Gap said:
Vic just set the all-time NCAA record for least points in a quarter of a NCAA women's basketball game and also the all-time NCAA record for least points in a quarter of a NCAA tournament game. And he did it with the likely #1 overall pick in the WNBA draft.
Congrats to Vic as this record is likely to stand for a while!
Hand Of God said:
Fact of the matter: Vic is taking his programs further in the tourney than Blair and he's recruiting better too.
Hand Of God said:
I was thrilled when Blair won the title a decade ago. But what has he done since? One Elite 8.
Meanwhile, Vic has now done that 4 tournaments in a row. That includes two championship game appearances. Truth hurts.
Hand Of God said:
I was thrilled when Blair won the title a decade ago. But what has he done since? One Elite 8.
Meanwhile, Vic has now done that 4 tournaments in a row. That includes two championship game appearances. Truth hurts.
Cedar09 said:
They pay him 1.8??
aggiedrjdub said:
just because some of us haven't responded does not mean we haven't been on the boards for years (personally, i stopped paying for an account years ago because i don't see the point in paying for a membership to this site when there are other free options out there). it also doesn't make them less knowledgeable about the team, or less qualified to offer an opinion.
Hand Of God said:
Some of y'all still aren't seeing the correlation?
A&M wins the national title with Vic on the bench as the defensive mastermind. This was no secret.
He leaves the following year and A&M has struggled to get passed the Sweet 16 since. This is no coincidence.
Meanwhile Vic is taking his Miss St program to new heights. 3 consecutive Elite 8s. Two championship games.
Now he's at Texas and already reaches the Elite 8 on his first attempt. He's got 3 top-25 recruits coming in next year while A&M has one top-100 recruit (per ESPN).
What's clear to me is that Blair needed Vic but Vic doesn't need Blair.
Hand Of God said:
Also, do people really care about conference titles? I couldn't care less about winning the SEC if we are just going to underperform in the tournament that actually matters most.
We simply weren't what league play made us think we were. The SEC performed poorly overall in the tournament and our conference title gave us a false impression of ourselves on the national level.
Most people here believed we deserved a #1 seed in the tournament. That means they thought we were a likely FF contender. But then came the reality. We barely beat the #15 seed and only escaped the #7 seed in OT. Then we got trounced by a #3.
We were overrated and it clearly showed.
Hand Of God said:
Some of y'all still aren't seeing the correlation?
A&M wins the national title with Vic on the bench as the defensive mastermind. This was no secret.
He leaves the following year and A&M has struggled to get passed the Sweet 16 since. This is no coincidence.
Meanwhile Vic is taking his Miss St program to new heights. 3 consecutive Elite 8s. Two championship games.
Now he's at Texas and already reaches the Elite 8 on his first attempt. He's got 3 top-25 recruits coming in next year while A&M has one top-100 recruit (per ESPN).
What's clear to me is that Blair needed Vic but Vic doesn't need Blair.
Hand Of God said:
In the end, when it mattered most, A&M underperformed and Texas overperformed.
greg.w.h said:
The NET rankings were awful this year. And the fact the NCAA is using a proprietary, non-transparent ranking doesn't exactly help them keep their fingerprints off the selection committee disasters. We were a top 5 team. We deserved a 1 and would have played a 4. Would we have beat all comers? Probably. Why didn't we beat Arizona? They had length advantages under the basket which was a hole we have faced without losing all times except really Georgia though LSU gave us some fits there as well.
There isn't a reason to rehash a season with exactly four losses. It was a good run.
