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USF Will Beat UConn This Year!

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j66kicker said:
I was assuming Sonny meant a catastrophic "Armageddon" type asteroid collision but, with your info, I guess the Huskies better be on heightened alert for all the USF games
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No offense but I think you are on the same asteroid that might hit us in a few hundred years.
 
hoophuskee said:
No offense but I think you are on the same asteroid that might hit us in a few hundred years.
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Woof 101 said:
My take ... Debbie is simply doing her job. Whether it via BS or any other method she has to create interest in the woman's game. Saying UCONN is going to run the table does no good for ESPN or the game itself. No disrespect for Java and his post or the oft overzealous here. I realize we get bored if there is more than two days between games. ;)

Debbie is kind of hedging a bet here that will cost her nothing if she is wrong but give her a ton of cred if she is right. Sooner or later we will lose a conference game it is inevitable. Should it be to a team ranked in the top 20 it looks good for the conference, right now what else positive could she say about our conference? USF gave Baylor a good scare in Texas only to lose by 3. Now should we face them and Mo has a twisted bumpkin, Tuck has a runny nose and Stewie gets into foul trouble Debbie looks like a genius. I will hedge my bet and say if it happens her comment after would be in line with my own thoughts, it was simply something to learn from. This because going undefeated each year is not a goal at UCONN, winning a NC is...:D
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Isn't that every teams goal?
 
WestCoastFan said:
Isn't that every teams goal?
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I was not going to reply here because it is simply silly, but seeing you are calling me out I will do so. I will keep it polite as you are a new member here and obviously new to woman's basketball. I like seeing this sport gain fans and besides it's Christmas :D.
Now to answer your question...... NO ! Sorry to holler. Please do some homework and realize a few facts. There are 349 D-1 woman's teams, of that number many would celebrate being above 500 pct on the season. For many teams the goal is to simply to be better than the previous season. For others a little higher on the ladder the goal is to make the NCAA's. That's it, simply to make the tourney is a mile stone for many programs.
Title Nine was a wonderful thing for woman's sports but it also created a situation where many schools only have a woman's basketball team because they have to. A national title is not on their mind at all. As for where my comment came from it is because Geno uses it as his mantra and not many coaches do the same. He also did not start doing that until he reached the stage of it being a possibility each year. It's one thing to pump up the team or a recruit but the goals have to be realistic or you simply sound like a fool. ;)
A good example is this years football team where the goal is to get better every practice and do the same every game. They did so by improving the record over last year and being able to play in a bowl game. The mantra was never to win a NC like Geno's each season. :)
Merry Christmas...
 
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I'm not "calling you out." You been watching too many 21 Jumpstreet episodes?? :eek:

Now, you can realize some facts...one of which is I'm thinking you never played the game...men's or women's, at a competitive level. If you did, you know that all teams set a goal to win a championship (well, maybe not all 349...I'm thinking just the top 100, or so). Point for you...I'm probably wrong about the entire composition of D-1 schools...should have been more precise. The goal might not be realistic, but a goal nonetheless. Whether they're willing to to what it takes to win a championship is a different story. BTW, I'm talking about the players, not the coach or the administration.

No clue about which football team you're referring to. If that really is their "goal" as a D-1 team, then maybe they'll make the McDonald's Quarter Pounder Bowl in Des Moines.

Thanks for the nice stats though. You obviously have a lot of time on your hands; enough to pre-suppose you know all 349 team goals. I'm impressed. Friendly wager: I'll be the players "goal" is to go undefeated. I'll probably lose the bet because you know so much, but what the heck.

Merry Christmas to you as well. :)
 
mudcat said:
One of my favorite films! Lots of great quotes from that one.
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For sure... Guarantee I'll be dredging this thread back up if Debbie wears anything with puffy sleeves on TV.
 
Speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

Going back a few years ago, ND got closer and closer...and then finally turned the corner: feels a little similar except...
However wondrous Courtney is...there was something about Skylar...surely couldn't shoot as well, but just imposed her will on a game.

Speaking against: SFl. didn't see the very best of Stewie nor Moriah the other night...if all 3 of the musketeers are clicking, no one has a chance.

Getting back to ND: there is a different level of desperate competitiveness that Muffit's teams bring to the table.
If you think about it SFl may have more talent right now and as good as their coaching is (and it's good), ND takes them 9 times out of 10.
 
pinotbear said:
I think UCF is gonna find that playing UConn is like differential calculus - just because you get closer and closer to "X", doesn't mean you ever quite get there!:p
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Right, we're the asymptote.!!!!!!
 
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msf22b said:
Speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

Going back a few years ago, ND got closer and closer...and then finally turned the corner: feels a little similar except...
However wondrous Courtney is...there was something about Skylar...surely couldn't shoot as well, but just imposed her will on a game.

Speaking against: SFl. didn't see the very best of Stewie nor Moriah the other night...if all 3 of the musketeers are clicking, no one has a chance.

Getting back to ND: there is a different level of desperate competitiveness that Muffit's teams bring to the table.
If you think about it SFl may have more talent right now and as good as their coaching is (and it's good), ND takes them 9 times out of 10.
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Not even close to being similar. ND lost by 3 points - it was a one point game with 4 seconds left in the 1st meeting - the year the beat us with Skylar in the final four. We had a 21 point lead in the USF game. Huge difference.

And ND was down in the same season by 5 points with 3 minutes left AT UCONN in game 3.

The USF team isn't close to this.
 
Whoever said this was drunk when they said it. No shot this happens.
 
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Well, they prolly get one more shot.
 
They may beat us this year, but not in women's basketball. Baseball season is starting though.
 
Sure looked likie they had a some sort of a chance in the first half.
What hurt them in the second is their lack of size
And difficulty getting their scorers open.
They actually were shown not to match up very well on D
When Geno got his troops on the same page.
 
msf22b said:
Sure looked likie they had a some sort of a chance in the first half.
What hurt them in the second is their lack of size
And difficulty getting their scorers open.
They actually were shown not to match up very well on D
When Geno got his troops on the same page.
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And the 2nd half - the 3rd qtr - reality came crashing down. Another game which wasn't close yet again. And the next time we might meet- they'll need their outside jump shots at UCONN and maybe even in Ct if they are in the UCONN region. LOL in the AAC tourney knocking down lots of perimeter shots with no rest.
 
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