App State was within four with a minute vs unranked Witchata St. Lil Rock got hammered by #6 Nevada and Mr. Brown.
No hate of Miller from me...He's aggressive and I've always liked it. I do think that he gets ahead of himself sometime with the 3 as far as knowing when to pull back. He definitely was rolling in the 1st...I'm looking forward to watching these guys in the upcoming tournament.
One more point about finances, we did come out ahead financially with our two guarantee games vs paying folks to come here. However, compared to the past that is a loss. We usually keep virtually all our guarantee game money as we pay about 15 grand to the non D1 schools to come here. We then try to fill in the schedule with home and home opponents. We were unable to do that this year so we are paying 2 decent SWAC teams to come here. Paying 120 plus grand to Southern and Prairie View is indicative that the administration was willing to help the program. I don't recall us paying any D1 program to come here since the Marty Fletcher days. We did pay Savannah State last year some but that was tied into the Caymans Classic so it is not a fair comparison.
This was the type of game when those who are critical of Marlin (myself included) over the years of not competing with better programs can see something building. The expectation to go on the road and beat somebody like KU is not really logical but to be able to go in and compete is what we as fans want to see, especially when we have some of our better teams in recent memory put together. Way to go Cajuns!
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