Louisville starting the "Fire Pitino, Hire Stevens" Threads

[bnoro]

I can't link to their scout boards, but people are actually putting his picture in their signatures. This is absolutely hilarious.

Other choices of people who would leave in a heartbeat to coach Louisville: Thad Matta and Scott Drew. LOL.

 

[DNABB5]

I can't link to their scout boards, but people are actually putting his picture in their signatures. This is absolutely hilarious.

Other choices of people who would leave in a heartbeat to coach Louisville: Thad Matta and Scott Drew. LOL.

Starting? It's like 5 pages already.

 

[310Pigpen]

Man I wonder what will happen here when we lose...

 

[DNABB5]

Man I wonder what will happen here when we lose...

Well, one thing will be certain if / when we lose.

Studigor and BlueCurtain will markedly increase their post counts.

I'm still holding out in the IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING camp.

 

[310Pigpen]

Me too but if should be exciting to see what some people do if we lose. We'll see tons of posts about how we shouldve practiced more m2m during the blowouts.

 

[SouthCampusHero]

The more we win, the higher peoples' expectations will be come tourney time. Another sweet 16 loss and people are going to call for JB's head, too.

Remember, we have a well deserved reputation for underachieving in the tournament...

 

[mark79]

They had a stay or go thread 5 pages long and virtually the whole board wanted him gone. There is weeping and gnashing of teeth on that board for sure...

 

[NKR1978]

Me too but if should be exciting to see what some people do if we lose. We'll see tons of posts about how we shouldve practiced more m2m during the blowouts.

Exciting in the way that a zombie apocalypse would be exciting.

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[OrangeCrush22]

The more we win, the higher peoples' expectations will be come tourney time. Another sweet 16 loss and people are going to call for JB's head, too.

Remember, we have a well deserved reputation for underachieving in the tournament...

I've always thought this was stupid. We consistently make the tourney. There are teams that have never even made an appearance.

 

[NKR1978]

I've always thought this was stupid. We consistently make the tourney. There are teams that have never even made an appearance.

I agree. All but 10 programs would love to be us and our fans cry because we aren't one of the 10.

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[MyMeloMyMan]

I've always thought this was stupid. We consistently make the tourney. There are teams that have never even made an appearance.

When you only get past the elite 8 three times...its hard to defend with so many very good teams. Its Final Four or bust this season. Another early ouster will be tough to stomach.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Louisville will still give us everything we can handle in both games and I would be mildly surprised if they don't beat us down there. They aren't playing well but they will be ready for Syracuse, call me crazy. Blasphemy, I know.

And again, if this team bow us in the sweet 16 or even fails to make the final 4 that is all most people will remember. The tournament is pretty much the season, IMO. All I remember from two years ago, is Arinze getting hurt and kill our chances. So yes, final four or bust

 

[Marsh01]

Louisville will still give us everything we can handle in both games and I would be mildly surprised if they don't beat us down there. They aren't playing well but they will be ready for Syracuse, call me crazy. Blasphemy, I know.

And again, if this team bow us in the sweet 16 or even fails to make the final 4 that is all most people will remember. The tournament is pretty much the season, IMO. All I remember from two years ago, is Arinze getting hurt and kill our chances. So yes, final four or bust

I can tell you one thing. Peyton Siva will not foul out with only 2 points against us that's for damn sure. Providence jumped on them and that is the way to beat Louisville.

I too agree that this season we need to make the FF. Seeeing we would not see Kentucky or UNC or Ohio State say until the FF there is no reason why we should not make it.

 

[Knicks411]

I can't believe Lville lost by 30 last night.

We really should win this league by a few games.

 

[Dcuse]

Louisville will still give us everything we can handle in both games and I would be mildly surprised if they don't beat us down there. They aren't playing well but they will be ready for Syracuse, call me crazy. Blasphemy, I know.

And again, if this team bow us in the sweet 16 or even fails to make the final 4 that is all most people will remember. The tournament is pretty much the season, IMO. All I remember from two years ago, is Arinze getting hurt and kill our chances. So yes, final four or bust

I agree with you on Louisville. I disagree on final four. I still believe we could have won it all without Arinze. I also believe we could easily have lost with him. I know it's done all the time but there is no way you can base a season on the tournament solely.

 

[jdubs30]

Even if we can chalk up losses to Louisville in Ville and UConn in Connecticut, we could still easily win this league by a few games (like Knicks411 said).

The margin for error for us right now is pretty high.

 

[Knicks411]

Even if we can chalk up losses to Louisville in Ville and UConn in Connecticut, we could still easily win this league by a few games (like Knicks411 said).

The margin for error for us right now is pretty high.

Yeah, look at the standings. There are only 3 teams (other than us) with fewer than 2 losses already. Seton Hall, Cincy, and ND. Pomeroy is projecting us to finish at 16-2, with second place at 12-6. It's not guaranteed to finish that way, of course, but we could even throw another loss in there, finish 15-3, and win by 2 or 3 games.

This is a comment that may come back to bite me right now, but if you take the Pomeroy projection as a median finish, 16-2, I think we're more likely to finish 17-1 than 15-3. I know road games are hard; I beat that drum more than anyone, trust me, but I dunno this year. We're really good, and there aren't any teams all that close to us in the conference.

