Would be the all time greatest thing to ever happen in sports if FGCU won it all..

[WorldNumberOne]

i'd venture a guess that less than 3 or 4 % of the brakets in ESPN's millions of entries have FGCU on them now.

that makes it impressive to me..

 

[JohnnyMac]

I did not even know they existed 2 weeks ago.

What!?! You say congrats to them and that they have been through a lot in three years!

How would you know if you hadn't heard of them?

 

[WorldNumberOne]

this team lost to lipscomb twice and east tennessee state once. those 2 teams were 22-40 ... didnt even win their own conference.

 

[Enfuego]

I did not even know they existed 2 weeks ago.

Then you don't follow CBB closely. This team beat Miami of Florida this year. Impressive in its own right.

 

[WorldNumberOne]

Then you don't follow CBB closely. This team beat Miami of Florida this year. Impressive in its own right.

it was the first or second game of the year. not discounting it, but it wasnt late in the year when miami was rolling. miami wasnt even close to being ranked pre season.

 

[Enfuego]

What part of not as impressive do you not understand?

Yes FGC is very talented.
Just that fact alone is incredible.
Save me the Florida has a lot of talent lingo. I can name you 10 Florida D1 schools that have not done squat.
Just the fact that a basketball program that did not exist 6 years ago and was able to hire a great coach and in 6 years( and there 2nd year if NCAA eligibility) not only get to the tourney for the first time in there history but to blow out 2 programs that have been around for over 100 years.


You expect me to be just as impressed with George Mason who has had a basketball program for 100 years to be just as impressed(or more so in your case) as I am with a program that did not even exist just a few years ago?


You are taking some of the final result and not giving that final result the credit during the process.

Yes they are very talented. Thats part of the reason im impressed. Just the fact that they were able to get these players in such a short period of time is part of the reason im impressed. You are downplaying there accomplishment without making that process part of the accomplishment.

With the way CBB talent is distributed these days, it is impressive, don't get me wrong but to make the Sweet 16 is one of the top five things you've ever seen in sports is over-the-top but that's just my opinion.

George Mason has a basketball program but what they get for recruits is horrible. I'm pretty sure in only 6 years, this FGC team has far better than GM ever had.

Again, George Mason beat a Tom Izzo team that had Shannon Brown. They beat a Roy Williams team with Hansbrough and Danny Green and a Calhoun team that had four I REPEAT four NBA draft picks in Hilton Armstrong, Marcus Williams, Rudy Gay and Josh Boone.

 

[Enfuego]

it was the first or second game of the year. not discounting it, but it wasnt late in the year when miami was rolling. miami wasnt even close to being ranked pre season.

Totally understand but Miami is still loaded with a great coaching staff.

 

[JohnnyMac]

Just making it to the 16 would make my top 5

LaSalle must be in your top 6!

 

[5teamparlay]

:lol:

LaSalle must be in your top 6!

:nohead:

 

[doubledeuce22]

wow, story keeps getting better. team had open tryouts before the season

http://twitpic.com/ce5jop

 

[Enfuego]

wow, story keeps getting better. team had open tryouts before the season

http://twitpic.com/ce5jop

Don't teams usually allow walk on's to try and make the team?

 

[doubledeuce22]

Don't teams usually allow walk on's to try and make the team?

to a point, but i doubt its literally an open tryout. i could be wrong.

 

[studmlb55]

LaSalle must be in your top 6!

Lay off of him...he might put you on ignore @)

 

[CHOPTALK]

What!?! You say congrats to them and that they have been through a lot in three years!

How would you know if you hadn't heard of them?

That was a joke thread in reference to one Justin Cruise made that day.
I copied his IU thread and made a carbon copy of his IU thread word for except for the FGC part.
That was the day I heard of them for the first time.

 

[CHOPTALK]

LaSalle must be in your top 6!

No I actually have them in my bracket in the sweet 16

 

[Enfuego]

to a point, but i doubt its literally an open tryout. i could be wrong.

It says on the flyer open tryout for walk-on hopefuls.

 

[studmlb55]

It says on the flyer open tryout for walk-on hopefuls.

Can you fucking read!

The dude is saying that teams allow walkons but very few D1 teams have open tryouts...

And you guys wonder why...hno:

 

[neverbend]

I heard the coach Andy Somethingor other made millions on Wall Street after playing ball for Johns Hopkins felt he made enough for 5 lifetimes and decided to make a second career doing something he really loves to do. On top of that married a top ier Vogue Model.
Someone with that resume helps.

 

[neverbend]

Fla Gulf Coast +550 in next game.

 

[Fishhead]

More childish reaction to the Big Fraud .................they win two games in a 5 on 5 competition and people get teary eyed..........................so hilarious that people pop a woody over this stuff.