National Recognition at last! - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Dec 10, 2005

National Recognition at last!

Date: Dec 10, 2005

By the way -- they have us ranked as the fourth worst team in the country.

Date: Dec 10, 2005

Ripper wrote:

By the way -- they have us ranked as the fourth worst team in the country.

I can hardly wait for the next USNews rankings to come out.

Date: Dec 10, 2005

Well, at least we can be proud to be ranked in the same poll that mentions Duke, Kentucky, UConn, the Oklahoma Sooners, Gonzaga, . . .

I'm not Lisa

Date: Dec 10, 2005

Something is amiss here. Sagarin has us ranked 305 out of 334. There are at least 29 other teams worse than USM. For now.

Date: Dec 10, 2005

I think that the ESPN poll is less "scientific" and more from the heart than the Sagarin rankings. Thus the difference?

Date: Dec 10, 2005

I'll accept that. After tonight, ESPN's "gut feeling" may be more precise than Sagarin. I still feel badly for the kids. This kind of situation ain't fun.

Date: Dec 10, 2005

Hey guys. How about we sell out our university to a bunch of car salemen for athletics.

Date: Dec 11, 2005

Solution: hire an Assistant to the President for Accreditation, Articulation, and Basketball......

Date: Dec 11, 2005

Rod_Sterling wrote:

Solution: hire an Assistant to the President for Accreditation, Articulation, and Basketball......

Is there enough money in the budget for the requisite resulting raise?

Date: Dec 14, 2005

The Bottom 10 is just some sports columnist trying to be funny. They once had a team's uniform on the list for being too ugly and have given honorable mentions to mascots in the past. However, usually the teams that make the list are there for sucking too much...

Sometimes, you see a team that is doing well make the list for one bad loss.

Date: Dec 14, 2005

And to clarify one point, most sports journalists despise ESPN for perpetuating far too many cheesy sports cliches (which should die a slow painful death if us sports journalists had our way) among America's youth, and for turning sports fans into mindless morons who now quote SportsCenter in interviews (people saying they oculd only succeed b/c of their teammates, if your team scored 54 points in a game, and you scored 45 of them, clearly you could have had any 4 schlubs on the court with you and still won the game).

Sorry for the rant, I'm one of those sports journalists who wants to puke every time Stuart Scott says BOO-YAH!