Credit where it's due

[bigpigpimpin]

Still not on the mike A fan club, but that was a good road win. Good job hogs.

[hobhog]

It was a good win, but not sure how we did it. I cringe every time we have to inbounds the ball late. It's bewildering.

Regardless, if we can win LSU and get to 15-4 we could start feeling confident. This team has some talent.

[ShadowHawg]

It was a good win, but not sure how we did it. I cringe every time we have to inbounds the ball late. It's bewildering.

Totally agree.

[ShadowHawg]

I have to admit I didn't watch. Didn't even know we had a game tonight. Unfortunately, that's just where I am as a fan. Judging by home attendance, I'm guessing many feel the same way. But when I saw the score roll across it was like oh really? We won a road sec game? That's nice. Always a total surprise. Lol. But yeah, good win.

4-1 in our last 5 SEC road games. Maybe you should spend some time watching after all. We are 11-10 in our last 21 SEC road games.

Come into the present.

[azhog10]

Still not on the mike A fan club, but that was a good road win. Good job hogs.

Haven't been happy with our defense all year. Thought that was the best defense we had played all season. Now if we can cut down on the unforced and silly turnovers we might just turn this thing around.

[azhog10]

I have to admit I didn't watch. Didn't even know we had a game tonight. Unfortunately, that's just where I am as a fan. Judging by home attendance, I'm guessing many feel the same way. But when I saw the score roll across it was like oh really? We won a road sec game? That's nice. Always a total surprise. Lol. But yeah, good win.

Winning on the road isn't something we struggle with. Beating good teams is however.

[Hog_Swanson]

Haven't been happy with our defense all year. Thought that was the best defense we had played all season. Now if we can cut down on the unforced and silly turnovers we might just turn this thing around.

We are 14 and 4.  What are you wanting to turn around?

[BrooklynRoss]

I have to admit I didn't watch. Didn't even know we had a game tonight. Unfortunately, that's just where I am as a fan. Judging by home attendance, I'm guessing many feel the same way. But when I saw the score roll across it was like oh really? We won a road sec game? That's nice. Always a total surprise. Lol. But yeah, good win.

Weird. We play almost every Tuesday and Saturday during conference with a few exceptions. Also, it's pretty easy to set alerts for when the Razorbacks play.

[ErieHog]

There's a common thread in Anderson critics.  They haven't watched much Hog basketball (or college basketball as a whole), or turn off the TV at the first sign of adversity.

[Atlhogfan1]

There's a common thread in Anderson critics.  They haven't watched much Hog basketball (or college basketball as a whole), or turn off the TV at the first sign of adversity.

This is the type of arrogant bull you read in the baseball forum.  Weak job of trying to dismiss. 

[ErieHog]

This is the type of arrogant bull you read in the baseball forum.  Weak job of trying to dismiss. 

Its true.   Its why we have so many people who think this team is in horrible shape, when its still in pretty good shape.  The disconnect between our own 'fan base' perception of the state of the program, and the outside world is marked.

[Atlhogfan1]

Its true.   Its why we have so many people who think this team is in horrible shape, when its still in pretty good shape.  The disconnect between our own 'fan base' perception of the state of the program, and the outside world is marked.

The outside world has forgotten us. We are irrelevant currently. 

No they don't think the team is in horrible shape.  Of course it is pretty good shape due largely to schedule which won't expose it. 

[20gauge]

3-3 in league play. With wins over teams that are a combined 3-14 in league play. Only one of those teams has a winning record and one is one of the worst teams in the country and barely winning two of those. Our best win is Houston who just lost to a bad Memphis team. Couple that with being handled in our 4 losses, 2 at home means we are NIT bound.

RPI is only one deciding factor but with no quality wins, don't give me all those mid majors that might make the tournament. If we just win the games we are supposed to the rest of the way we will still be a bubble team at best. We must beat at least FL or SC to get in.

Over half the games we have left can go either way, starting with LSU. A game we should win fairly easily at home would think. However I think that give us all we can handle.

[Swinesong1]

3-3 in league play. With wins over teams that are a combined 3-14 in league play. Only one of those teams has a winning record and one is one of the worst teams in the country and barely winning two of those. Our best win is Houston who just lost to a bad Memphis team. Couple that with being handled in our 4 losses, 2 at home means we are NIT bound.

