Fisher:''I still think we were better than Connecticut when they won the national championship,''

[Scoe]

Well he can think that if he wants to but the reality is they weren't.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Waylon, did SDSU have a better season leading into the tournament than Arizona? Yes. The same could be said for Louisville, Duke, Pitt and another handful of teams in comparison to us in 2011. That doesn't make them better teams.

Yes, Zona had a tight one with Memphis (a reasonably talented team). IIRC, SDSU had a very tight game with a Temple squad that couldn't score.

Actually, that year I wanted nothing to do with Pitt or Ohio State. I thought those were the two best teams in the country that year, and I didn't like UConn's chances against either. Pitt puked themselves, and Kentucky took out Ohio State. After those two, I thought UConn was very close with the next 12-14 teams. I would have put Arizona on the very edge of that group that year. I did not fear Duke at all. It was a typically overrated Duke team, and I was not surprised that someone else took them out.

20 years from now I will still be amazed that BYU actually suspended Davies that season. BYU was a Final Four caliber team and then they toss their second best player off the team for having sex.

 

[lavuuk153]

I've got no problem with him thinking that, but that's the awesomeness/curse of a single game elimination tournament.

 

[formerlurker]

Coach Steve Fisher has never watched the tape of the Aztecs' loss to Connecticut as a No. 2 seed in the 2011 regional semifinals at Honda Center. Fourth-seeded SDSU (31-4) is back in the regional for the first time since then.

''I still think we were better than Connecticut when they won the national championship,'' Fisher said Wednesday.

Jerk.

Steve Fisher can't remember what decade this is, let alone recall how badly UConn kicked his ass in 2011.

(He's a brilliant coach and mentor in real life though)

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Waiting to hear him say his team is better than Arizona this year.

 

[August_West]

And Fisher's FAB 5 team was better than UNC but a little thing called an unauthorized timeout ended that.Wouldn't that be the coach's responsibility? Opponents 2, Fisher 0.

Correction: Opponents 3, Fisher 0.

It looks like Stevie's team has trouble holding leads in the last 8 minutes of NCAA games.

What a Putz.

 

[UCDaveD]

Yo Steve, probably should have worried more about Arizona instead of running your mouth about UConn. Suck it, crab.

 

[mauconnfan]

Steve might have good teams in these 3 losses……..maybe, maybe not!!

But what we do now know Mr Fisher, is your poor players on these teams were out coached every time!

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Didn’t Stanford women’s coach say the same thing when UConn beat them in the semifinals back in 1994/5?

 

[PacificStorm]

I felt bad for SDSU losing a winnable game in the Sweet 16 again last night. Had he said before the game that Uconn was simply the better team in that particualr night, he could have reversed the karma in his favor but he didn't. Now he is chanting alone in his basement but it is too late for that.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Uconn was definitely the better team in 1994. Stuff happens.

 

[Kembacity]

Good point about that last three by Zona....looked good, thought for sure it was in. Yelled "no!!!" I am afraid to watch a rerun for fear it may go in next time...

I will remember the end of that game forever I think. Had watched all of the other elimination games in that season with my core group of two other insane die-hards, and we were all separated that night so I had no other psychos to share in my stress and excitement. When the horn sounded, I ran around the apartment screaming FINAL FOUR over and over, and I'm not the least bit embarrassed by that

 

[BankShot]

I was stuck in a sports bar, but sitting down at a table. i was the only UCONN fan at the bar, and remember going nuts and having 100 faces looking at my display of satisfaction

 

[Durks07]

Well Steve, Vegas thought UConn was a better team than yours, opening the line at UConn -1, as a de facto road team.

http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/...k-connecticut-arizona-florida-butler-matchups

If your suggesting that you were outcoached in the comments, then well, you would know what its like failing to achieve with superior talent right?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

We are throwing a lot of stones at Fisher when we have been in some glass houses. 1994, 1996, 2006, 2008 and 2012 come to mind. The only programs who have never lost to an inferior opponent in the NCAA Tournament are programs like Rutgers that suck so bad they have never gone. If a program has been to the dance more than a handful of times, it has probably lost to someone it shouldn't have lost to.

 

[UConNick]

We are throwing a lot of stones at Fisher when we have been in some glass houses. 1994, 1996, 2006, 2008 and 2012 come to mind. The only programs who have never lost to an inferior opponent in the NCAA Tournament are programs like Rutgers that suck so bad they have never gone. If a program has been to the dance more than a handful of times, it has probably lost to someone it shouldn't have lost to.

Or you could be like Jimmy and Cuse and do it 6 times. To double-digit seeds.

 

[pepband99]

We are throwing a lot of stones at Fisher when we have been in some glass houses. 1994, 1996, 2006, 2008 and 2012 come to mind. The only programs who have never lost to an inferior opponent in the NCAA Tournament are programs like Rutgers that suck so bad they have never gone. If a program has been to the dance more than a handful of times, it has probably lost to someone it shouldn't have lost to.

As usual, missing the point. Did we lose to inferior teams? Sure...

...was our coach dumb enough to say on a large stage that we were better, years later? No...

 

[UConn76]

I'll be looking for the same proclamation after last night's SDSU loss...

 

[Deadrody]

I still think we were better than Florida and George Mason.

And UCLA

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

We are throwing a lot of stones at Fisher when we have been in some glass houses. 1994, 1996, 2006, 2008 and 2012 come to mind. The only programs who have never lost to an inferior opponent in the NCAA Tournament are programs like Rutgers that suck
so bad they have never gone. If a program has been to the dance more than a handful of times, it has probably lost to someone it shouldn't have lost to.

Stop. This thread is for the purpose of calling out Fisher for his, "We were better than UConn" comment, no more. He opened the door. If you must, start a "UConn has sometimes underperformed" thread elsewhere, not here. Irrelevant.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Or you could be like Jimmy and Cuse and do it 6 times. To double-digit seeds.

Coach Ratface is right on his tail though, unless he gets the seeding process changed.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Stop. This thread is for the purpose of calling out Fisher for his, "We were better than UConn" comment, no more. He opened the door. If you must, start a "UConn has sometimes underperformed" thread elsewhere, not here. Irrelevant.

If it was Boeheim or Ratface, I would be all for piling on the stupidity of a statement like that. I kind of like Fisher and I don't think what he said, in that context, was all that bad.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

As usual, missing the point. Did we lose to inferior teams? Sure...

...was our coach dumb enough to say on a large stage that we were better, years later? No...

I think Calhoun has commented on the George Mason loss along similar lines, and I wouldn't be surprised if he has said something about the 1994 loss to Florida too. Guys like Calhoun and Fisher just speak what they think. they don't have agendas with every word that comes out of their mouth like Kzyzewski or Boeheim. I think we are making a big deal about nothing.