who thinks this team is winning the last three games needs a shrink. this team is going to nit ill put my money down for anyone willing to take that bet . im sure no one will step up and take it
No one will step up and aknowledge you, let alone take you up on a bet. Has your intense basketball masterbation reached a climax for you yet? Jesus, Mary, and all that is holy what is the point to pound your chest after we lose. I am teetering on banning myself because we have too many fans who would rather us lose and say "I told you so" than have this team go ona liftle run and make the NCAA's and be proven wrong.
Congrats, you are right.
The funny thing about this post, Kranmars, and I agree with you 100 percent, btw, is how many of these people actually thought we were a Top 68 team before the season started? After we lost to SF? After we lost to UNC-Ashville? After we lost to Rutgers at MSG? These same people screaming about how crappy we are and how "embarrassing" the NIT is are the people who seem to have these lofty unrealistic expectation themselves. wrong just not homers.
I'm a Mets, Jets, Islanders, SJU and Tottenham fan. For those of you crying about, "poor me, my teams suck..." Grow up. Go root for Syracuse or Duke. I didn't get the chance to watch the game, I had to follow it on my phone while out with my family, so I stupidly decided to go through the game thread to get some inkling of an idea of how the game "really" went. Some of you would be hilarious, if you weren't so sad.
We got crushed. I think the reaction is 100% warranted on here and this is why: SJ is like someone who got lost in a huge desert and is slowly dying. You try to find water anywhere...walking for days and days STARVING of thirst. You finally spot what appears to be a body of water, but it turns out to be a mirage. After a decade of pathetic failure (and 2011 really resulted in nothing so don't bring that up) we finally get a new coach, finally start recruiting with the other top 25 teams, finally get the buzz back that we can seriously compete again, knock off a few good ranked teams, dominate USF, then come in and lay an absolute egg against Pitt at HOME. I thought the team had grown too much to get their butts wiped by a #20 team at home. That is a borderline ranked team and it just goes to show you how far away we really are. By the way I never said the team deserved a winner, I said us FANS deserve much better than this. Can anyone handle NY expectations anymore? I mean seriously. It makes me wonder how my favorite teams used to succeed. Today we played like the typical pushover SJ team of the past decade. I had a terrible feeling about this game before and now I know why. We are not even close to seriously competing. I want to be Nova, I want to be Pitt, I want to be G'Town, I want to be Memphis. Is that really so much to ask with all our resources and huge basketball culture here?
Just to make the tourney feels like I have better odds winning the lotto, and to be ranked or go deep into the tourney seems as likely as Tupac coming back to life. I know many of you don't like stone cold realists. You don't like being awoken from your Final Four dreams with a cold splash of humble reality that was today's game. I do not root against this team. I want this team to succeed probably more than anyone on this board. But it's games like this that really scream "Same old Johnnies". One litmus test I use to try and figure out whether we are a good team or not is trying to picture myself as the opponent's fan then asking myself "Am I scared of SJ?" my answer would be "no". If I was a Pitt/G'Town/Cuse/L'Ville/Marquette fan I wouldn't even drop a bead of sweat seeing SJ on the other side of the scoreboard. We are like cupcakes to them. You guys talk about such lofty goals for this team...we can't even make the tourney. Let's focus on that first. If we don't make it next year, it will really set us back even more.