RPI is only one deciding factor but with no quality wins, don't give me all those mid majors that might make the tournament. If we just win the games we are supposed to the rest of the way we will still be a bubble team at best. We must beat at least FL or SC to get in.

Over half the games we have left can go either way, starting with LSU. A game we should win fairly easily at home would think. However I think that give us all we can handle.

Memphis' record is?

[Swinesong1]

3-3 in league play. With wins over teams that are a combined 3-14 in league play. Only one of those teams has a winning record and one is one of the worst teams in the country and barely winning two of those. Our best win is Houston who just lost to a bad Memphis team. Couple that with being handled in our 4 losses, 2 at home means we are NIT bound.

RPI is only one deciding factor but with no quality wins, don't give me all those mid majors that might make the tournament. If we just win the games we are supposed to the rest of the way we will still be a bubble team at best. We must beat at least FL or SC to get in.

Over half the games we have left can go either way, starting with LSU. A game we should win fairly easily at home would think. However I think that give us all we can handle.

Define "handled"

[Letsroll1200]

The outside world has forgotten us. We are irrelevant currently. 

No they don't think the team is in horrible shape.  Of course it is pretty good shape due largely to schedule which won't expose it.

Most of the outside world have us projected to make the tournament

[Atlhogfan1]

Most of the outside world have us projected to make the tournament

I knew one of the kids would give this reply.  You really don't understand what a relevant program looks like.   

[Jonteviosk]

This is the type of arrogant bull you read in the baseball forum.  Weak job of trying to dismiss.

No erie is trying to give you uneducated rednecks the benefit of  doubt I'm not kind get your trolling backsides need to slide right on out the door.

[Jonteviosk]

I knew one of the kids would give this reply.  You really don't understand what a relevant program looks like.

Obviously neither does your dumbass. Tell you what genius when we make the tournament most of you trolls will disappear right until before next season.

[Atlhogfan1]

Obviously neither does your dumbass. Tell you what genius when we make the tournament most of you trolls will disappear right until before next season.

1 NCAAT appearance as the third or fourth team from the SEC doesn't get the program back into the national conversation.  I don't disappear.  Others do. Some of the biggest supporters.  One in this thread. 

[Jonteviosk]

1 NCAAT appearance as the third or fourth team from the SEC doesn't get the program back into the national conversation.  I don't disappear.  Others do. Some of the biggest supporters.  One in this thread.

The goal set for this team was the tournament. National relevance comes eventually as a byproduct of winning.

[Atlhogfan1]

The goal set for this team was the tournament. National relevance comes eventually as a byproduct of winning.

The minimum goal for this team this season was the tournament.  Yes it does.  So you agree with my earlier replies. 

[20gauge]

Define "handled"

Losses by 21, 26, 16 and I forget what MSU beat is by. Yeah we were in those games for a half but other than that we never were close to going to win those games.

We can make the tourney but we are going to have to play better than we have. A win is a win. Norhing wrong with being optimistic. However the way we have played doesn't lend one to think we are only lose, say SC and FL the rest of the way. What it does say is that every game is going to be a dog fight that can go either way. Mizzou is probably our only guaranteed win the rest of the way. We have very little wiggle room if we intend to make the tourney

[20gauge]

Memphis' record is?

Not making the tourney but I can look it up if you want. They have some bad losses. One being OM, Tulsa. Overall 14-5 and their best win is you guessed it Houston

[BannerMountainMan]

Losses by 21, 26, 16 and I forget what MSU beat is by. Yeah we were in those games for a half but other than that we never were close to going to win those games.

We can make the tourney but we are going to have to play better than we have. A win is a win. Norhing wrong with being optimistic. However the way we have played doesn't lend one to think we are only lose, say SC and FL the rest of the way. What it does say is that every game is going to be a dog fight that can go either way. Mizzou is probably our only guaranteed win the rest of the way. We have very little wiggle room if we intend to make the tourney

where the heck are you getting your numbers at!! We lost by 14,9,26,6

[HogBreath]

4-1 in our last 5 SEC road games. Maybe you should spend some time watching after all. We are 11-10 in our last 21 SEC road games.

Come into the present.

That's pretty danged good, I have to admit.  And who knows what the rest of the schedule will bring, maybe the usual roller coaster, but..this team has a chance to turn some heads.

[realistichog]

Lunes like someone is in the moral victory business. We ONLY lost by 14,9,26,6

[azhog10]

We are 14 and 4.  What are you wanting to turn around?

