Recent content by champs99and04

Everyone seems to think Nova is a lock for the tournament, and I'm not sure why.

Not to say the 2012 team didn't underachieve, but I think that group was always going to look much better on paper than it ever amounted to in reality. There were a lot of redundant, overlapping skillsets on that team that we ignored because of where the recruiting services and mock drafts...

I think he had some deep-seated issues that started to surface after the 2014 title. For some people, reaching the pinnacle of your profession that early can be a bad thing. You spend your whole life working towards that high, only to realize that you're still going to have a lot of the same...

You're referring to the Powell play? I don't think that was a product of anything other than a kid with some screws loose going AWOL. I don't think English ordered it (though it's plausible his language leading up to the game contributed to the animosity). And I'm hesitant to defend the cheap...

Bediako is only 23. I don't have a problem with this, honestly.

Anyone that had any role in Alabama getting in over Notre Dame needs to serve a minimum five year sentence.

While this may be true based on where players' were rated coming out of high school, I don't think it means much. It can be difficult to project what a 16 or 17 year old prospect is going to look like at 20 or 21, and that uncertainty has traditionally benefitted smaller schools with smaller...

I can follow his logic if his point is that the college football playoff shouldn't be modeled after March Madness. I'd actually agree with him there. They are two very different sports with much different levels of variance on a game to game basis. Your average 14-seed might beat the 3-seed...

The top five isn't actually all that disastrous. Since the new league's inaugural season in 2013-14, it's typically had between four and six top 50 teams. Having only two or three in the top 25 wasn't all that unusual either. But usually there were at least a couple others right on the cusp...

No. The best win in college football this year is Indiana beating Ohio State. The second best win is either Indiana winning at Oregon or Texas A&M winning at Notre Dame. The only reason most people think otherwise is because of the SEC/Georgia mystique, which is still greatly contributing to...

They did? I count one additional top 25 wins and some comparable ones after that (Notre Dame actually beat some pretty good teams but didn't get credit for it because they beat them so bad). I'll grant you that beating teams like LSU, Auburn, and South Carolina is more impressive than beating...

Which four top 25 teams did Bama beat?

I'm no Irish fan, but Notre Dame is clearly a better football team than Alabama. Clearly. Especially based on how they're playing right now. Bama lost to a pedestrian Oklahoma team at home and was very fortunate to beat Auburn. "You can't punish a team for playing in the conference...

The biggest issue for UConn here isn't that the league is bad. NET is designed to be a schedule-independent metric, or at least to the extent it's possible. This is why Gonzaga is always a high seed despite playing a poor conference schedule. Same with Houston when it was in the AAC, Duke...

I think you and @HW611 are cutting Cooley too much slack here. It's not 2018 anymore. New coaches are almost always tasked with replacing an entire roster upon arrival, and most of the good ones have no trouble finding ways to compete immediately. For Georgetown to still be losing to teams...