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10-21-2024, 06:51 PM #71...he went up late, and I was already up there.
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10-21-2024, 08:01 PM #72
I don’t miss the A10. At all. I thought then, and still think now, that the people in leadership roles need their houses checked for lead. It actually has some solid programs that care about basketball and are at least ambitious in wanting to be successful. Three programs have actually been to Final Fours in the last 15-20 years or so, and three more have been to Elite Eights. That’s actually pretty good. But the thing is that none of them other than UD’s run (where they just barely made it in to the NCAAs) did it while they were actually members of the A10. Loyola Chicago was in the MVC, and Mason and VCU were in the Colonial. Davidson was in the SoCon during their run.
They’ve also got too many teams that just don’t give a shit about basketball, and are just (poorly) going through the motions. And the most frustrating thing is it always felt like this was who the conference was catering to. I remember being astounded when I learned Duquesne and Fordham were somehow getting bigger NCAA Tournament shares than Xavier was. It just seemed ridiculous!
Dayton does at least care. As much as they seem to chap X’s ass, it was always Fordham and Duquesne that chapped mine. Having said that, Dayton has a power conference level basketball budget. It pretty much dwarfs the rest of the A10. They play 6 buy games and 18 conference games. That’s 24 games against teams they should almost always have a notable advantage over, and it’s not even including the conference tournament. If they aren’t winning at least 20 of those a year, they’re kind of underachieving. When you consider the other 6 or 7 games on their schedule as well as the conference and postseason tournaments, 25 wins should pretty much be the expectation. Anything short of that may not be a failure, but it sure as hell isn’t a success. Yet they’ve failed to do it in six of the last eight years. That’s just not good enough. Once they do they five or six years in a row, which they really should expect to do and be able to given all the advantages they have, then they’ll have a bigger national brand like they think they should."You can't fix stupid." Ron White
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10-21-2024, 08:13 PM #73"I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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10-21-2024, 08:15 PM #74"I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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10-21-2024, 08:22 PM #75"I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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10-21-2024, 08:27 PM #76
Anyway, always good to win at UDump Arena, no matter the stakes.
"I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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