I've always been a Pollard fan, but I'm thinking I should not listen to him this afternoon because he's gonna dig in on his ridiculous point about the importance of noncon SOS, and I'm going to get even angrier.
Jamie Pollard on KXNO today
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I'm sensing a lot of you need a vacation.
We’ll see if JP has the discipline to just move on from the seeding ‘controversy’ after hearing critiques from Cyclone fans.
Idk if I believe JP when he says that the coaching staff didn’t know if Iowa state would get to the postseason after our loses to Texas AM and Virginia Tech. I would bet they have the confidence they can make it every year.
being a top 68 team should be every year
Agree. Even if they did, I don’t think they would want that info broadcast by the AD even after the season is over. Hopefully the players ignore what JP said.
We'll likely miss occasionally. All but the best do. But when roughly 35 power conference teams will make it in any given year, when you remove the programs that are just continually garbage and rarely make it, it should be considered 'missing expectations' any year the tournament is missed for most self-respecting basketball programs.
I didn’t see anyone mention this but JP did say that Iowa State will host a home game for the big 12 - Big East challenge. He also expects it to be a good opponent.
Didn't listen. Shocked that they could pull away from celebrating Iowa wbb to give JP an whole hour.
JP only got 30 minutes.... remove the commercials and it was closer to 20 minutes.
Not sure what is wrong with JP's statement. Feel like it's a compliment and expresses how much this team and group of players improved after going 1-2 in the ESPN Tournament.
The reality is it takes Big12 wins to get into the NCAA Tournament. This year eight Big12 teams made the NCAA Tournament. OU was 12-1 and ranked #11 coming out of the non-con schedule, but after going 8-10 in Big12 play and losing their initial Big12 Tournament game they got left out of the NCAA's.
After the ESPN Tournament, I feel a lot of Clone fans questioned if we could go 9-9 in Big12 games.
This. I've made it a point to not listen to any sports radio this week. Or next. The kxno station vacation has been refreshing.
Not really. Asked how CyTown would stay viable outside of major events - he mentioned the medical facility that is expected to have 1,000+ doctors/patients each day. Mentioned the amphitheatre, holiday/farmers market type events.
When asked if we'll schedule tougher non-con opponents for basketball he said we only have 6 non-con games outside of Iowa, Big East Challenge, and Maui, and that all 6 of those will be buy games against lessor opponents. I don't see a problem with that as that should be enough to have a better non-con SOS.
Said while we luckily didn't get chosen to have any conference games on Thurs/Fri this season, we should expect to at some point within the next few years.
Also mentioned we will go to 20 conference games next year. Is that the first confirmation we've had of that?
Most people need to take off work & or school (2 days if Thurs and they want to tailgate or have to travel). Interferes with HS football/sports. I'd guess those games typically have lower attendance and/or ticket prices because of these & other reasons I'm probably not thinking about.
Ah i read this as basketball games. My mistake.
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