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[casetopia]

Or, you could work on growing skin thicker than rice paper... From my point of view, your posts could be defined as trollish but they don't cause my knickers to be twisted.

This is a internet sports forum... one could either choose to defeat my original argument or to just whine. Evidently, you choose to whine.

Boo

no I choose to call out a trolling message board wimp

 

[BooRadley]

no I choose to call out a trolling message board wimp

I see, so now you're a keyboard tough guy.... how about just defeating my original argument about the strength of the SEC?

Boo

 

[casetopia]

I see, so now you're a keyboard tough guy.... how about just defeating my original argument about the strength of the SEC?

Boo

The SEC has 3 schools in the top 8 RPI. 2 in the top 3. The dreaded AAC has 1 in the top 20. You sound like an idiot trying to say the SEC is weak.

 

[teacherdean]

Son, get your facts straight...Holly has asked Geno twice to play them and each time he has said no......He wants an apology first for him being such an ass.

If that is true, and this is not the first time I heard this, What an arrogant AHole!!!

 

[GameTime]

no I choose to call out a trolling message board wimp

Be careful guys, he may throw his Geno lunchbox at us, and if he does he may break his UConn thermos. His mother may take away his Internet privileges. lol:

 

[linkster]

The SEC has 3 schools in the top 8 RPI. 2 in the top 3. The dreaded AAC has 1 in the top 20. You sound like an idiot trying to say the SEC is weak.

I don't see what the AAC has to do with the strength of the SEC? No one would say the AAC is anything but a weak conference. But the fact remains that the SEC has done very poorly in the NCAA's over the last half dozen years, other than getting a bunch of teams in. RPI is how you get in the tournament. Performance is how you stay in. RPI gave the SEC two number one seeds last year. They both lost convincingly in the S16, meaning that they couldn't beat a team ranked higher than 16th. And those who want to claim TAMU's NC had better visit the B12 headquarters, where the 2011 championship is listed as their's.

Much of the prestige of the SEC is due to football, and rightly so, and fans of SEC wbb are certainly correct in being proud of the history of their women's BB success, but there has been little glory in the SEC's recent NCAA tournaments and ignoring that fact is silly.

 

[BooRadley]

The SEC has 3 schools in the top 8 RPI. 2 in the top 3. The dreaded AAC has 1 in the top 20. You sound like an idiot trying to say the SEC is weak.

And for the better part of a decade the SEC gets walloped when they play good teams. RPIs are a joke and a poor man's refuge in deflection from losing. While it's also true that the SEC still gets points for it's history in the preseason rankings, once the season starts the early season rankings are shown to be the flat out silly. You know as well as anyone that for most of the season the RPIs are little more than guesses... so using your RPI as a signal of SEC quality is a poor substitute for winning against truly good teams.

But it is the only argument you have left, so please go ahead and use your RPI to explain why UConn & it's conference mates have so dominated the SEC with respect to the NCAAs in the last 15 years.

Getting into the NCAAs is always nice and being gifted with what prove to be unsupported 1 seeds and 2 seeds is like Christmas in March for you but advancing is what really defines quality and the SEC teams get flushed early.

Boo

 

[BooRadley]

Be careful guys, he may throw his Geno lunchbox at us, and if he does he may break his UConn thermos. His mother may take away his Internet privileges. lol:

Please forgive me for my previous replies to you... I thought I was dealing with an adult.

Boo

 

[LadyVol1908]

Where were all these "The SEC sucks" when Tenn and LSU were mainstays in the Final Four! They haven't gotten teams to the Final Four because they're so damn tired from beating up each other night in and night out....just an excuse but you get what I'm saying! They're NO nights off in the SEC....I do appreciate UCONN and what they've accomplished but the reality is they're in a extremely WEAK conference. I've seen half of those teams play and they're no better than my little sister's junior high team! Teams in the SEC AT LEAST provide some type of threat to win a game! Against this weaker competition they're numbers should be outstanding!!! Bench included!!!

Like someone previously said no one here is not saying UCONN isn't good regardless of their conference....I mean that obviously clear, hence the National C's, however put UCONN in the SEC or ACC and see how they fare year in and year out.....IN MYYYYY OPINION, they'd have a few more loses over the years.

 

[BengalHuskie]

I think UCONN would do pretty well in the ACC considering most of the teams were once apart of the BE, a conference in which UCONN dominated.

