Meltdown warning!!!!

[SaintLouBrave22]

I wouldn't go that far! Drake won the conference a couple years ago. Look at them now.

Drake has a new coach....

One who didn't exactly have the ability recruiting/floor game and otherwise that the previous one did...you want to check on that, see what Providence did since he took over there already.

We should only be so lucky...they won a Conference Championship and a Tournament Championship with him before he left.

We have yet to win either....its now Year 8!

Heck, we've never even finished 3rd!

Should it make you feel better that into Year 8 with the current coach we're picked for 6th and look every bit that right now?


Once again, Year 8!

[versace4pres]

Just saying.....we were picked 6th and after two key injuries, I believe that's what we look like. Yes....I believe there are 4 Valley teams perfectly capable of finishing worse that us. illinois state was picked to finish 3rd. I'm just saying, if that's the Valley's 3rd best team then this conference deserves whatever label the media puts on us. I personally believe there will be plenty of "misery" to keep everyone company in the Valley this season.

And where was Drake picked to finish in 2007, and UNI in 2008? Opinions, plain and simple. And no, the conference does not deserve that label. The Pac 10 is brutal this year, should we call them midmajor. Maybe it's alright with you, but not for me. Did you feel like a midmajor when we took down high and mighty Illinois? It floors me when our own fans buy into this garbage. Mediocrity is a curse, accepting it is worse.

[SaintLouBrave22]

Mediocrity is a curse, accepting it is worse.

Very well said sir!

[CubbieBear]

Yeah....we'll leave that to the isu board to make themselves feel better about their blowout loss. I believe they were actually expected to be good while we were picked to finish in the bottom half of the conference and it looks like we are who they thought we were.

I have the PJS basketball pre-season section, and it picked us 3rd...ISU 5th. What a roller coaster we seem to be on...after beating Illanoy, I had hopes for us to be good...and now, as bad as we are playing, 5th would be about right for us and back to a crappy tournament that I refuse to attend I just hope we finish above ISU this year, and they don't look to be any better than 5th to me