Frank

[nicname]

Might be a little early to anoint Frank's Gamecocks as a tournament team. Iowa State played very poorly.

Yep, their defense had nothing to do with that at all. It's not like they were some offensive juggernaut. They need to finish around .500 in conference to get into the tournament and that won't be a problem. If it's too early to put them in the tournament you can say the same about ISU, there is very difference in the resumes, and they guard better than Iowa State does.

They'll need at least 11-7

How do you figure? That's completely arbitrary.  You can list any other school and give some mile post they have to reach. I'm guessing a power 6 school hasn't missed tournament since expansion with a 19-9 record and 10-6 in conference, with a too 40 rpi and top 30 wins. 20 wins stopped being a measure for the committee a very long time ago.

The SEC isn't that highly regarded as has been shown by the committee. They've had just one team finish the regular season ranked in the top 25 in each of the last two seasons. With Florida in the tank this season the league has lost its secondary marquee brand. There hasn't been a team with less than an 11-7/ .611 conference record make the tournament out of the SEC in the two seasons since they've went to the round robin schedule. Alabama made it in at 9-7 (.562) in 11-12. Three SEC teams — No. 1 Kentucky, No. 20 Vanderbilt and No. 25 Florida — finished the regular season ranked that year. There have been multiple instances of teams finishing 12-6 and missing the NCAA tournament out of the SEC in the last couple of years.

Edit: Perhaps the perception will be influenced by the league's strong performance in last season's NCAA tournament, but we won't find that out until later. The lack of SEC teams in the rankings this season says otherwise.

The committee doesn't track AP rankings, you know that. The SEC is currently the #3 rated RPI conference in front of the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac 12.

Rankings were mentioned as a means to gauge the overall perception of the conference. The 11-7 cutoff had nothing to do with getting to 20 wins. I'd been looking at what it might take for them prior to seeing your post in the thread.

[SkinnyBenny]

Remember when he kissed Stan and wished him a merry Christmas?

Remember when Stan asked him what his New Year's resolution was and he responded, "same thing as every year: be a better father, be a better husband, be a better teacher"? (Or something like that.)

I miss him.

[mocat]

Post game chats, starring Frank and Stan, was some dynamite TV

[Havs]

Losing to oscar hurts a lot worse than losing to Frank.

['taterblast]

you always tend to remember more of the good than the bad about certain things. there were certainly annoying things about frank... him being mad seemingly ALL the time was annoying at times... there seemed to always be someone in the doghouse, that was frustrating... the style we played was certainly sloppy at times... his recruiting was pretty meh toward the end...

but man, watching these old videos and remembering the passion everyone had for cat hoops, and realizing how much of it we have lost... i miss the crap out of him. i don't really care about the details about why he left, i'm sure there is some blame on both sides. i just miss it. being a student during the meat of his tenure here and waiting in line for every single game created some of the best memories of my life. and now we suck.

[Dr Rick Daris]

you always tend to remember more of the good than the bad about certain things. there were certainly annoying things about frank... him being mad seemingly ALL the time was annoying at times... there seemed to always be someone in the doghouse, that was frustrating... the style we played was certainly sloppy at times... his recruiting was pretty meh toward the end...

but man, watching these old videos and remembering the passion everyone had for cat hoops, and realizing how much of it we have lost... i miss the crap out of him. i don't really care about the details about why he left, i'm sure there is some blame on both sides. i just miss it. being a student during the meat of his tenure here and waiting in line for every single game created some of the best memories of my life. and now we suck.

you could have just said "being good was fun and being bad sucks".

[MakeItRain]

you always tend to remember more of the good than the bad about certain things. there were certainly annoying things about frank... him being mad seemingly ALL the time was annoying at times... there seemed to always be someone in the doghouse, that was frustrating... the style we played was certainly sloppy at times... his recruiting was pretty meh toward the end...

but man, watching these old videos and remembering the passion everyone had for cat hoops, and realizing how much of it we have lost... i miss the crap out of him. i don't really care about the details about why he left, i'm sure there is some blame on both sides. i just miss it. being a student during the meat of his tenure here and waiting in line for every single game created some of the best memories of my life. and now we suck.