 

[LadyVol1908]

I think UCONN would do pretty well in the ACC considering most of the teams were once apart of the BE, a conference in which UCONN dominated.

Who all was in the Big East before the switch to the ACC? I know ND off the top of my head.....

 

[linkster]

Where were all these "The SEC sucks" when Tenn and LSU were mainstays in the Final Four! They haven't gotten teams to the Final Four because they're so damn tired from beating up each other night in and night out....just an excuse but you get what I'm saying! They're NO nights off in the SEC....I do appreciate UCONN and what they've accomplished but the reality is they're in a extremely WEAK conference. I've seen half of those teams play and they're no better than my little sister's junior high team! Teams in the SEC AT LEAST provide some type of threat to win a game! Against this weaker competition they're numbers should be outstanding!!! Bench included!!!

Like someone previously said no one here is not saying UCONN isn't good regardless of their conference....I mean that obviously clear, hence the National C's, however put UCONN in the SEC or ACC and see how they fare year in and year out.....IN MYYYYY OPINION, they'd have a few more loses over the years.

You may be right but look at Notre Dame. They moved to the supposedly powerful ACC and over the last 2 seasons they have one loss, and that was when they were going throught the Taya Reimer crisis. Last year they won by an average MOV of over 20 points.

I'll agree that the way games are officiated in the SEC it is a physically tough conference. But once those teams get into the NCAA's where the NCAA dictates to officials instead of the SEC, that style of play loses.

 

[BooRadley]

Where were all these "The SEC sucks" when Tenn and LSU were mainstays in the Final Four! They haven't gotten teams to the Final Four because they're so damn tired from beating up each other night in and night out....just an excuse but you get what I'm saying! They're NO nights off in the SEC....I do appreciate UCONN and what they've accomplished but the reality is they're in a extremely WEAK conference. I've seen half of those teams play and they're no better than my little sister's junior high team! Teams in the SEC AT LEAST provide some type of threat to win a game! Against this weaker competition they're numbers should be outstanding!!! Bench included!!!

Like someone previously said no one here is not saying UCONN isn't good regardless of their conference....I mean that obviously clear, hence the National C's, however put UCONN in the SEC or ACC and see how they fare year in and year out.....IN MYYYYY OPINION, they'd have a few more loses over the years.

Yes, there was a time when the SEC was the premier conference, but the game has evolved and the SEC teams are still playing 1980's-1990's bball. I would love for more teams to compete with... that would be everyones wish for the sport we all enjoy, but until other teams modernize their game, the sport will be stuck with a very few teams like UConn & Notre Dame playing beautiful bball while most of the rest play what is little more than Jurrasic ball.

If UConn were in the SEC, nothing would change until the SEC teams began to evolve and start to play better ball. The 'rough & tumble' physical play of the SEC is nothing new to UConn or any other top team... they handle that sort of game with relative ease... in fact sometimes those physical teams are the easiest teams to embarrass... just ask Louisville. I've watched one half of several SEC games this year and it's assumed toughness is a more of a myth than anything real... it's more like poorly played bball than anything else. It seems to be more marketing than reality.

The old SEC game is just not good enough these days... UConn would do to the SEC what it's done to the Big East and the AAC. Heck, UConn completely annihilated this year's top SEC team... It wasn't just another win... it was another easy win. It was over in the first ten minutes just as most of UConn's game are over in the 1st half. At least the BE had Notre Dame and Louisville, to battle with.

Most UConn fans would love for more teams that were able to make a game of it but it looks like we'll just have to keep waiting for that to happen. The argument that the night in, night out wear and tear of the SEC would somehow equalize the SEC and UConn is an excuse for losing. It just doesn't hold water... the SEC is not Khe Sanh. The sooner that that line of thought is dropped by the conference and its fans the sooner the SEC will begin to reform and compete again.

Boo

PS. Thanks for the BBall based response... the other nonsense is tiresome drivel.

 

[reno tony]

funny thing too that uconn fans can't handle is the fact that if there was no pat summit there never would have been a geno. he would have been living out his days coaching high school women and teaching drivers ed.

How on this planet does that make any sense? Please don't respond, it was just a rhetorical question.

 

[reno tony]

Who all was in the Big East before the switch to the ACC? I know ND off the top of my head.....

UCONN, Notre Dame, Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse, W Virginia, DePaul, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Villanova, St Johns, Seton Hall, Miami, Georgetown, Providence, Boston College and Virginia Tech. I think that is pretty close to the whole conference. I have made the teams that have played for an N.C. at least twice in the last 7 years in bold lettering. I've also italicized the team that has won 9 National Championships in the last 19 years.

