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By Ricky

February 24, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this

The SEC will get 6 teams in and is probably the 2nd best coference from top to bottom in the country. The ACC has one powerhouse and two pretty good teams in UNC and NC State, but are mediocore at best after that. The Big 12 has two good teams in Texas and Kansas and not much after that. PAC-10 is historically weak. The Big 10 is pretty tough with Iowa, Mich St, and Illinois all being pretty good. But the SEC from top to bottom is probably the 2nd toughest conference right now

By brewdawg

February 24, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this

Look, I know this sounds crazy, but I think the dawgs still have a shot at the big dance. They should win 2 of our last 3 games in the sec. Is their any chance theycan shock fla? If so, does 8-8 in conference lets UGA dance? How many wins would our dawgs need in the sec tournament to get to the dance if 8-8 happens? Let’s not give up hope just yet on the big dance, even though I know fellow bloggers are gonna rip me on this one.

By brewdawg

February 24, 2006 04:28 PM | Link to this

and rip me on my stupid grammatical errors. yikes

By desertdawg

February 24, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

The Auburn game will come back to haunt us most likely—this team has made tremendous strides after the train wreck last year. The NIT would be a heck of an accomplishmnet and to even be talking about the Big Dance in late Feb is incredible. My question is how come Bama is getting so much love—we split with them and they are only 15-10 and everyone has them dancing. GO DAWGS

By brewdawg

February 24, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this

we didn’t split with bama, we SWEPT them. Of course we only played them once but…

By geechee

February 24, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

“The NIT would be a heck of an accomplishmnet and to even be talking about the Big Dance in late Feb is incredible.”

After the what this team has been through the last few years with Harrick debacle, desertdawg’s post pretty well sums it up as far as I’m concerned.

By desertdawg

February 24, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this

my bad brewdawg—I like sweep better !!

By McDonoughDawg

February 24, 2006 05:47 PM | Link to this

What about GT? I know they are in the ACC, but I was told over & over how great their Coach was. How he was building a dynasty. What a joke of a team they have this year.

By Roy Kramer

February 24, 2006 06:31 PM | Link to this

If the SEC is the second best basketball conference, then the ACC must have been the best football conference this year.

By geechee

February 24, 2006 06:49 PM | Link to this

WHO’S NO. 1?

Georgia has the most teams ranked No. 1 nationally in sports that are in season. The top schools for top teams:

• Georgia: 4 (Men’s golf, men’s tennis, women’s gymnastics, women’s swimming)

• Duke: 3 (Men’s basketball, women’s basketball, women’s golf)

• Stanford: 2 (Men’s swimming, women’s tennis)

Where are all the lizards who come here to tell us how the UF athletic program is easily rated #1 in the country and how UGA isn’t even close. I guess they are still crying from their UT spanking.

By northwestDAWG

February 24, 2006 09:59 PM | Link to this

defense? OK, but defense doesn’t get you to the ‘Dance. You’ve got to be able to score. Talking about that team I watched beat So. Carolina and the same team lost to AU. We’re all pipe dreaming to think they’ll make it to the ‘Dance. Nothing wrong with dreaming, wishing and hoping but unless something changes in a hurry, they may make the NIT but that’s all. Still, what a turn around from last year! Predicition: the SEC will have no more than 5 teams Dancing and maybe only 4. It’s a repeat of FB. These days you’ve got to have offense big time to play with the top teams. Anyone see the articule about DF’s dress? Man dresses to the 9’s, looks good and so does the team. I just wish he had a little more R&B to wear but the team and coach make the school look good.

By BuLLdawg

February 25, 2006 01:07 AM | Link to this

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Chip Towers,

Good comments. I am not impressed by the Strength of Schedule of the Big East Men’s Basketball Opponents.

NCAA OFFICIAL STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE :

More than half of the SEC play in fact tough strength of schedules. This is quite different from other conferences in this sport, as it is in all sports, that the SEC plays tougher Strength of Schedules.

