Goat Holder
05-21-2014, 11:48 AM
Can we put this argument to bed? At the VERY LEAST, the host sites aren't established yet. The PAC-12 is still playing their regular season this week with no tournament, so tell me again how the hosts can already be chosen? They can't.
If we want to have a logical discussion as to why we are or aren't hosting, you must first move past the above point. It matters. Maybe not to Florida who is a national seed and can't play their way out of it, but to the rest of us.
The reason why we likely aren't hosting, is that our resume may not stack up AFTER THE TOURNAMENT to the others. We've got some bad losses. You can point to 2012, when our record was 34-21 (16-14) vs. 35-20 (18-12) this year before the SEC tournament. Even if we go 5-0 this week we are still just 40-20. All the other potential hosting teams already have 40 wins, BEFORE the tournament, excluding Florida (and they don't matter anyway because their RPI is 2).
Our RPI is just simply too low. Losing to Memphis, Jax State, LSU Saturday, Alabama Sunday and Tennessee Friday killed our hosting. In every single one of those games, we can legitimately say we bumbled around the gave them the game on dipshit errors. Yeah Holy Cross/UCSB/Arizona hurt, but they just beat us. In the 5 games I mentioned, we beat ourselves. We'd have been 40-15 (21-9), SEC Champions and probably been a national seed.
Here's to hoping the RPI really does jump this week, because it would matter.
If we want to have a logical discussion as to why we are or aren't hosting, you must first move past the above point. It matters. Maybe not to Florida who is a national seed and can't play their way out of it, but to the rest of us.
The reason why we likely aren't hosting, is that our resume may not stack up AFTER THE TOURNAMENT to the others. We've got some bad losses. You can point to 2012, when our record was 34-21 (16-14) vs. 35-20 (18-12) this year before the SEC tournament. Even if we go 5-0 this week we are still just 40-20. All the other potential hosting teams already have 40 wins, BEFORE the tournament, excluding Florida (and they don't matter anyway because their RPI is 2).
Our RPI is just simply too low. Losing to Memphis, Jax State, LSU Saturday, Alabama Sunday and Tennessee Friday killed our hosting. In every single one of those games, we can legitimately say we bumbled around the gave them the game on dipshit errors. Yeah Holy Cross/UCSB/Arizona hurt, but they just beat us. In the 5 games I mentioned, we beat ourselves. We'd have been 40-15 (21-9), SEC Champions and probably been a national seed.
Here's to hoping the RPI really does jump this week, because it would matter.