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Step Away from the Ledge

Spanky said:
Hammer....there are many followers of Christ in the countries you mention. If you are in Billings or if I come to Butte, I can better discuss/ show you more. Have you been to the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte..especially during Easter?
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No the buddhists and muslims far outnumber christians. I'm just wondering why your god is real and theirs isn't?

Yes I have been in the serbian church. Very impressive artwork. No I don't think there is anything devine about it, but it's pretty cool to look at. I think they did all the paintings like 10 or 15 years ago?
 
Among the more notable solutions given by egrizers in response to UM's one and done with Wisconsin were the following: (1) manipulate the brackets to somehow favor the Griz (2) make our problems vanish with one "6'10" 280 pound guy" (3) schedule 2 or more decent OCC games each season (4) forget it because we'd "need $50 million to move out of the BSC" and (5) basketball needs to take "Baby steps."

First off, the editor of that claim needs to tell me how ANY program could spend that much on basketball. Impossible! And as far as (5) I'm hard pressed to know what Jim O'Day would consider as Baby Steps. However, all of these fixes miss the most obvious point...the Griz would still be playing 16 or more games in one of America's suckiest basketball conferences. None of these answer the inescapable point that not even a manipulated bracket will ever save UM from a 15 or 16 seed in which one and done will be always be a foregone conclusion.

Furthermore, one big guy or a pair of OCC games will have zero impact. The BSC is just too big of an albatross around the neck of UM to be neutralized with any gimmickry or cosmetic manipulating.
 
Yes, the Christians are in the minority in those countries. I believe in The Holy Trinity..Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Since you ask.. I have seen a weeping icon of the Virgin Mary and was annointed with her tears. It was in Chicago and a cabdriver went in the church with me. He was a total non-believer and commented that there was probably a hose behind the icon. As soon as we approached the alter and he saw the Virgin Mary weeping, he immediately dropped to his knees. I can't convince you or anyone else, Hammer, but that is only one instance of my experience. By the way, I'm not holier than thou and I will probably get flak as a result of this post. So be it.
 
RE:
"Myth #1: Wisconsin beat down is an indication that we need to schedule tougher non-conference games. We scheduled and played Colorado State (NCAA), Long Beach State (NCAA), Nevada (NIT), Utah Valley (CIT) and Oregon State (Pac 12). Those games prepared us for the run we made through conference. We don’t play those games, and we don’t go 15-1 in conference, and we sure as heck don’t get a 13 seed.
The scheduling issue is a white herring. The only time it matters to be honest is when we are looking at seeds in the NCAA tournament. Moreover, until we realize that we won’t be nationally ranked but once in a blue moon, who we schedule out of conference isn’t going to mean much. Yet we obsess over it because somehow a 24 point loss to a Big 10 team somehow indicates something else entirely. We are a team, from a one bid regionally isolated conference, that despite record would rarely command a seed higher than a #12"

I am not so sure it is a myth, I respectfully disagree..

St. Mary's wins WCC title outright this year. Also beat Zags in WCC tournament and 2 for 3 against Zags this season. Zags get in dance at a #7 and so does St. Mary's (7) with a better season record. Why? it is who Gonzaga played. Xavier, Michigan State, Illinois, Arizona, Notre Dame, WSU hardly compare to Long Beach State, Nevada, Utah Valley. Getting those teams to play you is the challenge. It does matter for all kinds of reasons, not just seeding. Media exposure (for recruiting), national presence and other reasons.
 
RE:
"Myth #1: Wisconsin beat down is an indication that we need to schedule tougher non-conference games. We scheduled and played Colorado State (NCAA), Long Beach State (NCAA), Nevada (NIT), Utah Valley (CIT) and Oregon State (Pac 12). Those games prepared us for the run we made through conference. We don’t play those games, and we don’t go 15-1 in conference, and we sure as heck don’t get a 13 seed.
The scheduling issue is a white herring. The only time it matters to be honest is when we are looking at seeds in the NCAA tournament. Moreover, until we realize that we won’t be nationally ranked but once in a blue moon, who we schedule out of conference isn’t going to mean much. Yet we obsess over it because somehow a 24 point loss to a Big 10 team somehow indicates something else entirely. We are a team, from a one bid regionally isolated conference, that despite record would rarely command a seed higher than a #12"

I am not so sure it is a myth, I respectfully disagree..

St. Mary's wins WCC title outright this year. Also beat Zags in WCC tournament and 2 for 3 against Zags this season. Zags get in dance at a #7 and so does St. Mary's (7) with a better season record. Why? it is who Gonzaga played. Xavier, Michigan State, Illinois, Arizona, Notre Dame, WSU hardly compare to Long Beach State, Nevada, Utah Valley. Getting those teams to play you is the challenge. It does matter for all kinds of reasons, not just seeding. Media exposure (for recruiting), national presence and other reasons.
 
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