I am sorry, I do not see fans that cannot move on. Everyone I know are very happy we have Nikki and were glad we had Kim but are not sorry that she is gone. I loved her when she was winning at Baylor but want to see her lose every game she coaches. I am a Baylor fan not a Kim fan.Stefano DiMera said:
A road win against a team that had won 23 in a row at home when every call went against us down the stretch.
Nikki is building her foundation now but we have too many fans that can't move on.
Nothing..I mean nothing in life lasts forever.
I'm not sure you can compare getting last night's 2nd round monkey off our back to conquering the ultimate summit, but I would posit that an apt comparison would be the win over Duke in the 2010 Elite Eight. We had won the title in 2005, had a tremendous recruiting class (Player/Morrow/Allison/etc) that was good but fell short at every turn all 4 years they were there (lost the conference titles to OU and Courtney Paris each year, Emily Niemann abandoning the team at the beginning of the 2005-06 school year, Jhasmin's torn ACL in 2008, Rachel's stress reactions in 2009). We had the even greater recruiting class of 2009-10, but they were all raw and had suffered numerous bad losses through the season, but everything finally clicked in the last 5 minutes of the Duke game and we came from 8 down to win.blackie said:
I am making a statement of which you need to read the words very carefully, so as to not read them to imply anything other than what they say.
I believe this win may be the most important win that we have had considering where the program was at the time of the game since the 2005 Michigan State game.
I am not saying this is the greatest win we have had or the greatest achievement.....certainly not, but I think as viewed from where the program stood before the game was played, I really can't think of any other that had the potential to have the most impact going forward.
Before 2005, Baylor WBB was nothing more than another name in a hodge-podge of mediocrity. After the 2005 Michigan State game, the Lady Bears (at the time) were on the WBB map of teams that were relevant. No ceiling was too high for them. Nothing they accomplished after would be shocking. They were a respected entity in the sport.
With the events of the summer of 2021, the program was thrown into the trash can. And the sad thing is that the ones who proclaimed the end of any relevance were not so much the WBB world outside of Baylor, but by supposed Baylor fans. And some of the worst no doubt on this board. The team on this board was called a junior high team with a coach who didn't know what she was doing, didn't really want to be here, didn't care about defense and was bought on the "cheap" because of an administration that saw the WBB program as a necessary evil in funding.
The win last night will obviously need to be followed through on in coming years to be considered a true turning point, but I can think of no other win since that one in 2005 that sent a message about a change in direction of the health and potential positive future of the program considering where it had been up to that point in its recent history.
I knew this comment would rear its head, but I wasn't going to comment until I saw it. We all know this was not the VT team of earlier in the year. The thing is the committee knew that as well. If Kitley was still playing, VT would not have been a 4-seed. They would have been higher which would have pushed another team down to the 4. The point being we beat the higher seeded team on its home court in front of a very motivated packed house in a tough place to play. If the committee felt that VT didn't even deserve a 4 seed without Kitley, they would not have been there. And VT did have time to develop their game knowing Kitley would be unavailable. They did not have that time prior to the ACC tournament.GrizBear said:
Some of you will be getting a big dose of reality soon.
Great win by the Lady Bears for sure, but this was not the same Virginia Tech team that was undefeated at home this season. Do I have to remind you they lost 3-time ACC POY Elizabeth Kitley to an ACL in their last regular season game? After that, Notre Dame beat them by 29 in the ACC tournament.
Even then, it took a heroic and fabulous effort by Jada Walker to pull this one off. Super glad for Jada and the Lady Bears but this was not the landmark win some of you are making it out to be.
I don't think anyone expects this team to make a final four. Anything from here on this year is gravy. Hardly a reality check if we lose to a one seed.GrizBear said:
Some of you will be getting a big dose of reality soon.
Great win by the Lady Bears for sure, but this was not the same Virginia Tech team that was undefeated at home this season. Do I have to remind you they lost 3-time ACC POY Elizabeth Kitley to an ACL in their last regular season game? After that, Notre Dame beat them by 29 in the ACC tournament.
Even then, it took a heroic and fabulous effort by Jada Walker to pull this one off. Super glad for Jada and the Lady Bears but this was not the landmark win some of you are making it out to be.
BigGameBaylorBear said:
I posted one of the KM threads but it wasn't anything about praising her
Anyways, who are we playing next?
Pardon my cluelessness, but who is Foster?Task Force 2015 said:
I think this win coupled with the returning players(most if not all guards plus the super soph forwards)will facilitate getting a couple of established power five quality bigs.I am not giving up on our young bigs but we need a dose or two of established player height.Foster should help recruiting as well.
