Fozzie said:
Doug said:
xiledinok said:
If Baylor uses it as an opportunity to have a corporate sponsor like they absolutely should, the nickname should come from the sponsor.
The current facility is not an excuse for the men to not make the tournament. Our coach is still looking for his breakout conference championship. It gets harder to sell his program each new season. A decade and a half is a good sample size for the stat guys.
Exactly. If you can't win it all in 15 years.... you never will.
Extremely nice guy.. yes.
Award winning coach... NO.
Reaching the Round of 8 is more luck of the Bracket, than being elite.
Only Basketball loyalist get excited about Scott Drew Basketball.
The butts in the seats prove it.
critical thinking is not your strong suit, I fully understand.
About 10 teams are trying to win in WBB. You can celebrate the 2nd highest paid coach in her sport with a bloated budget that spends money like a shopaholic on Black Friday, making the Elite 8 each year only to get bounced by some 3 point shooting team if you want.
In MBB, we have 350 teams trying hard to win. Certainly every P5 school is putting significant resources towards that end. Drew is 48 and in his coaching prime and has already proven himself as a winner during the learning years. Give him a new fieldhouse and an evolving roster that places emphasis on 3 pt shooting (Drew understands the game is evolving and changed his roster accordingly), there is no telling what he could do in his prime. Perhaps stumble into a national title like a Jay Wright.
The men do outdraw the women by the way. I root for both teams to do well. But hopefully our AD is prioritizing the men and football because those two sports are the only ones that matter financially.
I'm always amazed when women's basketball fans try to act like there is any comparison between the two sports. Everytime someone tries to compare Geno's UConn streak to Wooden's 88 consecutive I cringe. There are literally 8 women's teams capable of winning a natty each year and they beat every other team by 30+.
The men's tournament has existed since 1939. All four number 1 seeds have made the final four exactly once, in 2008 when Memphis, Kansas, UNC, and UCLA made it. The women's tournament has only been around since 1982 and it's happened 4 times. The talent disparity in women's college basketball is absurd. 7 teams have gone undefeated in men's basketball, none since 1976, and none since the tournament expanded to 64 teams. In women's basketball it's already happened 12 times just since 1973. Our 2012 Lady Bears among that group.
Yes, we're lucky that Baylor is one of the "it" programs that gets that high level talent and get's to be in that elite group. But bagging on Scott Drew for what he hasn't accomplished is ridiculous considering what he has accomplished. I would argue Mulkey only winning 1 national championship out of 4 years with Griner on the team is a huge black mark on her resume. Griner was the most dominant physical presence to ever step foot on a women's college court. Those teams really underperformed.
Sic Everyone.
