I think you're being wildly optimistic about our offense.
I'm ready for December to get here...
Back to back basketball games at LSU and at the Pond in Anaheim (Ca.) against UCLA. Gonna take three days off work and do the ultimate Aggie basketball road trip
...count me in.I think you're being wildly optimistic about our offense.
I'm ready for December to get here...
Back to back basketball games at LSU and at the Pond in Anaheim (Ca.) against UCLA. Gonna take three days off work and do the ultimate Aggie basketball road trip
Ohio State should be ranked #1. They might not lose a single game this year.
KU gets the lucky schedule this year. The 3 South teams that will be good (OSU/UT/atm) all happen to have the same North schedule - which takes them to KU. KU gets to play at uo, tek and BU.
atm will be a decent team. The one thing they don't have this year will cause them to stumble. Every year recently they have been the underdog and have performed well in that role. This year, they will be the fav and much more is expected of them. I don't believe they will handle it very well.
KU will win going away, and most likely OSU/atm fighting for the #2 seed. atm still has lots of work to do. They beat BU twice by 2 and 4 points. They lost to K State. UT was their only quality win (and they were 1-2 against them). They were swept by a disappointing uo squad. They lost to a sub-par OSU team once and had to have a miracle buzzer beater the 2nd time to avoid getting swept. They should have lost at home to a horrid Mizzou team.
UT loses everyone. uo loses everyone and a coach. OSU is still very young and turnover prone. tek and Colo will both be down again. BU and Mizzou are both horrid. The only reason atm has a shot at #2 is because the rest of the B12 is down... way down.
A&M not only beat t.u., they beat colorado, auburn, tech, @ iowa state, nebraska, @ mizzou, tech again, colorado again, beat SYRACUSE, lose to LSU on last second shot, and lost to OU earlier on last second shot.
...you don't do them any justice for wins last year. still scorned from A&M's 62-23 ass kicking last year...
here's to preseason basketball rankings, out in JULY!
By the way, who did THE University of Texas beat to get to the conference final? You're little aggey that could squad that had a fluke year and will return to a lower state of mediocrity very soon. And we're talking hoops here - THE University of Texas's worst sport out of the main 3. Football - National Champions. Baseball - National Champions. , even in hoops THE University of Texas has how many straight tournament appearances? Final Four appearance? Our weakest sport still does a of a lot more than your best aggey... know your role as the little red headed step child and shut your mouth.
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They beat UT once and lost to them twice; once by 13.A&M not only beat t.u., they beat colorado, auburn, tech, @ iowa state, nebraska, @ mizzou, tech again, colorado again, beat SYRACUSE, lose to LSU on last second shot, and lost to OU earlier on last second shot.
...you don't do them any justice for wins last year. still scorned from A&M's 62-23 ass kicking last year...
They beat CU (not an NCAA team) at home by 3 when they were gifted a win by a 1st team all B12 player and career .750 free throw shooter missing the front end of a 1-and-1 with 1.6 to go down by 1.
They beat Auburn (12-16 RPI 174 not an NCAA team).
They beat tek twice (15-17 RPI 136 not an NCAA team).
They beat ISU at Hilton, no easy task, but ISU down last year (15-14 RPI 93 not an NCAA team) when a guy no one had ever heard of or never will again - Kenneth White, makes 2 miracle 3's (his only 2 shots of the game) and Carter (who was 0-5 from 3) hits 2 as well. Again, a career .770 free throw shooter missed the front end of a 1-and-1 with his team up 3 with a couple seconds left which allowed White's 1st miracle.
They beat Nebraska (19-13 RPI 96 not an NCAA team).
They beat CU again (still not an NCAA team).
They beat Cuse in the weirdest NCAA tourney in recent history, and the NCAA's best pure shooter had his worst game ever, scoring 2 points on free throws. Cuse didn't even deserve to be in the NCAA, nd would not have been but for their miracle run thru the Big East tourney, and were sorely over seeded.
