UConn has spoiled you beyond belief as a basketball fan. It's incredibly hard to win a national championship. UConn had three goals this past season, St. John's accomplished two of those goals. UConn didn't accomplish any of their three goals. It wasn't a total failure for UConn, they still had a solid season but St. John's had a much better season.
Is anyone really saying St Johns didn't have a better season than us? That would be pretty stupid. Clearly they did. I think people just like to point out that after all the chest thumping by their fans and Pitino(after their first good season in like 25 years), they ended up losing in the same round as us and to a much lesser opponent by a lot more points. Yeah their team Repole bought for next year looks good on paper but their fans are already out over their skis talking about domination before a game is even played. They may be awesome again. Probably will be, but just because they were last year, it doesn't mean it's an automatic for next year. We thought our team was going to be awesome this past year and that did not materialize.
Never said they didn’t have a good season as Marquette did 2 years ago so what? The reason we are a blue blood and St. John’s is not? Clue. It’s not BE championships we won. It’s the number 6 which is ultimately how programs are judged. If we win the BE this season and then flame out in the round of 32 how many people here will smile and say “but we had a great season”? Uh no. It’s a shame that it is like that but that is just reality.
Sure. They had a better season than we did. Not by a ton. And, most importantly, after 2 years where we won 2 national championships and put 7 guys in the NBA including the NBA's DPOY and ROY.
He's not paying all that money for another 2nd round flameout. The pressure is on Rick to do better this season.
Supposedly this is the last year of this NIL system so this coming season may be the last chance he has to make such an impact.
He's worth 1.6 billion. He sold Vitamin Water to Coca Cola for 4.1b and BodyArmor energy drink to Coca Cola for 5.6b. He refers to himself as "Mike from Queens" and he's in the St John's game for fun as a fan like Steve Cohen with the Mets. He buys million dollar race horses like you and I buy coffees from Dunkin Donuts.
The topic was this past year not the previous two years(I'm aware of our resume) and yes they did have a better year than us. Wish they didn't. If saying "not by a ton" keeps you warm at night so be it. I basically said the same thing about their 2nd round flameout. So....have a nice day?
Is being seated as a two and getting taken out by a 10 seed better than losing to the eventual national champion by a bucket?
I understand the topic and you can't just cut out whatever little section you want. If that's what you want to do? Then fine. Big deal. No one cares about the regular season title. If anything, it accentuates you wetting your pants in the NCAA's.
No. I was responding to Superjohns post about the whole entire season.
Winning the Big East regular season and winning the Big East tournament is a lot better than what UConn accomplished. They finished 4 games ahead of us in the Big East and curb stomped everyone in the Big East tournament.
SJ defends and pumps up Pitino and the Johnnies every chance he gets. Maybe they are related.
So all our Big East regular season and Big East tourney titles are worthless? Got it. You agreed St Johns had a better entire year and you agreed with me they crapped the bed in the tourney which I clearly stated both of those in my original post. Double check. Maybe you should go back and read again. Have a nice day!
Who said St. John's is a blueblood?
And you call them vigilantes.
Totally agree. I hate St Johns and Pitino but I'm not delusional. I know what a better season looks like even if it makes me sick. Not admitting it makes you look insecure and foolish.
I don't get why more people on the board aren't embracing what we have now with UConn and St. John's. People have complained about the Big East here for years and how we need the other programs that matter in the Big East to be good (Nova, Georgetown, St. John's.) Now St. John's is really good, nationally people are talking about it being a rivalry and those games will have more juice than any other matchups in college basketball next season and there's a lot of posters turning their nose up at it.
No, but some of us are acting like fans of a six time national championship team. It's hard to get too excited about a team that can't get out of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.
