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Only 9% though
The lightsaber cats get my vote.
not the easiest to ride!
trades horse in for new model
trades in for a new funny hat, and ride.
new spear, try to take these guys..
Nice.
Also, there's no late, only "closer to gameday".
Wow....just wow :)
Very NICE!
Have you seen what I posted below (albeit rather late) ;)
The is my fave one of the year...gotta be honest.
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# | Purdue 58 Hokies 55 -- Thoughts on what's going wrong, or right... It's here: http://insidethecassell.blogspot.com/2010/12/postgame-thoughts-purdue.html
Seth Greenberg’s postgame interview was pretty telling. “We have some people right now that are more about themselves than the team.” Greenberg mentioned concerns over selfishness and lack of leadership. Certainly not a problem I expected to see with this team before the season started.
one can only be such a scholar and gentleman when he is engaged in a battle of wits with an equal.
you sir, have raised the bar.
i was trying to find something cool and typed "lol rpi" into google, but the results are disappointing because this was the first picture:
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# | Purdue 58 Hokies 55 -- Thoughts on what's going wrong, or right... Yeah this horse is more dead than Snuggles, but I enjoyment intelligent debate which you Sir bring.
BUT BUT BUT MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ARE SO SIMILAR!
truth: alyssa fenyn is hot and i would go to the games just to watch her.
let's not beat a dead horse. i <3 you even if we disagree. at the end of the day, SETH DAVIS IS STILL A TWAT WAFFLE.
The RPI is a mathematical formula, and like any formula calculating over a limited dataset (think week 1 of the BCS computers), it's way off (for right now).
I am not considering either of the polls though, I'm speaking more to what I watched. It's a bad loss because we were at home, to a down Purdue team (no Robbie Hummel), had leads, had chances to pull away and instead we did everything we could to give the game away, and we did.
yes, it was a game we should have won (not just for our resume, but because we are the better team), but we can't be worrying about whether we are in contention for a bid or not right now. that is my biggest point. when you play football, you don't worry about what bowl you are going to in september, so why should you care about postseason basketball in november/early december?
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# | Purdue 58 Hokies 55 -- Thoughts on what's going wrong, or right... a) Recruiting doesn't mean a thing if we don't win the games. Up until now we haven't.
b) Agree, and I said as much above, but it's evident we're a sloppy team and things are broken, otherwise we'd be winning more with the talent we had.
c) Fair enough point, for now. There were a lot of empty seats in Cassell last night. They tried telling the students they could come for free, and they didn't bite. With the significant investment Weaver made in the program he's not going to idle and give him his full contract to turn this around. It's bad business. Maybe one year is one too short, but two year's of the same old, same old would be two too many.
d) If we can't compare football and basketball, then we can't compare women's and men's basketball.
seriously though, the rpi is where it is at, NOT the polls.
i find it amusing that it is a "bad loss" when an unranked team loses to a ranked team, which is why the polls are crap and the determination at this point of the season is little more than witch-doctory (i hope that is a word, if not i am trademarking it).
for the record, purdue had an rpi of 120 going into that game. this means, if anything, that purdue is on the outside looking in if they lose. we aren't in as bad of a situation as people think. i am not claiming to be an expert, but then again the experts get it wrong frequently in college basketball.
greenberg won't get fired because:
a) he is a great recruiter.
b) he knows the x's and o's better than you realize.
c) it would cost too much money to fire him.
d) weaver hasn't fired beth dunkenberger, who makes greenberg look like john wooden.
you can't really compare recruiting in basketball and football. they are completely different games and the methodology is different.
I don't think Kevin said we were screwed by the loss, out of contention, or the season was over. He made a fair point, when we put our resume in front of the committee this loss could, and almost definitely will, negatively distinguish us from the at-large field. Knight said as much toward the end of the game, he called it a "bad loss", and it was. Obviously if we win the ACC tournament the whole regular season is a moot point, but these losses don't inspire any confidence in that happening.
The guys need to do a complete 180 and hopefully playing UVa is the spark that lights the fire up their asses.
it is rather hasty to be making comments on how this loss is going to screw us over come march. it is still SO EARLY that we just don't know what could happen. we could beat duke and win the acc and this could be a moot point, which is why it doesn't make sense to make conclusions now. i have never been a fan of preseason and early-season polls because they are baseless predictions on subjective observations, and as thus, i don't think it is rational to say our season is over right now.
PROOF? prior to last night, we had a higher RPI than michigan state.
Should have never signed that huge extension. He has yet to earn it. 1 NCAA appearance with great talent? We as Hokies SHOULD expect more.
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