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OT: East Carolina beats #5 Houston

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Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
“Just shows the strength of the league top to bottom”
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No lie, one of the commentators brought that up. Had to go back and here’s what he said:

“How about the strength of the American, Chris? You got Houston, #1 in the conference, 15-1 record, #5 in the country, you know, East Carolina, 7-6 overall, 1-6 in conference, but you look out here, both teams, so much talent, really on opposite ends of the rankings, but the Pirates, they’ve been the dominant program here tonight doing all the little things well and this is a defining win if they can pull it off here for East Carolina.”

Listening live, you could tell he was struggling to finish that thought.
 
tcf15 said:
No lie, one of the commentators brought that up. Had to go back and here’s what he said:

“How about the strength of the American, Chris? You got Houston, #1 in the conference, 15-1 record, #5 in the country, you know, East Carolina, 7-6 overall, 1-6 in conference, but you look out here, both teams, so much talent, really on opposite ends of the rankings, but the Pirates, they’ve been the dominant program here tonight doing all the little things well and this is a defining win if they can pull it off here for East Carolina.”

Listening live, you could tell he was struggling to finish that thought.
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To be fair, the people they have announcing most games on ESPN NEWS struggle finishing a coherent thought.

But some fans still think having Bill Raftery calling our Tuesday night games on FS1 is a downgrade to the AAC...
 
We should be doing cartwheels that we missed the ESPN+ stuff. The quality of the broadcasts is flat out awful. It’s like watching local high school football as far as production quality.

The AAC likely being a one bid league after we left is just too funny. I really haven’t paid much attention outside of Memphis/Penny schadenfreude, but its nice to see it wasn’t just our bitterness influencing our view that the league was trash.
 
tcf15 said:
Per KenPom, Houston was a 16-point favorite in this game and loses by 9. Ouch.
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Guys, let’s not pretend it has never happened before. UMBC over Virginia, George Freakin’ Mason over UConn come immediatelt to mind. Oh and D2 LeMoyne beat Syracuse a few years ago. One of the Patrick Ewing Georgetown teams lost to Chaminade which was D3 at the time. Let’s not pretend this is anything but one of those things. Houston is a very good basketball team.
 
Pgh2Storrs said:
We should be doing cartwheels that we missed the ESPN+ stuff. The quality of the broadcasts is flat out awful. It’s like watching local high school football as far as production quality.

The AAC likely being a one bid league after we left is just too funny. I really haven’t paid much attention outside of Memphis/Penny schadenfreude, but its nice to see it wasn’t just our bitterness influencing our view that the league was trash.
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The thing that pains me is how little our being there or not really impacted the number of bids the league recd. cannot take away the natty for sure, but we made the tournament twice (I think) while we were there.
still glad to be gone from the AAC though.
 
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Huskygrad88 said:
The thing that pains me is how little our being there or not really impacted the number of bids the league recd. cannot take away the natty for sure, but we made the tournament twice (I think) while we were there.
still glad to be gone from the AAC though.
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Part of the issue is the AAC is a weaker league and doesn't get any respect from the committee. Even when we made the tournament in the AAC we had a low seed because they considered us a mid major. We absolutely had our down years while in the AAC, but the AAC wasn't doing us any favors either with getting bids. In the Big East we will get the benefit of the doubt more often come selection time.

So it's hard to say UConn didn't have an impact on the number of bids the AAC received, because we were playing an AAC schedule and were getting the same mid-major treatment as the rest of the league.
 
tcf15 said:
No lie, one of the commentators brought that up. Had to go back and here’s what he said:

“How about the strength of the American, Chris? You got Houston, #1 in the conference, 15-1 record, #5 in the country, you know, East Carolina, 7-6 overall, 1-6 in conference, but you look out here, both teams, so much talent, really on opposite ends of the rankings, but the Pirates, they’ve been the dominant program here tonight doing all the little things well and this is a defining win if they can pull it off here for East Carolina.”

Listening live, you could tell he was struggling to finish that thought.
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One of many huge changes in our conference switch is the production quality of the broadcast. AAC announcers are godawful on ESPN.
 
McLovin said:
To be fair, the people they have announcing most games on ESPN NEWS struggle finishing a coherent thought.

But some fans still think having Bill Raftery calling our Tuesday night games on FS1 is a downgrade to the AAC...
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Whoa whoa whoa, who thinks that?
 
Tough loss for Rutgers south but the apologists are out in full force on Twitter. Apparently it’s ok for a top 5 team to get pantsed at ECU because it was a “trap” game.
 
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Good for ECU. A few years ago ECU had the best football team in N. Carolina. That's why they play the game.
 
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bendm said:
isnt it obvious? you're up there with freeescooter and palatine as biggest aac zealots
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I'll paypal you $10 if you find post where I say anything good about the AAC as a conference in the last two years. Given your IQ and time spent here my bet is you probably need it.
 
HeGotGame said:
I'll paypal you $10 if you find post where I say anything good about the AAC as a conference in the last two years. Given your IQ and time spent here my bet is you probably need it.
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nice one. you spent yesterday afternoon needlessly defending an aac team's choice to play hogwarts over gonzaga... i don't use paypal but you can venmo me

i'd never engaged with you on here before, don't know you from adam, but your random and pointless defensive posture re an aac team might as well have been posted by freescooter
 
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Greedo said:
Part of the issue is the AAC is a weaker league and doesn't get any respect from the committee. Even when we made the tournament in the AAC we had a low seed because they considered us a mid major. We absolutely had our down years while in the AAC, but the AAC wasn't doing us any favors either with getting bids. In the Big East we will get the benefit of the doubt more often come selection time.

So it's hard to say UConn didn't have an impact on the number of bids the AAC received, because we were playing an AAC schedule and were getting the same mid-major treatment as the rest of the league.
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I'm not sure there is one thing in this post that is accurate. I guess UConn was in the AAC and is now in the BE, so there is that.
 
bendm said:
nice one. you spent yesterday afternoon needlessly defending an aac team's choice to play hogwarts over gonzaga... i don't use paypal but you can venmo me

i'd never engaged with you on here before, don't know you from adam, but your random and pointless aac team defensive posture read like a freescooter post
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Great job demonstrating that IQ in this failure of a response. Thanks for looking. Too bad you couldn't find one response to support your claim.

Also, you either do not know the definition of "defend" or your reading comprehension is sorely lacking.
 
if the below isnt an attempt to defend an aac team while taking shots at UConn, then what do you call it? pointless debate? random nonsense? noise? stupidity?
bendm said:
lady of the lake lol
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HeGotGame said:
I would kill to play Our Lady of Lake right now. But we would rather schedule no one and sit around and do nothing.

Also, Our Lady of Lake beat the #152 rated Kenpom team in Texas St. 152 is right where teams like Temple, Harvard, and Washington rank
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bendm said:
good for lady of the lake....Houston ducked Gonzaga so they could play Hogwarts.
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HeGotGame said:
At least Houston has the stones to play someone. UConn is in no position to mock other team's schedule.
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bendm said:
if the below isnt an attempt to defend an aac team while taking shots at UConn, then what do you call it? pointless debate? random nonsense? noise? stupidity?
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Ok, so I see reading is the problem for you. It can be hard, I understand that. But lets try it again:

"I'll paypal you $10 if you find post where I say anything good about the AAC as a conference"

I even bolded it for you.

Since, in your words, I am one of the "biggest aac zealots" this should not be hard to find.
 
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