It is pretty hard for most fans to keep up with who is in the Big East Conference and who is not.

In one sport, but not in others.

How crazy is a Conference like that ?

Perhaps you are confused yourself this season in this men’s basketball sport, Chip Towers who indeed is in the Big East ?

I ask this question because in my opinion the Big Ten is the Number 1 Men’s Basketball Conference according to the Official NCAA RPI Ratings released every Thursday by The NCAA itself to the AJC, and yet not once has the AJC printed it.

Number 2 is Big East.

Number 3 is SEC.

Those are the Top 3 Conferences, and while you write away for a newspaper that considers its goal in life to prop up the ACC, I will have everyone note what your short blog here does not say.

Did anyone notice that the ACC is that down this season in men’s basketball ?

The ACC is not according to the Official NCAA RPI the Number 1, Number 2 or Number 3 conference in men’s basketball.

Not that any reader of the AJC only daily would know.

Because the AJC refuses to print to the Official NCAA RPI released to the AJC by the NCAA directly.

And, why is that ?

Because the AJC would prefer as its mantra to state that a team like Georgia Tech of the Mighty ACC Men’s Basketball Conference still has a shot to get into the NIT having Lost 11 of their last 12 games now mind you.

Here are the Big East Teams in Men’s Basketball this year with their SOS listed :

Villanova Connecticut NUMBER 38 SOS Pittsburgh NUMBER 46 SOS West Virginia Number 29 SOS Georgetown 7 Losses Number 52 SOS

Marquette Number 17 SOS only reason in NCAA Syracuse Number 11 SOS only reason in NCAA

Seton Hall 9 Losses Number 34 SOS Cincinnati DOUBLE DIGIT LOSSES ALREADY 10

Louisville 9 Losses Number 49 SOS Providence NOT WINNING RECORD Rutgers 12 Losses Number 35 SOS St. John’s LOSING RECORD NUMBER 47 SOS Notre Dame 11 Losses Number 35 SOS DePaul LOSING RECORD 4 GAMES UNDER .500 South Florida 20 LOSSES NUMBER 83 SOS

Of those, 5 are legitimate.

7 Big East Teams cannot beat their way out of a wet paper bag.

7, mind you.

2 more Big East Teams, Seton Hall and Cincinnati would not be teams that anyone would consider for the NCAA Tournament were it not for beating up on 7 Big East Teams who are not worth a flip.

2 more Marquette and Syracuse are on the Bubble, which they would not be in the SEC but below the Bubble.

What does this leave you with Chip Towers?

11 Big East Teams who are no bloody good.

That’s the reality of your so-called Number 1 Men’s Basketball Conference this season Mr. Chip Towers.

Note everyone that Chip puts this in a blog online that he doesn’t have the Permission to put in the AJC newspaper.

That the ACC is not the best or second best Men’s Basketball Conference.

By the way, the ACC is not the 3rd best Men’s Basketball Conference this season either.

How can 11 Big East Men’s Basketball Teams not be worth a flip and they are the Number 1 Men’s Basketball Conference by a sportswriter of the AJC who has yet to print online or in the printed AJC the Official NCAA RPI released every Thursday ?

The answer to that my friends, is that the Big East Cannot Be the Number 1 Men’s Basketball Conference this season, and is not according to the NCAA Official RPI.

Here is a URL Link for you Mr. Chip Towers for you to get a clue about that which you talk here only online or in the printed paper, where you will find the Official NCAA RPI : http://www.CollegeRPI.com

Try reading it.

And, come back and tell me that the Big East is the Number 1 Men’s Basketball Conference ?

The Big East is a mismatch of rotating teams in every sport that say, oh, I’m in the Big East in football but not men’s basketball. Oh, I’m an independent in football but haven’t won a bowl game any of the last 10 in a row, but I’m in the Big East in Men’s Basketball, ain’t we great ?

