OT: NIT Game Between LSU-ULL Gets Extremely Salty
The NIT game between LSU and Louisiana apparently got extremely salty, including Will Wade calling late timeouts with a lead. Story gets into it further but it looks like it comes down to LSU refusing to schedule this one particular in-state school. Love it when stuff gets bitter like this, elsewhere. I recall something similar recently between Chris Mack and Mick Cronin.
a little Tobasco wouldn't fix.
This is bad for viewers' blood pressure
is a lot of shit for the ULL coach to talk to get their ass handed to them in the game.
Red coat.
“They don’t get to play us very often, so I thought they should enjoy it.”
Pardon me while I stand to applaud.
(Read the article)
burn it to the ground!
Fellow proctologist, eh?
HAHAHAHAAAA!!! That was beautiful!! I'm not a fan of LSU, but I have to give thier coach credit here. The ULL coach looks like an idiot - if one of his players had said that pre-game, that kid would have been read the riot act...
That's awesome. Sports, man.
Uhh am I the only one who thinks this is stupid? They're fighting over NIT seeding?
That LSU coach could write for MGoBlog.
“A lot of times you get into the NIT, and the SEC teams that finished tied for ninth – whatever they did – are not very interested in playing at this stage of the year. But they’ll be interested, because it’s a big step for them. They’ve not been very good. We’ve had a better RPI and team than them the last couple of years in the state.”
HA! I love it, and it got better as the article went on too.
Being at this game could have been extremely entertaining.
It usually starts when the Tiger players begin winking, striking poses and saying "Ooooh La La!" at the U La-La bench...
they played zero in-state teams and one true road game.
That kind of OOC schedule isn't that unusual amongst Power 5 teams, of course.
I will admit ... it annoys me when the big schools can't/won't play in-state teams in basketball OOC. Your schedule doesn't need to exclusively be games like that - but teams should make an effort to play a couple. Michigan played Detroit and CMU --- LSU can afford to play a ULL and another of the 10-ish D-1 teams in the state. ULL was actually good this year - they would have helped LSU's RPI.
I guess I sort of sympathize with the U-La-La coach on this one.
Legitimate question: Why? Personally, I don't care if we play any in-state OOC teams. Why does it matter?
Let the local in-states have their shot. And even if they win: the Power school is STILL the "King of the Hill" in the long-term.
It should help with attendance too. LSU basketball isn't selling out most nights. The ULL fans which would show up for an OOC game would bring the attendance number larger vs. LSU's game with, say, UNC-Wilmington.
I would reserve it to the locals who generally have middle-to-above RPIs. If someone is an RPI anchor (say, Nicholls State for LSU), don't schedule those folk.
If you have a decent team and are ducking them (Kansas v Wichita State) it is different than M playing Eastern every year in a game nobody wants to see.
Kansas and K-State not playing Wichita State --- at this point, that's ridiculous.
K-State even goes so far as to schedule an annual game in Wichita (the same arena as the upcoming U-M game), but it's always against someone other than the Shockers (Tulsa this year).