They were 1-5 against top 50 RPI teams. They had 6 wins over 200+ RPI teams and another 2 over a terrible Baylor (by 2 and by 4). They had a bad loss to a 110 RPI K State and poor loses (RPI 88 UoP RPI 89 OSU). They only had 4 wins over NCAA teams (UT, Cuse, and 2 minor qualifiers - Southern and NW St).
NCAA basketball is all about who gets hot at the end of the year, just ask Geo Mason. As a 12-seed, atm was obviously one of the last teams in the NCAA. If not for them getting hot and finishing 8-1, no way they get in. That 8-1 run included the Colo gift, the 1.1 sec miracle against OSU, the win against UT (which, by the way, was another gift as Law hits a 3 pointer and another 1st team All B12 didn't know there were only 5 secs left and dribbled the clock out).
atm snuck up on a lot of people last year. This year, they won't have that luxury.
yeah, they beat a lot of good teams. and you still don't give them ENOUGH credit. Not only did they beat Syracuse's ass they SHOULD have beat LSU...but you did not mention that.
...your pathetic. i don't care how you cut it, A&M played did very well last year. now, where i will agree with you is that it will be interesting to see how the Aggs deal with higher expectations...though i already mentioned that much earlier in the thread.
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Not with Greg Oden out until January.
I'd be laughing too if I were you, your post was a joke. Red headed step child? Fluke year? Lower state of mediocrity?By the way, who did THE University of Texas beat to get to the conference final? You're little aggey that could squad that had a fluke year and will return to a lower state of mediocrity very soon. And we're talking hoops here - THE University of Texas's worst sport out of the main 3. Football - National Champions. Baseball - National Champions. , even in hoops THE University of Texas has how many straight tournament appearances? Final Four appearance? Our weakest sport still does a of a lot more than your best aggey... know your role as the little red headed step child and shut your mouth.
You obviously don't know much about Billy Gillispie, the players he's recruiting, or how he runs a program. It's a good thing there's a lot of weed in Austin, you're going to need it when you're trying to calm down from looking up at A&M in the basketball standings.
You also might want to check out your roster for this year - 5 of the top 6 players on the squad left.
The Ags will finish ahead of the sips this year in hoops, in regular season, post-season, and will go farther in the tourney.
capt. mike -
The Ags were favored in every conference game except against KU, OSU, tu, and OU. They won every single game in conference they were favored last year. Coach Gillispie won't let them have a let down.atm will be a decent team. The one thing they don't have this year will cause them to stumble. Every year recently they have been the underdog and have performed well in that role. This year, they will be the fav and much more is expected of them. I don't believe they will handle it very well.
What's weird about it? The poster child for the Big East got locked down by one of the best defensive teams in the NCAA. The Ags' perimeter defensive specialist, Dominique Kirk, basically went Bruce Bowen on the guy. That's his role on this team, and he is damn good at it.They beat Cuse in the weirdest NCAA tourney in recent history, and the NCAA's best pure shooter had his worst game ever, scoring 2 points on free throws.
I have followed gillispie, and I know his tendancy to bail on programs (ask UTEP). If you have faith in him you are crazy. I also know that UT may be very young, but the talent they're bringing in is much better than anything the ags can muster. It'll be tight because of the youth of Texas, but it'll also be fun to watch. Either way, neither team will do anything this year in terms of national contention. And I seriously doubt either will challenge KU for the Big XIII'd be laughing too if I were you, your post was a joke. Red headed step child? Fluke year? Lower state of mediocrity?
You obviously don't know much about Billy Gillispie, the players he's recruiting, or how he runs a program. It's a good thing there's a lot of weed in Austin, you're going to need it when you're trying to calm down from looking up at A&M in the basketball standings.
You also might want to check out your roster for this year - 5 of the top 6 players on the squad left.
