2020-21 College Basketball thread

It's very hard to evaluate how good a college coach is without considering the year-in, year-out talent level of his players. Florida St. seems to have real good players, but seldom if ever guys obviously ticketed for NBA starting jobs. Team has been regarded as a tough out for some time. It is axiomatic that in the NCAA tournament, almost every team except one or two each year will run into a foe with superior talent at some point. Sometimes, that team will play a great game and win. Much more often, they lose. When a one seed runs a four seed off the court, it ain't the four seed's coach's fault. It's nature taking its course.

 

Odds I will ever see another national title in football or men's BB are as close to zero as it gets.

But JFC, how about a fucking CONFERENCE title? 23 years in football, 42 years in men's BB.

 

I had to check Wikipedia to realize you meant the conference basketball tournament. Yours have three regular season titles this century alone, including 2018. That’s the more meaningful title to me, even if I would have claimed the opposite growing up in the Wimp Sanderson years.

 

Yeah, but two of the reg. season ones were shared (one of them a four-way split, and none of the four won the tournament!). At least the tournament is something that really puts you in the spotlight, gives you nets to cut down, etc.

I'd be fine if they did away with them, but gee, as long as they're gonna have 'em, sure would like to win one.

 

An 11 & 12 seed in the final 8, cue up the Cinderella music.
Final 4 is probably 3 #1’s and a #2.

 

If that’s the case my wife has a great chance to win a couple hundred bucks.

 

Even USC has a conference title!

 

Having watched this tournament (and very little college basketball before that), I’d say USC looks like the one team that has a really solid chance to take out Gonzaga.

 

We're becoming a mathematical absurdity.

We rank 3rd in conference regular season MBB titles . . . but haven't won a tournament in 42 years.
We're TIED FOR SECOND in conference football titles . . . but haven't won that in 23 years.

Like Al Czervik would say, "You must have been something before electricity."

 

I imagine the coach and the AD working out the bonus structure.

AD: You’ve got your 60% conference wins bonus in here. That’s very important.

Coach: Yes.

AD: I have $200,000 in here for the Final Four. Coach, let’s have some fun and make it $11 million. We both know that’s a check I’ll never have to write.

They both bust out laughing.

 

N.C. State is tied for fourth in ACC football championships, but none since 1979. It is third in ACC basketball tournament titles, but none since 1987.

 

That’s incredible to think about on football. They’ve had some damn good quarterbacks.