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RE: 2/5 Rankings: UC #6, WSU #22, Houston Receiving Votes
(02-05-2018 01:47 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 01:43 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 01:22 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 12:38 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 12:35 PM)geef Wrote:  It's where we should be. We're closer to 5 than to 7, and the team at 5 (Xavier) beat us earlier this year. All good.

Not just beat, destroyed. Perhaps the weakest #6 team in the history of rankings?

What's even more hilarious is how on earth we're still ranked. We're barely a top 40 team right now.


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I see we've reached the stage in the tantrum where we are tearing everybody else down now.

I'm not there yet. I still have a grasp on objectivity, but it is tenuous.

You'd have to walk a mile in a Shocker's shoes to feel what we feel. A typical Shocker team (by typical I mean what we have been enjoying the last half decade) would have beaten the Temple team I watched on television the other day by 30. Yes, yes... I know Temple has beaten some solid teams at different points in the year. But the Temple team I watched the other evening would have been beaten into submission... similar to what we did to Houston at home.

We've shown flashes of our old self this year, but mostly it's been on and off, on and off, like a flickering light bulb nearing the end of its journey.

The vast majority in this conference have seen maybe half a dozen Shocker games over the years. Frankly, you all are not even qualified to speak on the issue of what the Shockers can and can't do. We KNOW what all of the AAC teams have done over the last half decade save for UConn... and that's nothing.

Just to be clear...a typical Wichita State team would be more like last year's team than this year's team, right?

A typical Wichita State team doesn't look soft. A typical Wichita State team NEVER gets pushed around. A typical Wichita State team takes a 10 pt. lead then proceeds to step on the throat of the opponent turning it into 20. A typical Wichita State team absolutely flummoxes their opponent's offensive gameplan enjoying a significant turnover advantage. (we put up 18 TO's against Houston 03-lmfao). If there's anything a Gregg Marshall team does best, it's take care of the ball. I've seen more sloppy passes in the last couple weeks than I've seen in 8 years.

(02-05-2018 01:50 PM)geef Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 01:43 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 01:22 PM)stxrunner Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 12:38 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 12:35 PM)geef Wrote:  It's where we should be. We're closer to 5 than to 7, and the team at 5 (Xavier) beat us earlier this year. All good.

Not just beat, destroyed. Perhaps the weakest #6 team in the history of rankings?

What's even more hilarious is how on earth we're still ranked. We're barely a top 40 team right now.


T


...03-cool

I see we've reached the stage in the tantrum where we are tearing everybody else down now.

I'm not there yet. I still have a grasp on objectivity, but it is tenuous.

You'd have to walk a mile in a Shocker's shoes to feel what we feel. A typical Shocker team (by typical I mean what we have been enjoying the last half decade) would have beaten the Temple team I watched on television the other day by 30. Yes, yes... I know Temple has beaten some solid teams at different points in the year. But the Temple team I watched the other evening would have been beaten into submission... similar to what we did to Houston at home.

We've shown flashes of our old self this year, but mostly it's been on and off, on and off, like a flickering light bulb nearing the end of its journey.

The vast majority in this conference have seen maybe half a dozen Shocker games over the years. Frankly, you all are not even qualified to speak on the issue of what the Shockers can and can't do. We KNOW what all of the AAC teams have done over the last half decade save for UConn... and that's nothing.

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Nothing screams nouveau riche like justifying your place at the big boy table based upon a "half decade", or five whole years.

My entire argument is based on the last 6-7 years. WTF other reference point would I be using to base my argument on? The way the Shockers played with Xavier McDaniel and Antoine Carr in the 80's?

I've never once pitted the Shockers tradition against UConn or Cincy on a 100 year time horizon. Everything I've been chirping about is the reputation that has been built over the last 6-7 years. Our teams look exactly the same every year, play exactly the same every year, and excel in the NCAA tournament every year relative to their horrific seeding. Nothing more; nothing less.

The play of the Shockers over the last month or so is starkly different than any of us have seen in over half a decade. If you watched hundreds of Shocker games over this time span, you'd be able to see it easily as well. There's a clear difference between the Shockers getting beat by a better team and the Shockers beating themselves. This is what I've been preaching on here since the beginning of time. The AAC faithful are too prideful to admit (and I don't blame them) that the Shocker's reputation as a National Power is justified and was earned.

P.S. I'm not trying to justify the Shocker's place at the big boy table, I let the media do that for me (you don't want me to post the National Power wall-o-text quotes again do you?)

P.S.S. Surely you're not implying that the AAC is currently representative of the "big boy's table" are you? 03-shhhh


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