Eight of the last nine years there was a Big East team in the Championship game and twice there were two teams.

And for comparison, you will find a list of the SEC teams that have gone to the Final Four in the last 7 years.

List of SEC teams:

none

 

[ChattyVolfan]

UCONN, Notre Dame, Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse, W Virginia, DePaul, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Villanova, St Johns, Seton Hall, Miami, Georgetown, Providence, Boston College and Virginia Tech. I think that is pretty close to the whole conference. I have made the teams that have played for an N.C. at least twice in the last 7 years in bold lettering. I've also italicized the team that has won 9 National Championships in the last 19 years.

Eight of the last nine years there was a Big East team in the Championship game and twice there were two teams.

And for comparison, you will find a list of the SEC teams that have gone to the Final Four in the last 7 years.

List of SEC teams:

none

Thanks tony for the reminder...the old BE was a good conference. Too bad y'all (or Louisville and ND for that matter) aren't in it anymore.

 

[LadyVol1908]

UCONN, Notre Dame, Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse, W Virginia, DePaul, Marquette, Pittsburgh, Villanova, St Johns, Seton Hall, Miami, Georgetown, Providence, Boston College and Virginia Tech. I think that is pretty close to the whole conference. I have made the teams that have played for an N.C. at least twice in the last 7 years in bold lettering. I've also italicized the team that has won 9 National Championships in the last 19 years.

Eight of the last nine years there was a Big East team in the Championship game and twice there were two teams.

And for comparison, you will find a list of the SEC teams that have gone to the Final Four in the last 7 years.

List of SEC teams:

none

Thanks for the info...I was too lazy to look it up myself and once AGAIN....thanks for the reminder of no SEC teams....we get it already, still doesn't change my mind that the SEC and ACC is still the toughest conferences at the moment!

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Ucon is a small time athletics school. They are not given a second thought by the Power 5 conferences. That's why they reside in one of the worst conferences in America.

Enjoy those high level football and basketball games Ucon.

 

[teacherdean]

Except, of course, for all of those years when the Big East was the toughest conference in the land.

Even these days the SEC has one reasonably good team in SCar and a pile of teams that UConn would make hash of with MOV's between 30 and 60+. Does anyone really believe that UConn would have any more trouble with Florida, Auburn or Bama than it does with Cincy, SMU or Houston? What about UTenn, Miss St. or Kentucky... Is there even a rational argument to be made that these teams could give UConn any more trouble than S. Florida, Tulsa, or Temple when UConn walloped your best by 24?

Baylor matched UTenn's grand total of 'two' NC's since 2000. That right 2 of 15. What's UConn's count? Its 8 of 15... more than half of the NC's won since 2000 have been won by just one team... UConn. In terms of conferences... the conference that UConn was in had 15 teams of the 30 possible slots available to be in the championship game...

That's right... a full half of the teams that have played in the NC since the beginning of this millennia have either been conference mates of UConn or UConn itself... so where's the 'powerful' SEC? Only five of the available NC game slots went to SEC teams in all those 15 years, all UTenn btw, and they lost 3 of those... not a very fear instilling performance by the SEC to say the least.

Heck, most of the SEC teams are rough and tumble mid major cupcakes that play bump, thump, crash, and chuck. At times, it wouldn't surprise me to see a hockey game break out at a SEC women's bball game. No wonder so many UTenn fans are obsessed with the refs when the SEC game is so dependent on the official's intervention. For those who don't know... constant fouling is not a requirement in the rulebook.

In your private moments away from this forum, most of you already know that if UConn was in the SEC this year, there would no difference in their overall record, their team/individual stats and their MOVs.

The once mighty SEC is a mere shadow of it's former self because it never made the leap into the modern game. It's still a star based conference hoping to defeat today's team based ball. Good luck with that...That may get you into the NCAAs but it won't get you very far these days. Again, just look at your team's and conferences's record of the last several years to understand that.

Staley is the only SEC coach who may have come to understand that the game has evolved beyond the vintage game that defined UTenn's best years. It's even obvious to the most casual observer that the game that it has passed by UTenn and the rest of the SEC.

