Sweet 16 Motherfucker!

[buff2.0]

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[Doc Hogaday]

Somebody remind me, how is Muss and the mighty USC Trojans doing in the tourney?

Hey now, show some class. Don't have sour grapes and shit on your old coach like Kentucky does.

LOL, j/k. Fuck Muss.

[vegashog]

yeah, muss will be okay. looks like some of that socal money is making its way into his program.

[Sus-Scrofa]

Hey now, show some class. Don't have sour grapes and shit on your old coach like Kentucky does.

LOL, j/k. Fuck Muss.

Nah, Muss righted the ship.  He will always get credit for that.

[Son of Spam]

Barkley said something the other day that gave me hope. He said there are 4 teams in the tourney with a lot of big men. But, he said, if a team has a point guard that can control the floor, score, and not turn the ball over, they have a good chance to beat these teams. We have that. I don't know if he was referencing us, but it sure sounded like it.

[Sus-Scrofa]

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Saturday with our injuries.

I feel like that hasn't received the attention it should from the talking heads.

[Barton Fink]

Nah, Muss righted the ship.  He will always get credit for that.

Agree. However, that '23 team was better than their record. I think he had 1 foot out the door. He does deserve to eat some shit for that.

[Doc Hogaday]

Nah, Muss righted the ship.  He will always get credit for that.

Oh, certainly. I'll be forever grateful for that, and there's no way we ever get Cal w/out where he brought us back to. But still, he didn't have to handle his last season here the way he did. You can appreciate someone and still not like them.

I had several people over the years that worked for me and I appreciated the job they did while on the clock, but personally did not care for them and would never have spent time socially w/ them except for the annual Christmas party.

[vegashog]

Agree. However, that '23 team was better than their record. I think he had 1 foot out the door. He does deserve to eat some shit for that.

i look at that roster and outside of battle and mark, to me it was shit. mahki mitchell 3rd in scoring? menifield was a huge reach, graham never panned out, and then el ellis, donijay harris, davenport, and fall were next to worthless.

rumor was the boosters had had enough of muss. no interaction with them and when he did manage to find the time he was pretty much an asshole. his attitude later in the season did have an effect on the team for sure, but in retrospect, that transfer class overall was pretty bad.

[Barton Fink]

It wasn't an elite roster but ut wasn't as bad as the results. Really needed a PG.

[BASS]

So we are definitely playing Thursday, but we don't know what time.

1st game Thursday tips off at 6:10 Central, I'm guessing since we're on the West Coast, it won't be our region. I'm guessing we'll either be the 7:30 game (1st in San Jose) or the 9:45 game.

[Doc Hogaday]

Part of Muss's problem his last year was he didn't use the early non-conference schedule to figure out his rotations. There was some talent there, but a guy might not play an entire game, play 30+ minutes the next, then have 3 minutes the next. There was no consistency. That doesn't make the players bad players, it makes Muss a bad coach. That year was 100% on him.

Letting Devo come and go as he pleased for 2 years didn't help either.

[animal]

I think he was butt hurt about the lack of support for NIL knowing it was gonna take deeper pockets and evidently rubbed some big wigs the wrong way. That might have been before or after lifting his skirt. 

Either way Cal came in with the full support of Tyson and didn't stop there he worked the big donors. Fairly early in the season it seemed Muss had checked out and there were already discussions happening between Cal and Tyson that likely progressed. 

The only thing I'm confident of is our AD had little or nothing to do with any of it.

[vegashog]

team landed in sacramento a little while ago.

[Show-Me Hog]

team landed in sacramento a little while ago.

Good thing Spring Break is this week.

[Thin Red Swine]

5 out of the last 6 years

And 5 of the last 31.

🙊

Not trying to be an ass, because I do believe we're going to keep being a regular presence there again.

[Pig Benis]

Got the 8:45 time slot again and we're 8.5 point underdogs. I'm already trying to convince myself that we'll beat them.

[jdcatty]

Got the 8:45 time slot again and we're 8.5 point underdogs. I'm already trying to convince myself that we'll beat them.

I'm half way there.  Already convinced myself that Arizona isn't as good as their reputation.

[Sus-Scrofa]

I think we destroy them.  



Then there'll be some soul crushing disaster in the next round.

[The Whyte Boar]

Arizona looked beatable last night.  This year is weird.  I watched AZ put a beatdown on Bama.  No one who watched Florida beat us would have thought they could lose to Iowa.  But they did and AZ didn't look overwhelming last night.