The recruiting at the end was pretty good, that last class would have been very good, he really only had one terrible class, the Nino & Spradling class. Also I loved our style and never thought it was sloppy. If we didn't have JO the pinch post would have made me a little sad. Everything else you mentioned about Frank sucked too.

['taterblast]

you always tend to remember more of the good than the bad about certain things. there were certainly annoying things about frank... him being mad seemingly ALL the time was annoying at times... there seemed to always be someone in the doghouse, that was frustrating... the style we played was certainly sloppy at times... his recruiting was pretty meh toward the end...

but man, watching these old videos and remembering the passion everyone had for cat hoops, and realizing how much of it we have lost... i miss the crap out of him. i don't really care about the details about why he left, i'm sure there is some blame on both sides. i just miss it. being a student during the meat of his tenure here and waiting in line for every single game created some of the best memories of my life. and now we suck.

you could have just said "being good was fun and being bad sucks".

sure. but there was more to it than just being good. the whole 'get angry' identity thing was just a ton of fun.

[420seriouscat69]

He's about to lose to a 7-6 Florida team at home.

[MakeItRain]

He's about to lose to a 7-6 Florida team at home.

WHAT??? South Carolina isn't going undefeated in conference play? That's incredibly sad and unexpected.

[420seriouscat69]

He's about to lose to a 7-6 Florida team at home.

WHAT??? South Carolina isn't going undefeated in conference play? That's incredibly sad and unexpected.

[MakeItRain]

Your proclamation might have been a little hasty, bro. For your sanity you better not turn it back to that game.

[420seriouscat69]

Your proclamation might have been a little hasty, bro. For your sanity you better not turn it back to that game.

Looks like they're about to lose?! Maybe I should run to twitter!

[420seriouscat69]

Sorry, bud. 

[420seriouscat69]

Classic Frank.

[EMAWmeister]

This is weird

[kso_FAN]

Fulcrums!?!?

[420seriouscat69]

This is weird

I guess you missed MIR's twitter explosion on Saturday.

[Tobias]

another #h3o for frank.  sad, really . . .

[420seriouscat69]

Dude will never make the tourney without a ex kstate coaching staff.

[MakeItRain]

This is weird

I guess you missed MIR's twitter explosion on Saturday.

For the record this was the extent of my "twitter explosion"


MIR ?@michaeldeangelo
Back to CBSSN to see @frankmartin_sc's team finish off ISU. Shaping up to be a horrendous night for my buddies @sonofdaxjones & @FANMAN_KSU.

MIR retweeted
Jeff Goodman @GoodmanESPN  ·  Jan 3
Was just a matter of time before Frank Martin had South Carolina relevant. Gamecocks won 7 straight & knocked off Iowa St. on neutral court.

This caused Fanning and Dax to have simultaneous meltdowns

[sonofdaxjones]

MIR Twitter rage is the best.

I never realized asking a question was melting down.   Hyperbole . . . perhaps?

Tough one at home tonight for those Fightin Cocks.

[meow meow]

MIR you were calling kstate fans racist because you read a couple tweets of people dogging the players

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

You Guys use twitter to talk crap on each other

[420seriouscat69]

This is weird

I guess you missed MIR's twitter explosion on Saturday.

For the record this was the extent of my "twitter explosion"


MIR ?@michaeldeangelo
Back to CBSSN to see @frankmartin_sc's team finish off ISU. Shaping up to be a horrendous night for my buddies @sonofdaxjones & @FANMAN_KSU.

MIR retweeted
Jeff Goodman @GoodmanESPN  ·  Jan 3
Was just a matter of time before Frank Martin had South Carolina relevant. Gamecocks won 7 straight & knocked off Iowa St. on neutral court.

This caused Fanning and Dax to have simultaneous meltdowns

You're precious. Your meltdown started before this.