Rusty, quit acting all high and mighty, like you think we got what we deserved.
I understand needing to win today to get in, and admitted it all week to people at work, but jesus f'ing christ. If we don't get in after beating T-Tech by 20 and finishing the regular season 11-4 with losses to only ku(2), OSU (road) and Nebraska (road) and having 4 of our 11 wins come on the road with one of them against Texas I might lose it.
I think this is getting at what the real problem seems to be with this year's selection; it doesn't seem the committee came out and said what 3 or 4 criteria were most important or consistently had 3 or 4 they really followed. It seems to change based on who they are talking to. This would be a case in point, our win vs Tech doesn't seem to "count" b/c we beat them in the conference tournament. Yet Arkansas only got in b/c of what they did in their conference tournament. They are making no sense with that. If they come out and say "this year we looked very strongly at quality wins, how you did in your conference tournament, and unbalanced schedules in leagues" fine, so be it. But I don't see them saying that, in fact the only theme seems to be this unbalanced league stuff, but even then they fail to point out Purdue's 6 games in the Big 10 vs >150 RPI teams and Illinois having 5 of those.
I know.But this was the year we were suppose to end the "firsts"It's just another season our program won't be in the NCAA's.It's another season where our NCAA total is stuck at 22.This hurts. Bad.
Packer asks him about unbalanced schedules and mentions TT and KSU, then asks him about why they took TT over KSU.A!sshole Gary Williams says that because TT had to play in the South, which was tougher than the North, and mentioned that TT beat KSU in conference, then mentioned that TT lost to KSU but it was because they weighted that they had to play the day before. It's unfu!cking believable.
...the Tourney chair says that if ku lost, they'd still be the #1 seed (so essentially, the conference tournament doesn't matter)....Arkansas gets to the finals and gets drilled and they are in (so essentially the conference tournament does matter)....KSU drills TT , has a better record and Tech gets in (so essentially the conference tournament doesn't matter). WTF?
I remember that selection show like it was yesterday. After the bracket was filled out all of the way I just broke down and came here and let my anger out on this board.Too lazy to go look for my tirade though (plus lots of bad memories in there).
Thank you very much Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa State, and Colorado. You being such horrible teams is the reason we were left out.Great job at continuing to suck.
csourk is the best pre-college poster on this board. way better than oxlp956