I actually like that matchup, might be best to stay there
Gotta love the Gophers fan base. We've won one Tournament game in 29 years and we're worried about who our second-round matchup would be.
Gotta love the Gophers fan base. We've won one Tournament game in 29 years and we're worried about who our second-round matchup would be.
Gotta love the Gophers fan base. We've won one Tournament game in 29 years and we're worried about who our second-round matchup would be.
Gotta love the Gophers fan base. We've won one Tournament game in 29 years and we're worried about who our second-round matchup would be.
What a dumb post. Why wouldn't fans get excited and hope for a run? Do you actually think how our teams have done over the previous 29 years directly influences our chances for this year? Have you boycotted the tournament over that span and not realized that lower seeds make runs all the time?
Gotta love the Gophers fan base
if we are matched against Wofford, are we the top #10 seed?
That would really be something to be excited about!
Get excited and hope for a run all you want. It's really, really stupid to worry about seeding when your team is lucky to even be playing in the Tournament.
How the Gophers have done over the previous 29 years doesn't impact the team's chances for this year, but for a sensible person, it should have long taught you by now to manage your expectations. This fanbase, time and again, leads with the chin and has exceedingly high expectations that don't match reality, and then get upset when the teams, time and again, don't meet those unrealistically high expectations. And yet people don't learn. This is true for most sports here. After a scintillating 7-6 run last year, the football board recently had a thread where many expect the team to contend for the West division. Again, that's fine, but it's unrealistic and those fans will be pissed when it almost certainly doesn't happen. There was a thread yesterday on the women's basketball board saying that if we sign Bueckers, we will be "ESPN darlings" and contend for national titles.
It's their right to do that, and it's my right to comment on how stupid it is. It's sort of the equivalent of touching the hot oven over and over again and continually wondering why you get burned each time. Most people figure out quickly not to touch the oven, but this fanbase wants to keep doing it.
For some of you this must be your first interaction with dpodoll. This is actually a very optimistic post for him.
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It's OK to hope for the best. It's also OK to hold the athletic department at the University to some kind of standards. This is a Big Ten University. It should be expected that your BBall program will run to the sweet sixteen or that your football program will win a division title once in awhile. That doesn't mean people believe that is where we are at right now. But lowering expectations and accepting mediocrity doesn't do you any good either. This is not a mid major program.
Why? If you acknowledge that your team is flawed, isn't that more reason to worry about seeding and hope that you get the best matchup possible? I'd worry less about seeding and who we got paired with if I was convinced we were going all the way regardless.It's really, really stupid to worry about seeding when your team is lucky to even be playing in the Tournament.
How the Gophers have done over the previous 29 years doesn't impact the team's chances for this year, but for a sensible person, it should have long taught you by now to manage your expectations. This fanbase, time and again, leads with the chin and has exceedingly high expectations that don't match reality, and then get upset when the teams, time and again, don't meet those unrealistically high expectations. And yet people don't learn. This is true for most sports here. After a scintillating 7-6 run last year, the football board recently had a thread where many expect the team to contend for the West division. Again, that's fine, but it's unrealistic and those fans will be pissed when it almost certainly doesn't happen. There was a thread yesterday on the women's basketball board saying that if we sign Bueckers, we will be "ESPN darlings" and contend for national titles.
It's their right to do that, and it's my right to comment on how stupid it is. It's sort of the equivalent of touching the hot oven over and over again and continually wondering why you get burned each time. Most people figure out quickly not to touch the oven, but this fanbase wants to keep doing it.
lol, I don't think you're optimistic but that's definitely the funniest thing you've ever written!I'm actually a very optimistic person..
Gotta love the Gophers fan base. We've won one Tournament game in 29 years and we're worried about who our second-round matchup would be.
Didn't we beat UCLA in 2013 to get to the round of 32?
You are clearly confusing the difference between hoping for a run and expecting a run. We are hoping for a run, and our best chance to do that is by getting an ideal seed/matchup.
Cool cool cool. When we get a 10 seed and get bounced by whatever 7 seed we face, I expect not to see any posts lamenting how if only we'd had an 8 seed we could've beaten that one weak 9 seed, and how we got screwed on seeding.
Really proving that claim that you are a "very optimistic person".
Get excited and hope for a run all you want. It's really, really stupid to worry about seeding when your team is lucky to even be playing in the Tournament.
How the Gophers have done over the previous 29 years doesn't impact the team's chances for this year, but for a sensible person, it should have long taught you by now to manage your expectations. This fanbase, time and again, leads with the chin and has exceedingly high expectations that don't match reality, and then get upset when the teams, time and again, don't meet those unrealistically high expectations. And yet people don't learn. This is true for most sports here. After a scintillating 7-6 run last year, the football board recently had a thread where many expect the team to contend for the West division. Again, that's fine, but it's unrealistic and those fans will be pissed when it almost certainly doesn't happen. There was a thread yesterday on the women's basketball board saying that if we sign Bueckers, we will be "ESPN darlings" and contend for national titles.
It's their right to do that, and it's my right to comment on how stupid it is. It's sort of the equivalent of touching the hot oven over and over again and continually wondering why you get burned each time. Most people figure out quickly not to touch the oven, but this fanbase wants to keep doing it.
Again - realism is not pessimism. I'm hoping that the Gophers win, but it's not likely - whether your basis is the past 29 years of Gophers basketball or solely watching the performance of this year's team.