I hate Alabama as much as any other UT fan, but.....

#26
#26
VolsFan4Ever-11 said:
How does UGA get in and Bama doesn't. That one kinda blows my mind.
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Georgia: rpi 48, sos 40. Only losses outside of rpi top 50 were to Alabama.

Bama: rpi 80, sos 114. Bad losses to Providence, Seton Hall, Iowa, Arkansas, who all have rpis over 100.
 
#27
#27
I agree with Alabama not getting in. I really don't have any problem with Georgia getting in (as a 10 seed, maybe) but still.
 
#28
#28
VolsFan-TX said:
With an RPI of 80 and a strength of schedule was 114, it is hard to justify selecting them for the tourney. UGA may not match up well with AL, but UGA had an RPI of 48 and a SOS of 40.
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Beat me to it while I was waiting or rpi page to load. I think they must be busy.
 
#29
#29
ALock4UT said:
They beat Georgia...less than 3 day ago
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They also beat us at home. We were without Hopson. They got screwed in my opinion. Va Tech has got it 4 yrs in a row now. I would hate to be a Hokie fan.
 
#30
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u795308 said:
They also beat us at home. We were without Hopson. They got screwed in my opinion. Va Tech has got it 4 yrs in a row now. I would hate to be a Hokie fan.
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How? Tech only beat one really solid team this year, and followed that up with some crappy losses. They got swept by UVa.

You can't win one big game and expect to automatically be in. All they had to do was close out their season, and they couldn't even do that.
 
#31
#31
this


With an RPI of 80 and a strength of schedule was 114, it is hard to justify selecting them for the tourney. UGA may not match up well with AL, but UGA had an RPI of 48 and a SOS of 40.
 
#32
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rockytop9808 said:
How? Tech only beat one really solid team this year, and followed that up with some crappy losses. They got swept by UVa.

You can't win one big game and expect to automatically be in. All they had to do was close out their season, and they couldn't even do that.
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Just saying, 4 yrs straight would be tough.
 
#33
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u795308 said:
Just saying, 4 yrs straight would be tough.
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Yes, it would, and last year they may have had more of a case than this year. But I'm sitting here right in the heart of Hokieland and all I hear is how they should be in because they beat Duke and FSU and all of this nonsense. Any good wins they had were immediately cancelled out by losing to UVa twice and getting whipped at home by a weak BC team.

It's not like them getting left out is the personal vendetta all the Hokie fans are making it out to be. There's a real reason.
 
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rockytop9808 said:
Yes, it would, and last year they may have had more of a case than this year. But I'm sitting here right in the heart of Hokieland and all I hear is how they should be in because they beat Duke and FSU and all of this nonsense. Any good wins they had were immediately cancelled out by losing to UVa twice and getting whipped at home by a weak BC team.

It's not like them getting left out is the personal vendetta all the Hokie fans are making it out to be. There's a real reason.
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Wait do Tech fans really think this?

I mean obviously James Madison should play in a BCS bowl; they beat Virginia Tech!

The level of stupid here is astounding.

Now the coach is throwing around veiled accusations that tech was left out because of an "agenda" or personal vendettas on behalf of the committee. Grace in defeat doesn't seem to be a virtue in Blacksburg. A good coach would say "we should be better so that we never have to be in this kind of doubt" or something along those lines.
 
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Snakes on a Wii said:
Wait do Tech fans really think this?

I mean obviously James Madison should play in a BCS bowl; they beat Virginia Tech!

The level of stupid here is astounding.

Now the coach is throwing around veiled accusations that tech was left out because of an "agenda" or personal vendettas on behalf of the committee. Grace in defeat doesn't seem to be a virtue in Blacksburg. A good coach would say "we should be better so that we never have to be in this kind of doubt" or something along those lines.
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To answer your question, yes, a lot of Tech fans are using that line of reasoning. Still more seem to be angry just because.
 
#37
#37
Bama shouldn't have gotten in. Had they not crapped themselves against KY, maybe. But how in the hell does UGA deserve a 10 seed?
 
#39
#39
Jay Bilas was spot-on with what he said. No sympathy for anybody. This is a competition.
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#41
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Bubble teams never have room to say anything. There are 68 teams. If you didn't make it in you weren't good enough. The last at-large bids aren't good enough but the system includes them. Do your best in the NIT to prove the committee wrong.
 
#42
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nbakerld said:
Bubble teams never have room to say anything. There are 68 teams. If you didn't make it in you weren't good enough. The last at-large bids aren't good enough but the system includes them. Do your best in the NIT to prove the committee wrong.
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Exactly. Do enough to not be on the bubble. It's that easy.
 
#43
#43
This is what they deserve scheduling that pansie schedule non conference rpi was over 250 wow
 
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#44
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:hi:
rockytop9808 said:
Yes, it would, and last year they may have had more of a case than this year. But I'm sitting here right in the heart of Hokieland and all I hear is how they should be in because they beat Duke and FSU and all of this nonsense. Any good wins they had were immediately cancelled out by losing to UVa twice and getting whipped at home by a weak BC team.

It's not like them getting left out is the personal vendetta all the Hokie fans are making it out to be. There's a real reason.
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I agree with that, but we lost to College of Charleston, Oakland, Miss State, USC, and Bama at home. Granted we beat some great teams though. I thing one of the most impressive things we did was beat Belmont twice. They are for real. But the argument is, we didn't finish off strong at all either.
 
#46
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u795308 said:
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I agree with that, but we lost to College of Charleston, Oakland, Miss State, USC, and Bama at home. Granted we beat some great teams though. I thing one of the most impressive things we did was beat Belmont twice. They are for real. But the argument is, we didn't finish off strong at all either.
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We've got 8 wins over top-50 RPI teams (Belmont's right on the edge of that, I believe), with a very high SOS. Tech's only got 2 top-50 RPI wins. Their schedule is also pretty significantly weaker.

Oakland and USC are tournament teams. They're at least a bit more legit than some of the teams Tech's lost to.
 
#48
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rockytop9808 said:
We've got 8 wins over top-50 RPI teams (Belmont's right on the edge of that, I believe), with a very high SOS. Tech's only got 2 top-50 RPI wins. Their schedule is also pretty significantly weaker.

Oakland and USC are tournament teams. They're at least a bit more legit than some of the teams Tech's lost to.
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Good points.
 
#49
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bamawriter said:
Bama shouldn't have gotten in. Had they not crapped themselves against KY, maybe. But how in the hell does UGA deserve a 10 seed?
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According to an interview I heard pre-seeding with Anthony Grant, Bama is the first 12-4 team from the SEC to not make the tournament. Kinda says something about the national impression of the SEC.

nbakerld said:
Bubble teams never have room to say anything. There are 68 teams. If you didn't make it in you weren't good enough. The last at-large bids aren't good enough but the system includes them.
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I'm still inclined to agree with this, though. If your argument is that you are the 68th most deserving team of a bid rather than the 69th, you don't have much of an argument.
 
#50
#50
Well, at least no one used the idiotic "hurr 12-4 in the SEC durr" argument for Alabama. Schedule harder next year and you won't have a problem.
 
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