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- Thread starter BryceC
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Could we possibly hold off on this until AFTER we play another BiG team in 3 days?
Some conferences have good teams, and it's usually the same ones, and some have average and bad ones, and it's usually the same ones.
And some teams from all conferences play in a way that spreads out their opponents, and some play slower paced and grind out games.
And that's all the further I got before I realized I think I'd heard this somewhere before.
Except for 2015 what year has ISU crapped the bed? They lost in the 2nd round in 2017 but played to their seed vs. a bad matchup in Purdue.
Weird take.
I never root for Baylor and have a hard time rooting for Tejas. I play it both ways with KU basketball. If they lose I kick them while they are done. If they win, I pound my Big XII chest. I have no problem using Boo U to any advantage I can find.
Otherwise I like to see Big XII teams do well.
This is certainly true for my Hok fan co-workers. In fact, in a general college basketball convo I had with 2 colleagues yesterday, they both turned ISU Tourney Championship narrative into how DIFFICULT the B1G conference is and how teams just beat each other up after 3-4 days of such incredibly physical play. I kept my mouth shut, but ALMOST said, "I know one team that didn't have to worry about that happening." Wish I had said it - but still took delight in the obvious jealousy of their tone.
I only care about ISU in the tournament and don't really watch other games, however I do like to see the Big 12 wins. Not because of a silly conference strength argument or false comparison, "They played the runner-up Michigan close, so is close," but rather to see my conference doing well. Having a stronger conference should help with recruiting, tv contracts, seeding, not getting picked apart by other conferences, etc.
How can you not root for Scott Drew? Baylor football I hope never wins a game but Drew loves us
Sorry, the only teams I care enough about to actively cheer for are Iowa State, University of Hawaii, and typically whoever is playing Iowa. Doesn’t mean I actively want Big 12 teams to fail, I just don’t care enough about them to actively cheer for them or value my team based on the conference team’s successes or failures.
Not a statistician, but my general view of conference strengths is that the sample sizes in a college season are too low even for a kenpom or a barttovik to really say anything that means a whole lot. The B10 has earned those rankings, but I just don't think they mean a whole lot.
It's the go-to when things don't look good or go well especially in the fall.
Had a Bucky fan co-worker who sees the B1G as all world all over tell me after Sparty and Herky got pounded in their bowl games one season that it was just bad performances when their opponents both just basically made sure they got the win.
The 'beat each other up' narrative has been around for eons. So weird.
Purdue was a good matchup once we realized we could just isolate Deonte NBA style and they had no answer. Our mismatch > their mismatch but we didn't really press our advantage until it was too late.
This NBA season showing Deonte may end up the better pro as well.
Of course he likes us, he owns us.
I wouldn't mind seeing him do well. He would love to see him go to Nebraska and wing the B1G. I do like how is players dunk on hoks as well.
Hard to get past the stench of Baylor though.
Think about it like this:
George’s was a trash talker...but the only fan base I ever saw him troll was toe. He was always respectful and good with hugs, and especially self. That tells me a lot about the conference respect. Plus the utter disrespect from the fightin frans.