ExBruces 2015-16

[pissclams]

i'll b honest, all these years i thought u had to do more to get banned. it's hilarious how easily they're threatened by a customer making light of the staff's various biases and inability to actually write

he's a senior writer, no need for him to take lip from customers of your ilk

i've never heard of the guy before these last few posts so after i read your comment above,  i went to his twitter.  the guy does love him some nba.

[pvegs]

i'll b honest, all these years i thought u had to do more to get banned. it's hilarious how easily they're threatened by a customer making light of the staff's various biases and inability to actually write

he's a senior writer, no need for him to take lip from customers of your ilk

i've never heard of the guy before these last few posts so after i read your comment above,  i went to his twitter.  the guy does love him some nba.

you're right, clams. i always tell my students to respect their elders and now look at me. simple case of not practicing what you preach. i hope this one year ban teaches me the lesson i need. it's tough but fair, like coach weber.

[kso_FAN]

IN my search for Brucey quotes, I found this:

Gasaway said he was asked earlier this season by Kansas State coach oscar Weber why his team ranked so low in the computer ratings.

“I thought he was asking why are we so low in KenPom, and come to find out he was really asking why are we so low in the RPI, which is a much different answer,” Gasaway said.

Leave it to oscar to ask John Gasaway why he's ranked low in RPI

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1556819-the-ken-pomeroy-effect-how-advanced-metrics-have-revolutionized-ncaa-basketball

I don't even....

[Dr Rick Daris]

IN my search for Brucey quotes, I found this:

Gasaway said he was asked earlier this season by Kansas State coach oscar Weber why his team ranked so low in the computer ratings.

“I thought he was asking why are we so low in KenPom, and come to find out he was really asking why are we so low in the RPI, which is a much different answer,” Gasaway said.

Leave it to oscar to ask John Gasaway why he's ranked low in RPI

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1556819-the-ken-pomeroy-effect-how-advanced-metrics-have-revolutionized-ncaa-basketball

I don't even....

I mean, I already knew that our AD knew nothing about college basketball, but I thought/hoped that our head mens basketball coach would at least have some rudimentary knowledge. oh well. 

[dmartin]

Clearly if you want spin this negatively you can, but the probable facts are that this team is 5 points from being in the NCAA tournament. I think we can score five more points next year with the core we have coming back.

Interesting fact: If you add 2 points to every loss, and take away 2 points from every win, we win those three extra Conference games (by avoiding OT twice and beating Texas) but we also lose games to Georgia and South Carolina State (forcing games into OT, which we lose)

[MakeItRain]

IN my search for Brucey quotes, I found this:

Gasaway said he was asked earlier this season by Kansas State coach oscar Weber why his team ranked so low in the computer ratings.

“I thought he was asking why are we so low in KenPom, and come to find out he was really asking why are we so low in the RPI, which is a much different answer,” Gasaway said.

Leave it to oscar to ask John Gasaway why he's ranked low in RPI

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1556819-the-ken-pomeroy-effect-how-advanced-metrics-have-revolutionized-ncaa-basketball

"To the advanced stats community, associating a site like KenPom.com with the RPI (Ranking Percentage Index)  is like comparing a chef’s work to a cook’s at McDonald's."

To some connoisseurs nuggets are a delicacy.

OH GOD  so is 2015-16 kenpom Wichita State the chef's burned steak still sent out to the customer?

[MakeItRain]

Weber was let go after compiling 210-101 record over nine seasons, which included six trips to the NCAA tournament and a national runner-up finish in 2005. The Illini went 17-15 and 6-12 in the Big Ten this season, prompting the administration let Weber go with three years left on his contract.

"I'll be honest: We had a young team, six freshmen, one returning starter," Weber said. "The disappointment of a lot of close losses took a toll. It happens."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/31/oscar-weber-kansas-state-illinois_n_1394173.html

It sure does, oscar.