How can you have a conversation about “CONFERENCES” Chip Towers, and not address this point pray tell ?

By BuLLdawg

February 25, 2006 01:26 AM | Link to this

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And, JJ Reddick doesn’t play any defense, as none of the flops in the NBA from Duke.

By hoops dawg

February 25, 2006 02:18 AM | Link to this

BigEast: #1 They have by far the most true contenders to win it all (4-5 teams). Plus they have the strongest “middle-class” of all conferences making the Big East schedule intense on every given night.

Big 10: #2 Illinois and Michigan St again have the players and coaching to make it to the final four. The middle of the conference is strong with the well coached and scrappy Iowa, and talent rich Indiana…both could make big runs in the tourney if they catch fire.

SEC: #3 Tennessee is a legit final 4 contender, but there is a sharp fall-off after that. The other 5 teams that are probably in will be hard pressed to make it past the first two rounds.

ACC: #4 Duke is obviously a legit Final 4 contender, NC State could make a Sweet16 run again. The other 2 qualifying teams will be hard pressed to win their 1st and 2nd round games.

March Madness, its coming…

By geechee

February 25, 2006 04:14 AM | Link to this

Damn BuLLdawg, we have a ways to go but, I am looking forward to talking football with you.

By BuLLdawg

February 25, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

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Yes, it should be good geechee. But, it isn’t as long as you think now, as Spring Practice starts up in less than a week now, the Preseason Magazines are about to start hitting, the early ones anyway, and we begin now to pick our Quarterback among the best 4 on any team in the nation. And, you probably have already talked with me about football online, as I have been at it online on the Internet now since 1977 on every board there is was or is.

I would like to comment on the hoops dawg as well. I think that is a great post.

As far as it goes, anyway. It talks of the top of the conferences, but it totally ignores my point all together at the bottom of the conferences, in that the Big East has eleven (11) teams in this sport who cannot beat their way out of a wet paper bag.

You cannot hoops dawg totally ignore my point on the 11 bottom feeders of a “Conference” that really doesn’t exist except to have 5 good teams.

Also, North Carolina State is not a real contender.

Furthermore hoops dawg how can you ignore the Official RPI Ratings released each Thursday by The NCAA ?

Because the AJC doesn’t print them ?

You do realize of course, that that is all the NCAA really uses to seed the NCAA Tournament and the NIT Tourney too hoops dawg That is the NCAA Official RPI Rating released each Thursday ?

NCAA Official RPI Ratings show clearly that the Big Ten (11) is the Number 1 Men’s Basketball Conference and that the Big East is NOT.

The ACC only has one team.

And, they play no defense.

The Big Ten has 10 teams playing in the Post Season.

That is a far cry from the Big East “Conference” having 11 teams that are no bloody good whatsoever.

And, thus the Official NCAA RPI Ratings each Thursday shows that the Big Ten is far and away a better Conference than is the Big East “Conference.”

In the second place, a “CONFERENCE” is a Conference, or it is NOT.

In the case of the Big East, that is not a conference.

And, in the 1st place, there are 11 Big East teams who are not any good.

Not according to the NCAA Official RPI Ratings.

The only team in the Big Ten not going to the Post Season NCAA or NIT is Purdue.

In the Big East however, and this is what you do not address that is all I did address hoops dawg The Big East has South Florida not playing in any NIT or NCAA Tourney, DePaul also, St. Johns who cannot play in either as well, Providence who cannot too, and frankly Rutgers and Notre Dame both face the real possibility of not making the NIT.

If you are going to let teams like Notre Dame and Rutgers play in the NIT, then you have to admit the entire SEC East, for example - all of them.

The Big East just has too many teams at the bottom of the conference for everyone to beat (11 teams at the bottom) to allow a team with a 4-9 “conference” record to play in the Post Season Tournaments.

