Basketball points

[Million$Mullet]

Thanks cajunsmike for the original post.

The rest of this thread is stupid. The team had a great regular season. And last night won the conference tournament, which is the ONLY way for a Sun Belt Conference team to make the NCAA tournament in the current landscape of college basketball.

The money spent in PR would be nowhere near what it would cost to bring in a team that, if (and a BIG if) the Cajuns had beaten, wouldn’t have made any difference in making the NCAA tournament without winning last night.

Is it so difficult to enjoy the moment and celebrate this team accomplishing what they’ve accomplished?? My God.

Ha!! Do you know where you are??

[sportsfanatic21]

Ha!! Do you know where you are??

Lol. I forgot for a bit

[Cajunsmike]

I’m think there are 32 conferences. At most, eight will get more than one bid. Follow the money is a correct way to analyze this. As far as home schedule goes, consider more major schools are doing what LSU did this year which is play ZERO non conference road games. One reason is NET considers margin of victory. Some schools use that reasoning to schedule even weaker teams for home games. That does not mean we should not increase our efforts with other quality mid majors to get home and home deals. Going back to my original points, focus of thread should be more on the contributions of the assistants vs the Puerto Rico trip

[Turbine]

... focus of thread should be more on the contributions of the assistants vs the Puerto Rico trip

I'm coming around, I forgot how no one knew each other before this year.

[ZoomZoom]

Wow.

So, how do you get your Net ranking up?

Be in a power conference and don’t venture away from home except for the power conference challenges arranged for tv or tournaments like Maui. There’s not a thing the “mid majors can do unless you’re a private school and can afford to go all in for MBB. I think it was the GAST board pointed out the Zags hoop budget was bigger than GAST’s football budget. And that said, I expect the Zags to get squeezed out eventually.

That’s the game plan. Basketball will be the next chip to fall after P5 football’s move is completed.

[Duckster]

To clarify, overseas trips restricted to once every four years? Puerto Rico is part of the USA. What about a tourney in Hawaii or Alaska, do they count? What about Canada? Just seems like a weird restriction for no reason.

[RaginP]

I really want to tip my hat to the students. We had more student support this year probably since the Elfrid days. The Marshall game is the one that stood out to me the most. Haven’t seen the student section like that in nearly a decade. The players 100% fed off of them and the rest of the crowd every game. Just look at the videos from the post game mosh pits between the players and students. They might have just started a new tradition!

[ManAboutTown]

While y’all are content letting this dude talk down to y’all, I’ll just say, we were 5 points away from that “overseas” trip meaning absolutely nothing.

People want things to be true. Especially when they get vacations out of it.

The team was good because they were good. Nothing else. Stop the foolishness.

[RedTails]

While y’all are content letting this dude talk down to y’all, I’ll just say, we were 5 points away from that “overseas” trip meaning absolutely nothing.

People want things to be true. Especially when they get vacations out of it.

The team was good because they were good. Nothing else. Stop the foolishness.

Devil’s advocate, what if that vacation was only good for an extra five points during the season. Worth it?

There’s a reason a lot of companies have a team building budget.

What if the promise of a trip tipped the scales to get Fulks to come to Lafayette?

[ManAboutTown]

Devil’s advocate, what if that vacation was only good for an extra five points during the season. Worth it?

There’s a reason a lot of companies have a team building budget.

What if the promise of a trip tipped the scales to get Fulks to come to Lafayette?

I was referring to a vacation for the guy here advocating for vacations.

[Rainman66]

Not my point.

Bob times it perfectly, with his best teams so I know he believes in the positive effects.

He needs to figure out a way to teach without the benefit of an early start.

This is the one point you have made that I agree with.

For whatever reason, when our bball teams do these pre-season trips, very good to excellent seasons happen.

If Marlin believes they create a great team chemistry, then in the years they cannot go, it is incumbent on him to find creative ways to get to the same answer.

[LifeTimeCajun]

This is the one point you have made that I agree with.

For whatever reason, when our bball teams do these pre-season trips, very good to excellent seasons happen.

If Marlin believes they create a great team chemistry, then in the years they cannot go, it is incumbent on him to find creative ways to get to the same answer.

Unfortunately they can only do it every 4 years