The pomeroy ratings aren't the gospel, but as they stand right now, we play one team in the top 25 for the rest of the year, Gtown at home. We're now have a 70% chance or bet ter of winning every game for the rest of the year. He's got us 9.8% to run the (regular season) table.

 

[Marsh01]

If we make it to the Georgetown game with 0 or 1 loss then we probably will all but have wrapped up the regular season title as we would probably have a 3 game lead over the 2nd place team. All we would need to do is basically split with Uconn/Ville.

The next 6 game are very big. The ND/Cincy 2 games in 3 days swing is not going to be easy and these 2 games worry me more than any game prior to that (which includes Pitt).

 

[RoysRunts]

IMO If it's a Internal problem (Player A and player B hate one another/Girls/ etc) Pitino can't fix it, If it's just Basketball and attitude he can.

 

[Marsh01]

IMO If it's a Internal problem (Player A and player B hate one another/Girls/ etc) Pitino can't fix it, If it's just Basketball and attitude he can.

I think its pretty obvious that there is some serius turmoil on that team. A couple of guys in the doghouse which is never good.

 

[OttoMets]

Yeah, look at the standings. There are only 3 teams (other than us) with fewer than 2 losses already. Seton Hall, Cincy, and ND. Pomeroy is projecting us to finish at 16-2, with second place at 12-6. It's not guaranteed to finish that way, of course, but we could even throw another loss in there, finish 15-3, and win by 2 or 3 games.

This is a comment that may come back to bite me right now, but if you take the Pomeroy projection as a median finish, 16-2, I think we're more likely to finish 17-1 than 15-3. I know road games are hard; I beat that drum more than anyone, trust me, but I dunno this year. We're really good, and there aren't any teams all that close to us in the conference.

The pomeroy ratings aren't the gospel, but as they stand right now, we play one team in the top 25 for the rest of the year, Gtown at home. We're now have a 70% chance or bet ter of winning every game for the rest of the year. He's got us 9.8% to run the (regular season) table.

You're one of the more reasonable posters on here, but even 15-3 sounds pretty optimistic. With three games against Pittsburgh and Louisville (who has made a habit of losing 30-point games in the same season it handles Syracuse with ease), that seems like two likely losses at best. Pomeroy's numbers don't reflect this, but when there are two teams who we haven't beaten in six years, losses seem more likely than wins. No matter how bad those two teams are, we're their Colgate until we prove otherwise.

Throw in a home-and-home with Georgetown, a tough road game at Cincinnati, and a Super Bowl-level performance from everyone as long as we're ranked #1, and 15 wins looks difficult - even if we play well. And it's a lot to ask to play well every night.

 

[Marsh01]

Throw in a home-and-home with Georgetown, a tough road game at Cincinnati, and a Super Bowl-level performance from everyone as long as we're ranked #1, and 15 wins looks difficult - even if we play well. And it's a lot to ask to play well every night.

We actually only play Georgetown once this year. Probably meant Uconn.

 

[Knicks411]

You're one of the more reasonable posters on here, but even 15-3 sounds pretty optimistic. With three games against Pittsburgh and Louisville (who has made a habit of losing 30-point games in the same season it handles Syracuse with ease), that seems like two likely losses at best. Pomeroy's numbers don't reflect this, but when there are two teams who we haven't beaten in six years, losses seem more likely than wins. No matter how bad those two teams are, we're their Colgate until we prove otherwise.

Throw in a home-and-home with Georgetown, a tough road game at Cincinnati, and a Super Bowl-level performance from everyone as long as we're ranked #1, and 15 wins looks difficult - even if we play well. And it's a lot to ask to play well every night.

That is more of a reflection of down the other teams in the conference seem to be this year. I am generally with you on Lville and Pitt; I had been penciling them in as losses, or at least very tough games to win, for most of the year, but I dunno now. Pitt looks TERRIBLE. I am sure @Lville will still be really though, but we really should beat them at home now. I'm going to say 2-1 in that 3 game stretch.

I hear what you're saying, but teams pretty much go 15-3 int he BE every year. Since the league has gone to the 18 game season, at least one team has gone at least 15-3 every year. We're clearly the best team team, the rest of the conference is not as good, we SHOULD (and once again, I may hate msyelf for saying this) go at least 15-3.

 

[NKR1978]

You're one of the more reasonable posters on here, but even 15-3 sounds pretty optimistic. With three games against Pittsburgh and Louisville (who has made a habit of losing 30-point games in the same season it handles Syracuse with ease), that seems like two likely losses at best. Pomeroy's numbers don't reflect this, but when there are two teams who we haven't beaten in six years, losses seem more likely than wins. No matter how bad those two teams are, we're their Colgate until we prove otherwise.

Throw in a home-and-home with Georgetown, a tough road game at Cincinnati, and a Super Bowl-level performance from everyone as long as we're ranked #1, and 15 wins looks difficult - even if we play well. And it's a lot to ask to play well every night.

Damn your rationality. When you put it like that, 15 wins will be tough, but I just don't think these teams are that good (ND, Cincy). I think 16-2 is doable and that would be a great Big East season.

Have to win tonight though.

 

[OttoMets]

We actually only play Georgetown once this year. Probably meant Uconn.

Oops, sorry. Meant UConn, and forgot about Georgetown. Though I have a good feeling about the Georgetown game this year, so I guess it doesn't support my point.