spidersal Posted March 17 Report Posted March 17 You have a good point, however basketball committees are not favorable to the SLC. They simply do not think that the teams that are not the winners are worthy of an invitation Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted March 20 Report Posted March 20 On 3/12/2025 at 10:00 PM, spidersal said: McNeese has a decent team, however they will be 1 and done in the tournament due to an extremely weak conference One and done huh. I guess ACC is a weak conference. Mr. Buddy Garrity and snakehead26 1 1 Quote
spidersal Posted March 20 Report Posted March 20 You are correct. Great win for MC Neese. They tried their best to blow it at the end, however I was wrong on 1 and done. Some teams from the ACC are not very strong. Face it, today Clemson had shooters about like A&M, not very good , but you are correct, I blew the call on this game. I am glad they won, however the SLC is still a very weak conference and why only the winner will get a bid for March Madness Quote
spidersal Posted March 20 Report Posted March 20 Remember that Lamar had a pretty good record and a good 2nd place finish in the SLC and didn’t even get a sniff to one of the Rinky Dink tournaments. The committee members do not like the SLC and you can rest assured they are not happy with this upset, I just hope Clemson doesn’t fire their coach over this loss like Texas is about to do to Terry! Quote
spidersal Posted March 22 Report Posted March 22 Good news is that McNeese made it to the 2nd round, bat news is they got beat pretty bad by Purdue! Quote
TxHoops Posted March 24 Report Posted March 24 On 3/22/2025 at 2:44 PM, spidersal said: Good news is that McNeese made it to the 2nd round, bat news is they got beat pretty bad by Purdue! So you’re saying the Southland Conference is one of only nine conferences with a team in the second round of the NCAA tournament? Cool! 5GallonBucket, bullets13, Mr. Buddy Garrity and 1 other 4 Quote
Separation Scientist Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 I am flipping channels on TV and see UIW playing Illinois St. in the CBI tourney. I don't get it, why wouldn't Lamar be in this? Lamar was clearly the #2 team in the SLC, I think Lamar should have been in the NIT. Why would the CBI pick the 7th place UIW team from the SLC? Quote
snakehead26 Posted March 26 Report Posted March 26 29 minutes ago, Separation Scientist said: I am flipping channels on TV and see UIW playing Illinois St. in the CBI tourney. I don't get it, why wouldn't Lamar be in this? Lamar was clearly the #2 team in the SLC, I think Lamar should have been in the NIT. Why would the CBI pick the 7th place UIW team from the SLC? You actually have to pay money to enter the CBI tournament so other than the little bit of exposure you get maybe it is not financially practicable. bullets13, Separation Scientist and TxHoops 3 Quote
TxHoops Posted Thursday at 01:52 AM Report Posted Thursday at 01:52 AM 15 hours ago, snakehead26 said: You actually have to pay money to enter the CBI tournament so other than the little bit of exposure you get maybe it is not financially practicable. This Quote
TxHoops Posted Thursday at 11:20 AM Report Posted Thursday at 11:20 AM On 3/26/2025 at 5:05 AM, Separation Scientist said: I am flipping channels on TV and see UIW playing Illinois St. in the CBI tourney. I don't get it, why wouldn't Lamar be in this? Lamar was clearly the #2 team in the SLC, I think Lamar should have been in the NIT. Why would the CBI pick the 7th place UIW team from the SLC? NIT at least used to give automatic bids to regular season conference champions (who obviously didn’t win their conference tournament and get an NCAA bid). They did away with that rule before last year’s tournament and this year added some automatic bids for power 5 conference non-NCAA qualifiers. In short, it has now just become a secondary top-tier conference tournament. If McNeese had lost in the SLC tournament, they MIGHT have gotten a bid (honestly as much to do with Will Wade, and maybe even more so, that manager who has gone viral) but the NIT will mostly be filled with very average to bad big conference schools. And as snakehead correctly stated, the other post-season tournaments are just money grabs. It is my understanding both the men’s and women’s teams turned down postseason bids this year, the women to the inaugural WNIT (which has the old men’s rule about regular season champs). My guess is the deciding factor on both was $$. Separation Scientist and Mr. Buddy Garrity 2 Quote