The Ags will finish ahead of the sips this year in hoops, in regular season, post-season, and will go farther in the tourney.
capt. mike -
The Ags were favored in every conference game except against KU, OSU, tu, and OU. They won every single game in conference they were favored last year. Coach Gillispie won't let them have a let down.
Syracuse was a fluke to win the Big East Tourney. They got hot and lucky at the right time and were completely spent by the time the dance started. That win was as close to meaningless as a win can be. The orange had nothing left and didnt belong there in the first place.
Where did you hear that? I thought he would be ready for the start of the season?
Isn't OSU still on probation for illegal recruiting?
Ohio State is not on probation currently as far as I know.
Right, $200K a year in a hole like El Paso makes it easy to bail on UTEP when he can get over a million a year and be king at A&M. Good ing call there dumbass.I have followed gillispie, and I know his tendancy to bail on programs (ask UTEP). If you have faith in him you are crazy.
As for the national scene, I am confident my Ags will be a top 25 team. I am a donor and a season ticket holder, and will be going to the NCAA tournament to watch my Ags next March.
There's a reason ESPN is having Gameday in Lawrence, Ks. next Feb. 3 when A&M plays the Jayhawks, and it's because they know it will be one of the biggest games of the year in the B12.
Read what you wrote... and who's the dumbass? You actually pay good money to watch that second rate team play all season long? Why don't you just donate your money to the AIDS foundation and put it to decent use.
As for your coach... of course he left a hole like UTEP for more money from a slightly lesser hole like AM. Everyone knows that. But the truth is that if he does improve on last year there is going to be some big name BB school looking for a coach and willing to pay bigger money - and Billy boy will be gone gone gone. Face it, AM is not a hot spot and excellent coaches will use it as a stepping stone to get to the big leagues...
Like say THE University of Texas
But hey, enjoy watching your little team plug away at the season and eventually get BOUNCED from both the conference tourney and NCAA tourney.
Is that the same ESPN that just fired the hands down BEST baseball announcer Harold Reynolds? For no given reason?
Yeah, everything they do makes sense... good ing call dumbass.
Which proves 2 points. #1, they didn't set the world on fire winning games they shouldn't have. They lost a couple they shouldn't have. #2, they were 10-6, nice to be sure. They took advantage of a few of the normal powers having bad years (OSU/tek/ISU).
tek and OSU will both be better, atm goes to Colo & Neb, teams that both finished just behind them, and atm isn't getting much better themselves.
Texas Tech W
@ Oklahoma St L
Oklahoma W
Kansas St LW
Iowa State W
@ Kansas L
Baylor W
@ Oklahoma L
@ Texas L
@ Colorado L
Oklahoma St W
Missouri W
Texas W
@ Texas Tech L
@ Baylor L
@ Nebraska W
They will lose one of the @ BU/Neb game. You could say that they will win @ uo or @ tek, but they could just as easily lose at home against UT or uo or OSU or tek.
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...geez. thanks for the info, i was not sure on which games A&M was going to lose....thanks for clearing that up. also, when teams don't lose anybody of significance, bringing back their entire team, that usually means they are not getting any better. not to mention a heck of a recruiting class coming in....
but you're right, A&M won't be much better.
i nominate yours for worst post of the year.
That's the best you can come up with? The big leagues? That must be why Barnes thinks about leaving every year.
No one's going to outbid Bill Byrne for Coach Gillispie's services. Coach just moved his mom into a house near campus and they both love it there.
See you in the NCAAs, if your team makes it.
the atm men's hoops team is the one bright spot in the morass of mediocrity that is aggie athletics right now.
I hope Coach Sutton and the other B12 coaches are as naive about A&M's improvement this year as you.They took advantage of a few of the normal powers having bad years (OSU/tek/ISU).
tek and OSU will both be better, atm goes to Colo & Neb, teams that both finished just behind them, and atm isn't getting much better themselves.
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