From fire the coach at halftime of Air Force to finishing conference 11-1.
Hill tore his ACL... he's not coming back.
We haven’t even made the tournament for over 10 years now, but our “immediate” goal should be national championship game?
I think getting into NCAA would secure Kruger for next year. Possible silver lining to hill and webster injuries is the emergence of hicks and whaley. they look like solid pieces to build around if they will come back. also - what in the hell happened with nowell?
We should of beat CSU and Utah St and be at the top of the MWC. I still thinks a good chance we get there. I really like Thomas, Hicks and Whaley . Do I think CKK is the answer ? No! But he has a chance to make things real hard for Harper this off-season. Other than that egg vs AF we have played competitively vs the best the MWC has to offer. Should i be all doom and gloom? I'll say this again unless we get a home run higher or close to it and CKK finishes strong as in top 2 in the MWC and gets to the championship game! maybe we give him one more year? I do think that there might be a huge drop off in recruiting next year regardless without a contract extension. Unless kids can bolt multiple times with no penalty. I believe that's in the courts.
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I know what he’s saying. But I do think SDSU had a ton of luck and very little being “better” than the opposition throughout the NCAAT, so while they were a finals team, it was a Cinderella. So I can’t make that the bar. But I get what he’s saying, it’s been proven it can be done within the league. Just like Odom. He showed you CAN win at UNLV.
But you were doom and gloom. That’s what you’re forgetting. And now you are talking winning 10 of 11. That’s one bipolar ass fan.
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Jesus Christ, you put a lot of thought into this.We win out and everyone else losses in the just the right amounts and we could be at the top of the conference. ( Unless USU wins out) And of course, every player should be playing their heart out to win every game.
But, even if we win out, with three quad 4 losses I believe the only way we can be sure to get in the NCAA's is to win the Tourney.
If that's true, then the real key is getting to fifth place. That requires one less victory to win the MWC Tourney.
Traditionally, 7 losses guarantee a 5th place spot. ( A few times 8 losses gets to 5th) That means going 5-3 for the rest of our games. We'll be favored against Fresno State, AF, Wyoming and San Jose. IF we can get those four, then we'll need a win against either Colorado State, Reno ( twice) or SDSU. I believe we should be able to get a win against Reno or CSU and get in 5th. Then the rest is up to seeding and a really strong tourney run.
And for those thinking we can back into an NIT spot check out the selection rules below. Non power-5 is at a distinct disadvantage.
NIT announces changes to tournament selection format - NCAA.org
The NIT Board of Managers has announced changes for the 2024 National Invitation Tournament that impact how teams qualify.
The southern game had no kalib boone. Whaley 16 min and cotrell 26 minutes. And DJ got smoked the entire 1st half. Yes, they were not ready to play.
I'm not too sure we would have beat Southern even with him. We looked terrible that game.
Dude , I'm allow to change my opinion on where this team is headed. We are playing better. Are we a great or even good team? No! I say we are decent to pretty good. We are literally 3 plays away from having 3 more quad 1 wins and being a LOCK from having a autobid. Yes in a weakened MWC compared to years past.
But you do realize, you’re thinking win out essentially …. But if they were to lose at Fresno or lose to UNR, you’ll just jump back on the fire Kruger bandwagon at halftime … those are extreme positions, absolutes, most of life is some shade of gray. It’s knee jerk, it’s reactionary … changing your mind, no problem. And even with your extreme flip flops, no problem, I’m just calling it out.
We aren’t even a good team according to you, yet we are pretty good according to you.
I think a large percentage of us have gone back and forth with UNLV basketball this season. At one point they look like the best team in the conference, at the next point they look like the worst team in the conference. That has been how the entire season has gone up to this point. It is interesting that UNLV is favored in 7 of the 8 games left according to ESPN. The only game UNLV is not favored to win is against unr at unr. If UNLV can keep playing the way they have for the last four games, and that is a big if, then they could end up with 20 wins to finish the season which is a significant improvement over last season. They also have a chance to have one of the best in conference records that they have had in years. Currently 6-4 in comparison to going 7-11 last year in conference.
KenPom has us going 4-4 in out last 8. Let's see them get by Fresno and re-evaluate.
Winning six should give us 5th place. Our momentum will be fine. But losing to Reno and SDSU will guarantee we will need to win the MWCT to get in to post season.
I didnt think about it like that. I agree that those 2 possible wins are needed. i still think that we have no shot to make the tourney as an at large with our bad losses.
Good point. Personally I think we god 6-2 the rest of the way. Split Reno and lose to SDSU here. We would probably lose at Reno.
Beating USU on the road would be tough, but we played them quite well the first time and got robbed. I think we would have a good shot at winning that game especially the revenge/redemption factor.
Yes, extremely likely. Also lets say that were T-1st somehow heading into that game and we lose.. USU takes the title and we end up at like 5th place because of it. Thats a huge blow. Im still not sold we wont drop a dumb game and especially playing SDSU who we just cant beat but they havent exactly been the same team we got in January. If we do follow our new identity of not taking forced 3 point shots and just taking the offense as needed, itll certainly change the way SDSU forced us into bad 3s..
It’s what happened to UNLV and Hauck. The AD’s hands were forced when he made a bowl in his last year. They had already pulled the plug on him, but how can UNLV fire their football coach after he takes them to a bowl?
Hauck didn't even come close to making a bowl game in his last year. In 2013 he went to a bowl game with a final 7-6 record against a really weak schedule, in 2014 Hauck went back to a 2-11 record. Four out of five years he won 2 games for a final record of 15-49 for a winning record of 23.4%.
Think if we had Hall and Whaley ?
Whaley, Gilbert, DTJ, and Boones... Bench Hall, Lou Rod, Hicks...
I meant to say that his bowl year was supposed to be his last year. They were ready to fire him and then he made the bowl so they had to bring him back for one more year
Yeah, I think we forced them to shoot a bunch of 3s early and thats what got us out to a good lead, but their #6 in FG% in Country and going away from the easy stuff vs SDSU was a mistake. But thats also what SDSU did to us and we just kept chucking them instead of trying to beat them inside and get into foul issues. If we can shift to being a high % shot taking team and get occasional 3s enough to keep defenses honest we might stand a chance.
