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Yeah seriously. The guy who is allergic to winning games in March is somehow going to drive a billion dollar decision.
Ok...
UConn and UNLV to the Big 12?
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Yeah seriously. The guy who is allergic to winning games in March is somehow going to drive a billion dollar decision.
Ok...
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Wanna piss off a Nevada fan? Refer to them as "Reno," as UNLV fans do.
Every time they play in Las Vegas, UNLV makes it a point to only announce them as "Reno" or at the very least, UNR. Never Nevada.
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it takes more than that to piss us off. Go Pack. Just picked up my Tix for our CBI semifinal game against Vermont tomorrow. Hey, it's better than nothing.
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Shizzle sounds like a kid so maybe we should go easy on him.
Mick can coach. He's beat us more times than I care to look up the numbers on. UNLV has a certain moral flexibility with incoming students that might be a good fit for the angry little man. He could thrive in such a set up and the stress is a lot less, with his known health issues. Interesting - not the B12 part though.
Mick can coach. He's beat us more times than I care to look up the numbers on. UNLV has a certain moral flexibility with incoming students that might be a good fit for the angry little man. He could thrive in such a set up and the stress is a lot less, with his known health issues. Interesting - not the B12 part though.
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if you put 20 years on Cronin and give him a white towel- he will be Jerry Tarkanian's clone. Instead of the Shark all over the Thomas and Mack Center, it will be the angry midget!! 
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As Mick Cronin once said when Napier beat out Kilpatrick for league MVP, real MVPs are made in March.
Cronin's record at Cincy in conference tournaments and in the NCAA's is atrocious. We aren't talking Jim Boeheim get close and fail bad, this is not make it out of the first weekend bad.
Cincy last won a conference title 12 years and two leagues ago.
If you are happy with 19-22 regular season wins a year and early exits in March, Mick is your guy.
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Is UNLV considered the flagship for Nevada or is U Nevada (Reno) the flagship? I always thought that Reno was. Could also be a 'dual' flagship like Cal and UCLA.
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Wikipedia classifies Reno as the Flag Ship and a land grant university. UNLV is classified as neither and when you look at the discrepancy in endowment - Reno nearly 1/3 larger - it makes sense.
That's not accurate, Cincy won the league title with Louisville the last and only year Louisville was in the league.
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I just spent a few moments counting the actual number of suckers and finding the starting point which I accomplished by observing the shadow of the truck. Great gif!
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Oh I see you are one of those folks who put a lot of value in regular season conference titles and shared ones at that.
I don't remember the last time the NCAA gave out a trophy to the school with the best regular season record, but hey everyone loves a good participation ribbon.
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I don't think I said that. You flatly stated "league title." A regular season title is a "league title." Have some coffee.
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A league title is winning a conference tournament. That's why the NCAA gives auto-bids to conference tournament champions and makes them the league representative. Being the best regular season team in a conference is nice, but only in that it gives you the inside track to the tournament which is where the league title is awarded.
Also, my point is that he was allergic to winning in March. So I am not sure how pointing to 1 shared regular season first place finish in 10 years at Cincy is a strong refute of my original point.
That is true now, but UNLV has been rapdily overtaking Reno since it separated from Reno in the sixties. Reno has been around much much longer and doesn't have as much to show for its time as UNLV.
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I go away for 2 weeks and come back to UNLV to the Big 12...man I love this board. Next you'll tell me Notre Dame joined the B1G for Hockey.
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Actually I believe each conference made the choice if they wanted to send the regular season or tournament champion. The NCAA has never required that either must be a conferences representative. It just happens that except for the Ivy League all have declared their tournament champion will be their auto-bid. The Ivy will go to a tournament champion next year I think. Anyway my understanding is that it was left up to the conferences. Your point is still valid, just not because the NCAA says so. : )
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I'm pretty sure that the NCAA offers the auto bid to the conference tournament champion if that conference holds a tournament. The conference itself can call as many teams as it wants champion but only one gets recognition from the NCAA (by getting an auto-bid to their tournament).
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I'm just going by what Kenny Smith said during this years tournament coverage...if he was wrong ok.
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This is absolute nonsense. By any reasonable parlance, winning your league's regular season title is a "league title." It's far more representative of a team's quality than their performance in a single-elimination tournament. An the reason the NCAA gives auto-bids for conference tournaments is because they want people to watch conference tournaments.
Hand writing is on the wall for Cronin. Cincy headed for B12. With that comes 2o-25 million increase in revenue. The can now hire a top notch / name coach. Just like Rutgers just did. P-5 programs find a coach they like and lure them away. Non P-5 teams takes what is available.
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Exactly. UConn has two D-1 League titles in FB and we think of them as more than participation ribbons.
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What the hell are you talking about?
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Stay away from the keyboard when you drink...we used to have a guy here that made posts like this...his name was HFD.
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I only count one league title in football. Shared titles mean nothing if you don't get the BCS bid.
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