Crash Davis said:I say this as someone who holds our 3 Big XII baseball championships VERY near and dear to my heart, but the 2 years we won the Big XII and didn't make it to the CWS...I'd flip those accomplishments in a heartbeat. The dream every year is to get to Omaha...if you can win a trophy or two along the way, great! But it isn't a prerequisite to get to where you want to go.Bear8084 said:Crash Davis said:
Goodness. We have some of the dumbest fans in the country. It's really pretty incredible.
Every basketball season it's like this. Just recently the wrong belief that a regular season Conference Championship is better than any wins in the NCAA Tourney has taken hold with a small number of fans on here. I am glad the majority don't believe that.
I view basketball similarly. Winning the conference is a great accomplishment. I hope we do it next year and get that monkey off our back. But a deep tournament run is at least as important to me, if not more, than winning the conference.
And don't even get me started about people *****ing about conference tournament championships. I'm all for winning one...let's do it. But if we don't, I seriously don't give a ****. And if folks are going to get all hot and bothered over conference tournament championships, then maybe it's time to start giving Drew a little bit more credit for winning tournaments like the Battle for Atlantis. Beating VCU, Michigan State, and Louisville is every bit as impressive as winning a conference tournament championship.
My thoughts exactly.