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Date Posted: 18:35:26 03/12/09 Thu
you guys get way too bent out of shape. what i say is mostly in good fun to start. then when i am attacked, i post facts to prove my point with a lil ball busting and you guys get all "he's a troll" on me when you don't have any facts to back up your points...all in all, i don't have a problem with marist. i think it is an excellent school with an excellent bball program (both wbb and mbb). both programs have always seemed to do things the right way by recruiting good student-athletes, etc. i also think highly of the marist fans. they are loyal and for the most part intelligent (had to get one jab in). for the most part i only post messages when i see posts that are completely untrue. the posts saying "the maac wants siena to win" are funny to me because the maac could give two sh*ts about siena. for one, siena, like marist, is not a founding member of the maac, so their clout with the maac higher-ups is not what you think it is. second, the maac wants the best team to win the championship (unless the situation explained later occurs). if that is marist, it is marist. if it is siena, it is siena. they want the best team in the ncaa's because it is the way they can make more $$$ (which is the only thing the maac cares about, trust me). when the tourney is in albany, is ensor hoping siena sticks around to monday? of course. does that make ensor a siena fan? absolutely not. he doesn't want siena in the ncaa's unless they are the best team. he is only thinking about the $$$ he gets if their fans keep coming back. i am sure he feels the same way about fairfield when the tourney was at ahy. believe me, he was hoping for a niagara win monday night. why is that you ask? the reason is because not much separates nu and sc in terms of talent. both could win a ncaa first round game. by nu losing, their chance of an at large bid is 0%. if siena lost, their rpi would have gone from 23 to 28 or so giving them a slim to decent chance of getting in as an at large. my opinion is that they would not have rec'd one, but in the eyes of the maac, it would be worth the risk because of the relatively close talent level of nu and sc. if the maac got two teams in the ncaa's, the profile of the league skyrockets from a one-bid league to a league that received one of the at larges that was reserved for a "big boy". plus the maac would double their take from the ncaa for the year, which i've heard is in the 6 figures per ncaa game played.
ok...go ahead and bash me if you want...i can take it...lol.
p.s. the times union is not the only publication picking siena to "pull a davidson" and advance deep into tourney.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/seth_davis/03/10/answer.man/1.html
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