Try addressing the bottom teams in the Big East as I did that you reply to without the first word on them, just the Top 5 teams I had already detailed when I posted about the bottom of the Big East being a whole slew of poor teams.

And, why no one but I saying that these teams are NOT REALLY IN THE BIG EAST to begin with ?

By BuLLdawg

February 25, 2006 09:16 AM | Link to this

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When is the NCAA going to rule that if you are in a Conference, then you have to play in all the Conference’s sports, all 20 that Conference competes in ?

Else wise, let’s say that Intramural Vandy doesn’t play in the Southeastern Conference in Football, Kentucky too, and Mississippi State.

Back to my point about North Carolina State and The DOWN ACC in Men’s Basketball This Season.

How in the blazing heck does a “Contender” lose to Georgia Bloody Tech, as North Carolina State just did a week and a half ago ?

Have you looked at North Carolina State’s Strength of Schedule ?

Official NCAA Strength of Schedule for North Carolina State shows that they have played Number 61 SOS.

Good Gracious.

Details :

Number 280 Stetson. .

Number 327 The Citadel. .

Number 248 Delaware. .

Number 316 VMI. .

Number 85 Notre Shame. .

Number 243 Appalachian State. .

Number 208 UNC Asheville. .

Number 66 Miami Florida beat in 2 OT. .

Number 256 New Hampshire. .

Number 267 UNC Greenville. .

Number 141 Georgia Tech LOST TO. .

Number 105 RPI Weak Forest. .

Number 51 RPI Seton Bloody Hall, they Lost to too. .

Number 75 RPI Climpson Farmers beat in 2 OT. .

Number 60 RPI Virginia they beat by 2 points in Raleigh. .

Number 49 RPI Maryland beat by 4 at home. .

Number 58 RPI FSU.

Number 121 RPI Virginia Tech.

Good Heavens.

Does anyone want to try to defend that schedule of North Carolina State, please?

Step right up, I cannot wait to hear that North Carolina State is a “Contender.”

By BuLLdawg

February 25, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this

NC State will be the biggest post season flop this season, as they already are in my eyes, having studied it before I state that this is a Sweet 16 Contender. Junk sir, sorry.

By Cager

February 25, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

You $EC dolts get dumber every year. Have you looked at the latest RPI? You can question the weight of it all you want, but you’re currently sucking wind in 4th place. Let’s wait until touney time and find out how things play out. This soothesayer says vastly overated LSux, Uf and big yellow will choke hard. Rounding out the gang — are you kidding me — Ark, Bama and UK???? UK will probably make the most noise. What a black mark to the conference when UK has more $ec champiosnhips than the rest of the conference COMBINED. And those schisters cheated for the majority of them!!Ta Ta!!!

P.S. — Bulldawg…thanks for the dissertation but who cares. UGa is a not a factor here…

All the venom/bravado

By geechee

February 25, 2006 04:06 PM | Link to this

Cager, what the heck is “schisters”? When you run out of words, do you just start making some up or do you simply use words that you don’t know how to spell nor know the meaning of?

By geechee

February 25, 2006 07:18 PM | Link to this

Well, so much for that, At least we won’t have to worry about these things anymore this season.I’m not sure exactly what happened living so far away from GA but, I saw we went into halftime with a five point lead and came out of halftime and were quickly outscored 18-2 and then it seemed it only got worse from there. How did the team implode like that from one half to the other and so late in the season with some kind of post season hopes in mind?

By Cager

February 25, 2006 08:08 PM | Link to this

Sorry for the misnomer, Geechee…let me spell it out for you literally and figuratively:

SHYSTER — Slang An unethical, unscrupulous practitioner, especially of law.

N-I-T (maybe)

By geechee

February 25, 2006 09:44 PM | Link to this

Cager, I know exactly what shyster means and I am glad you decided to look it up but, you could have simply said in your last post “sorry, I’m using words which I do not know how to spell” instead of trying to blame me for not being able to read your very small mind.