Boo

Boo, UCONN is the best no matter how much you write or unsupported information you give because, due to a half ass football program, UCONN will never play in the SEC so we really do not have any idea how they would do. It is not Geno's fault that his school's football program deters his team playing in a power conference. Now you can argue which teams in the AAC match some of the teams in the SEC. I have watched both conferences and the AAC does not have the quality of WBB players you have in the SEC. AAC WBB is loaded with 1 and 2 stars when Geno is loaded with 5 stars. His second team could win the AAC. When I have watched UCONN blow out AAC teams it is move of a pushover without the toughness you get from SEC WBB players. UCF played them better than any of the AAC teams. Most of the time, the second team was on the floor and still piled points on.

It is fruitless at this point to argue if UCONN would be able to win the SEC without some pain and more injury issues than they have with an AAC schedule. It is not necessary to defend UCONN, because whether I hate or love the UCONN Dogs, they will more than likely win the NC.

 

[Amb3096]

UCF played them better than any of the AAC teams. Most of the time, the second team was on the floor and still piled points on.

For the record, Stewart, KML and Jefferson played 40 minutes in the last game vs. USF. I was surprised to see that.

 

[reno tony]

Ucon is a small time athletics school. They are not given a second thought by the Power 5 conferences. That's why they reside in one of the worst conferences in America.

Enjoy those high level football and basketball games Ucon.

UCONN won three NCAA National Championships last year, how many did TENN win?

 

[teacherdean]

For the record, Stewart, KML and Jefferson played 40 minutes in the last game vs. USF. I was surprised to see that.

I was also but only because USF out scored UCONN by 6 points in the second half. I give UCF credit they did not lay down and let UCONN roll over them.

 

[Ladyvolfan4ever]

UCONN won three NCAA National Championships last year, how many did TENN win?

WOW 3 in one year?

 

[LasVegasBill23]

Yes UConn has basketball on its side.... and a very good program both men's and women's
the SEC has nothing to apologize for..... but we need to start breaking through to the Final 4 ... it has been a while...... emotions get so strong on these forums.... and i feel like Rodney "can't we all get along" King.... but i guess that is the spirit of fandom...... i look forward to Monday night and the selection show..... ain't this the best time of the year?

 

[BooRadley]

Boo, UCONN is the best no matter how much you write or unsupported information you give because, due to a half ass football program, UCONN will never play in the SEC so we really do not have any idea how they would do. It is not Geno's fault that his school's football program deters his team playing in a power conference. Now you can argue which teams in the AAC match some of the teams in the SEC. I have watched both conferences and the AAC does not have the quality of WBB players you have in the SEC. AAC WBB is loaded with 1 and 2 stars when Geno is loaded with 5 stars. His second team could win the AAC. When I have watched UCONN blow out AAC teams it is move of a pushover without the toughness you get from SEC WBB players. UCF played them better than any of the AAC teams. Most of the time, the second team was on the floor and still piled points on.

It is fruitless at this point to argue if UCONN would be able to win the SEC without some pain and more injury issues than they have with an AAC schedule. It is not necessary to defend UCONN, because whether I hate or love the UCONN Dogs, they will more than likely win the NC.

Let’s assume for the sake of argument just for this moment that I agree with you that the SEC game is rough and tough enough to ‘beat up’ the UConn team to the point that they lose at least some of those games and/or that they don’t get as far into the tourney as they otherwise would have.

What this says about the SEC game is not something to be proud of if basketball is a game you love. What it says about all SEC fans, including those few Neanderthal fans looking for blood and guts on the court, is that they value brutality over skill. Bruises over basketball.

What is says is that the fans of the SEC WCBB game value an elbow to the ribs more than they value a perfectly executed pick and roll. What is says is that a knee to the thigh is valued more than a beautifully executed backdoor cut. What it says is that a forearm shove to the neck is of more value than ball movement.

What it says is that the SEC fans values dirty play over skilled play. What it says is that SEC fans are not fans of basketball but instead fans of rollerball.

This ridiculous argument about the superiority of the SEC rough and tumble game does clarify one thing… it explains why so many SEC fans are so often complaining about the refs… as the SEC rollerball game is so very dependent upon ref intervention.

Now understand, I don’t buy that argument and so I don’t agree that SEC fans, outside of those few Neanderthals that all teams and conferences have, value brutality over skill so I dismiss the basis for that argument. The legal, normal and acceptable physicality of play does not lead to season fatigue nor does it lead to an uptick in injuries. I played D1 ball when I was young and there were only two things that led to fatigue as the season wore on.. The first was losing and the second were those dreaded extended road trips.