Separation Scientist Posted Thursday at 05:20 PM Report Posted Thursday at 05:20 PM I get it now, it just ticked me off to see Lamar not playing somewhere. Yeah the UIW game attendance was real bad, the gym was almost empty. TxHoops 1 Quote
TxHoops Posted Friday at 01:12 PM Report Posted Friday at 01:12 PM 19 hours ago, Separation Scientist said: I get it now, it just ticked me off to see Lamar not playing somewhere. Yeah the UIW game attendance was real bad, the gym was almost empty. I would have loved to have seen Lamar play in post season as well. The entry fee for the CBI is apparently a little under $30k but I’m guessing it’s probably at least that much in travel expenses per game. That team was playing really well at the end of the year though and would have been fun to see continue to play. Mr. Buddy Garrity and 5GallonBucket 2 Quote
bullets13 Posted Friday at 07:01 PM Report Posted Friday at 07:01 PM 5 hours ago, TxHoops said: I would have loved to have seen Lamar play in post season as well. The entry fee for the CBI is apparently a little under $30k but I’m guessing it’s probably at least that much in travel expenses per game. That team was playing really well at the end of the year though and would have been fun to see continue to play. maybe i'm wrong, but it just seems like a $100k investment into post season play doesn't sound like much when you're talking about a university the size of lamar. Both teams are trending up, and even a little extra exposure could go a long way. TxHoops 1 Quote
TxHoops Posted Saturday at 11:39 PM Report Posted Saturday at 11:39 PM On 3/13/2025 at 4:47 PM, TxHoops said: Give Brooks a half a mil per year to “recruit” like Will has and I bet his recruiting improves tremendously. I would say he’s recruited pretty damn well finding guys who can compete with little to no funds. I wayyyyy underestimate this. Try north of $2M and probably closer to $3M for McNeese’s NIL this past season. One of their players who redshirted and is transferring out got $200k (which is several times the amount of the entire Lamar NiL money). Will Wade can coach but a 7 figure payroll in the SLC is nuts. And apparently NC State has a massive NIL collective waiting for him. It’s all about it getting the dudes. Quote
spidersal Posted Sunday at 01:58 AM Report Posted Sunday at 01:58 AM Does not appear that the Lamar administration and athletic department wants to do that, so they will probably settle for 2nd again and another season of sitting at the house. Lamar’s men and women in Basketball, baseball, and softball simply choke when it comes to the post season tournament since the ncaa committees only will take the post season winner Lamar will continue to sit at the house, unless they figure out what it takes to win the tournament Quote
TxHoops Posted Sunday at 06:10 AM Report Posted Sunday at 06:10 AM 4 hours ago, spidersal said: Does not appear that the Lamar administration and athletic department wants to do that, so they will probably settle for 2nd again and another season of sitting at the house. Lamar’s men and women in Basketball, baseball, and softball simply choke when it comes to the post season tournament since the ncaa committees only will take the post season winner Lamar will continue to sit at the house, unless they figure out what it takes to win the tournament They don’t want donors to donate 2 to 3 million dollars per year for the basketball team? They are just turning those donations down? You really have no clue how it works, do you? Quote
spidersal Posted Sunday at 12:31 PM Report Posted Sunday at 12:31 PM Doesn’t matter how it happens Lamar basketball will probably never get back to playing like they did under Tubbs and Foster Quote
AggiesAreWe Posted Sunday at 12:41 PM Report Posted Sunday at 12:41 PM 6 hours ago, TxHoops said: They don’t want donors to donate 2 to 3 million dollars per year for the basketball team? They are just turning those donations down? You really have no clue how it works, do you? He needs Lamar athletics to be bad. Otherwise, what would he do with himself? He clearly doesn't understand or maybe chooses to not understand in order to hate. TxHoops, BEARCPA and Mr. Buddy Garrity 2 1 Quote
TxHoops Posted Sunday at 01:24 PM Report Posted Sunday at 01:24 PM 41 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said: He needs Lamar athletics to be bad. Otherwise, what would he do with himself? He clearly doesn't understand or maybe chooses to not understand in order to hate. Just very odd behavior. Unless he is just trolling in which case spending time trolling Lamar athletics is also very odd. Mr. Buddy Garrity and AggiesAreWe 2 Quote
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