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View Poll Results: What seed will UC get this year in the Tournament? | |||
1-4 | 24 | 38.71% | |
5-8 | 35 | 56.45% | |
9-16 | 3 | 4.84% | |
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06-24-2016, 01:04 PM | #501 | |
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I enter every year of UC basketball with excitement. I also enter EVERY year of UC basketball under Mick Cronin with uncertainty. |
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06-24-2016, 02:53 PM | #502 |
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What kind of buzz will there be for the team this year from more casual fans? I don't live in the city anymore so it's hard for me to get a pulse for what the local fans expect. Will attendance be down? Seems like there was a lot of hype last year, and hope to see a more uptempo/entertaining style of play. Since we obviously didn't get that (and fans of the other team in the city did), I wonder if the disappointment has numbed some of the more bandwagon/borderline supporters.
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06-24-2016, 03:31 PM | #503 | |
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There is zero "buzz" for UC Basketball for 2016/2017, and this stellar spring recruiting hasn't helped. From this state of the program, we will attempt once again to have that illusive "special" season. I look for attendance to be about the same and may go up if we start winning consistently and catch some momentum. There was some decent pre-season hype last year, deservedly so, but the final results were a big disappointment. Even with the hype, I was told season ticket sales were as low as ever last season. If it starts looking like a typical Cronin "respectable" season again, on the heels of last season's disappointment, and with Xavier looking elite again, attendance could take a tumble. |
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06-24-2016, 04:09 PM | #504 | |
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Cintas on the other hand, has great seats everywhere. So uc plays the cake teams in early part of the season, or thr weak teams in our conference, people dont go to those games because why put up with bad sightlines for a game that might be better suited for home. But when uc plays big teams, the place is rockin and sold out. Lets see what happns in a new arena |
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06-24-2016, 08:55 PM | #505 | |
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06-24-2016, 10:39 PM | #506 |
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To say a roster with 2 all conference starters and an all freshman selection joining a top 50 incoming freshman and a 4 star transfer is a group lacking talent is frankly ignorant and said with no purpose other than to flame the discussion. But you do you, L-T...
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06-25-2016, 12:29 AM | #507 | |
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06-25-2016, 05:42 AM | #508 |
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Really excited for next season. Starting 5 is very good and I'm still holding out hope the staff will add another player. Team should be very competitive in the league in both regular season and conference tourney. They will make the NCAA again which is my favorite sporting event to follow. Once there anything can happen.
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06-25-2016, 09:35 AM | #509 | |
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06-25-2016, 10:02 AM | #510 |
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The "naysayers" may just be tired of the same cycle year after year. I appreciate the effort some of you make to try to spin everything in a positive direction, but not living up to expectations year after year grows old. It cracks me up when people act like not thinking that UC is going to be as good as others do, means you must go through life as a negative person. I don't want to speak for everyone, but I think most of us have lives outside of this board and team lol. And it's really as simple to me as having no interest in talking myself into believing something that I have very serious doubts about. And I won't be bullied into toeing the party lines and conforming to the group-think. Every year it's something. Last year it was that we were on the floor with Kentucky for a while, we had the whole team back, we were going to push the pace, Ellis was Preseason 1st Team AAC, etc. And we saw what happened. This year apparently it's about Cumberland and Washington's recruiting rankings (which is funny bc most of the time we talk about how flawed those ratings are), and having a good starting 5 (which is just code for: No Bench).
Anyway, I'm just not going to go all in and expect anything in the preseason anymore. If some think that's somehow a reflection on me as a person, then lol. I don't know why it's so important to some of you to have everyone believe exactly as you do. I've been around this board long enough to recognize the tactics. But there's a track record with our coach, who is the constant, that I just have a hard time ignoring. I hope I'm wrong. I really do. I really hope all the things the "good" fans say come true. But I don't feel like setting myself up for disappointment again when we're struggling to get out of the 50s in every single AAC road game, whether we're playing a tournament team, or team that ranks in the bottom 100 of Division 1 basketball. I really wish I could get in on the "positive spin" with some of you guys, but I watch the games. And until I am given the pleasure of watching something else (which isn't totally impossible), I just can't get there. Last edited by jacobkdoyle; 06-25-2016 at 10:11 AM. |
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