We’re not alone

[Censored by Laurie]

16 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Must be nice living in your little world thinking your opinion is superior to everyone else and belittling those you disagree with. 

I guess it’s just the Christian in me

[GMG_Dallas]

2 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

you're right...I missed a big one with SDSU. mea culpa. 

yes, this year's Final Four was all #1 seeds. but then so was 2008...years before anyone could conceive of NIL or the transfer portal. 

the bolded part is spot on. 

We love the underdog Cinderella run type story but truthfully, if all number 1 seeds make it to the final 4, it just means the committee got the top 4 seeds right just like in 2008. In every pro league we have in the US of A, the number 1 seeds represent the best of their respective conference over the course of an entire season. They should be the ones competing for the championship. Of course it's a good thing for the sport to have upsets but singular postseasons like this don't bother me too much for the aforementioned reasons. At least that's how I see things.

[NT93]

1 hour ago, GMG_Dallas said:

We love the underdog Cinderella run type story but truthfully, if all number 1 seeds make it to the final 4, it just means the committee got the top 4 seeds right just like in 2008.

I read somewhere before the teams were even seeded that Florida, Auburn, Duke, and Houston were a step above every other team.  There was some metric/stat they showed to back up the statement.  So, yes, I think those teams were accurately seeded…though TT almost had something to say about it.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

10 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

I guess it’s just the Christian in me

Nah... it's the liberalism in you. It's truly a mental disease. 

[Censored by Laurie]

7 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Nah... it's the liberalism in you. It's truly a mental disease. 

all hat, no cattle

[NorthTexasWeLove]

1 hour ago, Censored by Laurie said:

all hat, no cattle

Funny you say that... I'm literally the opposite. Point still stands. 

[2020 Sucks]

23 hours ago, Censored by Laurie said:

I'm so sick of this narrative. how often do you really think Mid-Majors make the Sweet 16?

Middies in the Sweet 16
2024 - San Diego St., Gonzaga*
2023 - Florida Atlantic, Princeton (15 seed)
2022 - St. Peter's (15 seed)
2021 - Oral Roberts (15 seed), Loyola-Chicago
2019 - Gonzaga*
2018 - Loyola-Chicago, Gonzaga*
2017 - Gonzaga* 
2016 - Gonzaga*
2015 - Wichita State, Gonzaga*
2014 - Dayton, San Diego St.
2013 - Wichita State, LaSalle, Florida-Gulf Coast (15 seed)
2012 - Xavier (still in A-10 at the time)

take Gonzaga out of the math and you're basically at 1 per year...with maybe extra qualifiers for Xavier and SDSU...so zero isn't really a statistical anomaly...basically '16, '17, '19 were all zeroes, pre NIL/portal.

one tournament does not make a trend. 

Under the current environment, that number will likely approach near zero.  

Come on man!  You surely can't advocate that UNT/USF/FAU/UTSA/Mem/etc really ever have a shot at anything in Football or Basketball.  The deck is so stacked against the G5 schools...its impossible to overcome.

I know of multiple good UNT fans who have reduced their giving, have let season tickets go, and have become ESPN+ watchers instead of in person fans.  The NCAA has got to do something to stop the insanity of nearly every school turning over its rosters every year.  People are leaving and that IS a trend.

[antique_alum]

On 4/15/2025 at 10:43 PM, DentonStang said:

The portal is not the problem.  Baylor was laying down MASSIVE NIL in the last two football open portals.  They have money to retain at least part of their team. 

You don't have your team gutted like that without bigger cultural or programmatic problems. 

Not the portal's fault.   Actually good those players were able to escape.

The portal, for lack of a better word, is good. The portal is right, the portal works.  The portal clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.  The portal in all of its forms. The portal for momma, money, playing time, girls, has marked the upward surge of mid-majors, and the portal – you mark my words – could not only save UNT, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the NCAA.

The portal is good for a new crop of “Show me the money” agents, bad for schools that don’t have a billionaire alumni !