Angel's summary of a oscar motivational tactic is, as you would expect, beautiful.

“He gave an example,” guard Angel Rodriguez said, “that we get a lot of Gatorade and liquids in our locker room and guys take two or three and then another guy won’t have any so somebody else has to give it to him because he got more than one. That’s why he says we have to share the juices and that’s the example he gave for the ball, as well. When we share the ball and we play as a team on both ends, we can be really special.”

this rough ridin' guy...

[CNS]

oscar would be a great little league coach

[bones129]

oscar would be a great little league coach

No he wouldn't. He'd blame all the losses on their youth.

[Trim]

https://ksu-platform-secure-prod.silverchalice.co/v3/files/56e20e1ae4b0d7103fab680f

[sys]

I believe we deserve to be in
the NIT.  There's probably a lot of other teams, but we
played a very, very difficult schedule.  We've competed
with everybody outside of the league.  We were very
good

[sys]

as a team, we do want to play
in the NIT.

[sys]

our record doesn't show as good as we are, but I'm sure that the way we kept up with teams does.

[sys]

They won today, and we had beat them both times, both at their place and our place on the play hard, that's deflections, loose balls, diving on the floor and taking charges.  They are very, very athletic.  There's no doubt it's a factor.

[sys]

you have to wait and see how these other leagues unfold.  I think there's been at least four or five league champions that didn't win their tournament that get in, so each one of those hurts us. But again, we've -- outside the league we were 11-2.

[sys]

I don't know what happened with Texas Tech's R.P.I. after last night, but we thought if they won and stayed in the top 25 R.P.I., we would have 17 of our games were going to be against top 25 R.P.I., so wherever Texas ends up they are 30-something.  We have 17 games in that.  And there's no other team in the country that has had to do that. And we competed with them, and had overtime losses, close losses.

[Trim]

I rough ridin' love how tournaments put out presser transcripts instead of having to rely on what the media types edit and include in their stories.

[sys]

I rough ridin' love how tournaments put out presser transcripts instead of having to rely on what the media types edit and include in their stories.

makes you realize how bad reporters are at their jobs.

[Trim]

I rough ridin' love how tournaments put out presser transcripts instead of having to rely on what the media types edit and include in their stories.

makes you realize how bad reporters are at their jobs.

I didn't need the help myself but I still enjoy the documentation of it.

[BostonPancake]

I don't know what happened with Texas Tech's R.P.I. after last night, but we thought if they won and stayed in the top 25 R.P.I., we would have 17 of our games were going to be against top 25 R.P.I., so wherever Texas ends up they are 30-something.  We have 17 games in that.  And there's no other team in the country that has had to do that. And we competed with them, and had overtime losses, close losses.

Damn you Texas and Texas tech!!!  You messed up our banner!  You can't hang a banner for playing 16 teams in the top 25 RPI.  Only 17 and higher.

[Trim]

I don't know what happened with Texas Tech's R.P.I. after last night, but we thought if they won and stayed in the top 25 R.P.I., we would have 17 of our games were going to be against top 25 R.P.I., so wherever Texas ends up they are 30-something.  We have 17 games in that.  And there's no other team in the country that has had to do that. And we competed with them, and had overtime losses, close losses.

Damn you Texas and Texas tech!!!  You messed up our banner!  You can't hang a banner for playing 16 teams in the top 25 RPI.  Only 17 and higher.

 http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article65285122.html

[Ptolemy]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article65285122.html

Look at the video. oscar is just a guy that is tickled pink to have a job that pays above his abilities. Anything his teams accomplish is just fine with him.

[bones129]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article65285122.html

Look at the video. oscar is just a guy that is tickled pink to have a job that pays above his abilities. Anything his teams accomplish is just fine with him.

Show oscar the door. Now.

[_33]

Looks like oscar is taking a page out of LHC Bill Snyder's playbook.  I want this framed and in my man cave.

[8manpick]

Oh my 33