BGSU vs Brad's and Chad's

[Rollo83]

What? No Huger extension talk?

[Globetrotter]

You could argue this is top 3 crushing loss in the past 20 years.

1. Grukenmiller 35 footer with his eyes closed to force OT in Cleveland after we secured the 1 seed.
2. MAC title game vs elite 8 Kent team
3. This one, possibly cutting Friday's attendance in half and losing out on the opportunity to create A LOT of buzz for the program

I am super unlikely to go now. It would have been difficult, had to get a babysitter, figure out daycare etc. etc. 100% not worth it if this team is what they were the first 9 games.

It's not about losing. It's about losing to a bad team and getting embarrassed doing it.

19 first half points? What is this 7th grade basketball?
10 assists to 15 turnovers
35% from the field and 45 % from the line.
Our 1st team all mac center scores 4 points.

This is exactly the team we were the first 9 weeks. No energy, no leadership, no aggressiveness.

[BleedOrange]

Kill Grunkenmeyer

[Hooper]

Please don’t come to the game. The team is crashing because of 1 game? But please keep posting because you make me laugh.

[hammb]

Please don’t come to the game. The team is crashing because of 1 game? But please keep posting because you make me laugh.

Why because we played so poorly that it makes you question the last 10 games.

That's the problem with this team being completely bipolar. When they want to move the ball they can play well, but their old habit is one of the bottom 100 teams in d1. There is a reason why we were picked last in the MAC. Hopefully today was a blip and we can get back to moving the ball.

Truly good teams don't lose to Miami by playing like garbage, but I think we all knew we weren't that good. Hopefully we can get back to winning and hit a roll in March.

[Hooper]

Re-read all the bandwagon posts over the last 2 weeks and today’s comments and you have the symptoms of bi-polar. This team is learning how to win. There will be a curve. But I have been around the teams since Orr and I can tell you that this is by FAR the most close, smart and respectful group of kids we have had, up and down the roster. I have been a long time watcher of this site and finally broke. Be supporters and not crazy SEC type fanatics. There is something special happening with our basketball program and ripping it does nothing good.

[MarkL]

Eh. This happens. We were not supposed to be this good this year. So coming back down a bit is not unsurprising. We've seen how good this squad can be and that is far better than I ever expected.

[Globetrotter]

Re-read all the bandwagon posts over the last 2 weeks and today’s comments and you have the symptoms of bi-polar. This team is learning how to win. There will be a curve. But I have been around the teams since Orr and I can tell you that this is by FAR the most close, smart and respectful group of kids we have had, up and down the roster. I have been a long time watcher of this site and finally broke. Be supporters and not crazy SEC type fanatics. There is something special happening with our basketball program and ripping it does nothing good.

They were awful today. And they have 100% control over how hard they work and their energy on the court. It doesn't matter if they lose a game here and there. It matters if they actually come out and play hard.

My dad happens to be in town today so I threw the game on. He isn't very tech savvy so he doesn't watch many games. I was excited to watch it with him. The team has been rolling like you said and they seem close and fun to watch. I am happy that the team is close but wins matter more, and winning tends to be a product of a close team. That has been the case all year but wasn't the case today. I had told him the team was great but they didn't fight through anything today. The bench didn't pick up where the starters let up. You are calling the fans bipolar but this team is bipolar. The stats show it. Games 1-9 were played one way. Games 10-19 another. Game 20 back to the same way games 1-9 were played. My dad was on the team with Thurmond and Komives and I have been a BG fan since I started school in 98. Collectively we have seen most of the best players at BG outside of Antonio Daniels. It's going to be hard to try to get my dad to watch another game. We've seen great basketball at BG and while this is getting closer, I'm not ready to believe quite yet. This coaching staff hasn't even filled out a roster since they have been on campus. He is very likely to coach his most wins ever here, but what will that mean? Somewhere around a 19-11 season with a first game exit from the MAC tournament is an improvement but not that much.

[Globetrotter]

This team has a lot of similarities to the team we had of Matela-Pardon-McCleod-Cowboy-Crawford/Jackson. This might be the best overall talent and depth, including that team, since I have paid attention starting in 1998. What they are missing is a killer instinct on the court. Our 1st team all MAC center folds the moment adversity happens. Our guards today faced some pressure and wilted. Friday will matter a ton if they can just come back and fight. I don't expect a victory at all but battling and getting close is probably good enough in this case.

[mbenecke]

I think the team was looking ahead to Buffalo just a little too much, and they ran into a team they should not have looked past. All week, all the talk around the program was about the Buffalo game and how great we are, where we're projected in the tournament, etc. You could see it, even on the social media of the players, that their focus was completely on that game.

This team has been humbled, and now we'll see what they're made of on Friday night.

[Globetrotter]

I think the team was looking ahead to Buffalo just a little too much, and they ran into a team they should not have looked past. All week, all the talk around the program was about the Buffalo game and how great we are, where we're projected in the tournament, etc. You could see it, even on the social media of the players, that their focus was completely on that game.

This team has been humbled, and now we'll see what they're made of on Friday night.

Or they are not very good and were getting lucky.

[mbenecke]

I think the team was looking ahead to Buffalo just a little too much, and they ran into a team they should not have looked past. All week, all the talk around the program was about the Buffalo game and how great we are, where we're projected in the tournament, etc. You could see it, even on the social media of the players, that their focus was completely on that game.

This team has been humbled, and now we'll see what they're made of on Friday night.

Or they are not very good and were getting lucky.

I feel like getting lucky 10 games in a row seems unlikely, but you're entitled to that opinion.

One loss doesn't change the fact that this team was 6-0 in the MAC when they picked to finish last in the entire conference before the year.

[Globetrotter]

I think the team was looking ahead to Buffalo just a little too much, and they ran into a team they should not have looked past. All week, all the talk around the program was about the Buffalo game and how great we are, where we're projected in the tournament, etc. You could see it, even on the social media of the players, that their focus was completely on that game.

This team has been humbled, and now we'll see what they're made of on Friday night.

Or they are not very good and were getting lucky.

I feel like getting lucky 10 games in a row seems unlikely, but you're entitled to that opinion.

One loss doesn't change the fact that this team was 6-0 in the MAC when they picked to finish last in the entire conference before the year.

It's not an opinion. Its an option. They have literally played 10 games and half of them were one way and half were the other way. The evidence says they can go either way. The 10 games in a row are a blip on the Huger mediocrity radar. There is a reason they were picked last, in the 4th year of a coaches tenure, when he has all of his own players, who should know his system through and through. He still created the team that was picked last. He wasn't saddled with it. Jury is still out.

[factman]

Who the hell cares where you were picked?

[Globetrotter]

Who the hell cares where you were picked?

I don't think it really matters, but it's certainly not a good look for a 4th year head coach to be picked last in his league by his peers.