TheTastyGreek

Many explanations. No justifications. That stain will never wash away, no matter what else gets accomplished.

JJ is gone. His legacy here is written. Anyone who remembers him fondly for what he did for us, how he built the program, and how he represented our school... I think you're a member of a pretty big club. Anyone who wants to bitch about him or denigrate what he accomplished... Well, he's gone now. GrandGreen said it brilliantly. The only relevance JJ has on this year is the talent level he let behind for Benford to work with. Hashing out old arguments is not going to convince anyone to reevaluate their opinion at this point.

Didn't sound very bothered. "We just gotta keep improving". "Lamar is going to be a challenge". "Tony needs to get more touches". "Credit to them (UAH), they do some nice things". Not encouraged.

Stop ruining the only joy on the bball forum with facts.

Curry was all flash. Jimmer Fredette could SHOOT.

I get what you're saying... But lower than losing to a d2 team? Are we going to start murdering each other? Luring foster kids into the showers? Replacing the national anthem with a human sacrifice to Satan?

I think harry means: everyone worries about finding a streetball athlete like Tim Duncan. But he's never won anything without the fundamental soundness and shooting accuracy of Jeff Braswell. Duncan was nothing without Braswell backing up his circus alley oops and posturing.

Hmm...

Hmm... Oh, wait. You threw Carr in the list. Carry on!

Stubbing my toe hurts. This basketball situation makes me want to dress up in a tube top and fishnets and hang around Craig James' house.

According to dahbeed, who has been one of my suicide hotline counselors... Ken McDonald did the same thing.

They have one. Cyanide.

If I'd had to bet money on this thing going down in flames... I expected this guy to be what led to the program toppling and ending up in disgrace: ...and I figured it would take months, maybe years to come to pass. Turns out it was this guy all along: ...and it already happened, on the court(!), in game 2. Nothing that comes after this can be more embarrassing, more devastating, more inexcusable than what we've already had happen. Tony Mitchell could strangle a newborn baby at midcourt on national television, and we wouldn't sink any lower than where we are now.

Maybe we'll blow out Lamar by 30, and Kansas State will lose to UAH. But we'll still have lost to a D2 school.

Now I have something besides the end of the UALR game that I can watch whenever I need to feel like repeatedly stabbing myself in the heart.

Hype doesn't make you lose to a D2 team. Mitchell, Alzee, Holmen, Franklin... Somehow, that core four was enough through the end of last season to get us one minute away from the NCAAs. And now we're losing to a D2 team? For the first time in almost 3 decades? Give us back Jones and Jordan? Throw in Hardwick and Coleman? And we're so much WORSE, we lose to a D2 team? The last time this happened to our program was FOUR DAYS after President Reagan met Gorbachev for the first time. Calvin and Hobbes had just finished it's FIRST WEEK IN NEWSPAPERS. Tetris and forensic DNA testing didn't exist yet. The original Nintendo was a month old.

You nailed it in 2 words.

And maybe a reset button on this sport.

Fudge analogies, too. We lost to a Division 2 team. That's a fact. No analogy necessary. Not even Trilli. Not even Trilli sank this low. And we're 2 games into it.

The silver lining is, at least with this coach we won't have to pay out all 5 years on the contract if we cut him loose early. We should have any number of reasons to do it "with cause" and void whatever is left on the deal if and when that should become necessary.

Whenever we do finally re-stock basketball jerseys, none of us will have to rush to the store to buy one before they sell out.

UT Arlington was a 24 win team that was a 2 point road loss away from sweeping their conference last year. We lost to a non-D1 team for the first time in 27 years. It's like comparing apples and a railroad spike hammered in the urethra.

Maybe I can go hop in the bathtub with a plugged-in toaster and magically end up with electrical superhero powers.

At least we know he'll be back tomorrow. We may need the traffic and ad impressions. I don't know how many other people will ever show their face in a Mean Green fan forum again.