Winning against NCAAT bound teams.

[RealHog]

It was a good win, but not sure how we did it. I cringe every time we have to inbounds the ball late. It's bewildering.

Regardless, if we can win LSU and get to 15-4 we could start feeling confident. This team has some talent.

Yesssss. This is something I didn't know was that hard until some teams do it. There is some strategy that goes into a clean inbound pass (or late game score) against tight pressure, and we aren't good at them right now.

[Jonteviosk]

Losses by 21, 26, 16 and I forget what MSU beat is by. Yeah we were in those games for a half but other than that we never were close to going to win those games.

We can make the tourney but we are going to have to play better than we have. A win is a win. Norhing wrong with being optimistic. However the way we have played doesn't lend one to think we are only lose, say SC and FL the rest of the way. What it does say is that every game is going to be a dog fight that can go either way. Mizzou is probably our only guaranteed win the rest of the way. We have very little wiggle room if we intend to make the tourney

Come everyone were gonna play pin the tail on the jackass. Play better were about to be 15-4 genius. Listen to this idiot youd think we were in LSU's boat 9-8 lol. Shear stupidity.

[Jonteviosk]

Lunes like someone is in the moral victory business. We ONLY lost by 14,9,26,6

Another moron who fails to register 14 soon to be 15 wins vs those 4 losses. I hope this stupidity isn't contagious.

[Jonteviosk]

Yesssss. This is something I didn't know was that hard until some teams do it. There is some strategy that goes into a clean inbound pass (or late game score) against tight pressure, and we aren't good at them right now.

14-4 says otherwise

[LZH]

There's a common thread in Anderson critics.  They haven't watched much Hog basketball (or college basketball as a whole), or turn off the TV at the first sign of adversity.

Erie, to say I've lost interest may not even be a strong enough term. I don't even think about Razorback basketball anymore. Haven't watched a game since probably the year we beat Kentucky with that put-back dunk. Same with MA, can't say I am a harsh critic because it is a non-issue these days. I couldn't name one player on the team right now.

And this is from a guy who once infuriated my daddy to the point that he finally had cable ran to our office because I refused to work on days that SEC/NCAA Tourney games were on TV.

But I read somewhere the other day that we have the #1 recruiting class for next year or the year after next, I don't remember. And apparently we are 15-4 and are playing much better. I so want our program to return to competing with the best teams in college basketball......wanting to be interested again.

[BannerMountainMan]

Lunes like someone is in the moral victory business. We ONLY lost by 14,9,26,6

im sorry I just don't like people making up scores to make us sound worse farther up their in the thread

[HogBreath]

Come everyone were gonna play pin the tail on the jackass. Play better were about to be 15-4 genius. Listen to this idiot youd think we were in LSU's boat 9-8 lol. Shear stupidity.

He don't know much about scissors?

[1highhog]

We are 14 and 4.  What are you wanting to turn around?

Have any of those wins been to good teams?

[BannerMountainMan]

Have any of those wins been to good teams?

how many losses have been to mediocre teams?

[1highhog]

Its true.   Its why we have so many people who think this team is in horrible shape, when its still in pretty good shape.  The disconnect between our own 'fan base' perception of the state of the program, and the outside world is marked.

No, I have no problem with this team, I just think it needs a better Coach.  As I'm getting very tired of saying, Mike is a guy I've liked before we hired him, the exact reason I didn't want him hired, because I knew he wasn't a good Coach and wouldn't work out here and after 6 long years, more years than any used to be basketball powerhouse would give a Coach, we still have him as our dang Coach.

We have a football Coach that people want to fire after year 4, but a basketball Coach that hasn't done squat in 6 years and fans want to keep him,,,unreal! 

[Dominicanhog]

We have a football Coach that people want to fire after year 4, but a basketball Coach that hasn't done squat in 6 years and fans want to keep him,,,unreal! 

They wanted to fire Mike after years 1,2,3,4,5 etc... they'll want to fire CBB after years 4,5, etc.. and you fit right in with the rest of them..

amazing how often we see a moron calling another moron a moron... he's not done with year 6 btw.. but you've already chalked it up to not squat.. an agenda maybe?

[rusvegashog]

In those four games we got beat by 38, Tuesday, 196 and CNN. See I can do it to. Rable, rable, rable. Grrrr I'm mad and I have an opinion. It might not be based in logic or reality, but I have a "SMART" phone. So........ I watched the game at a public watering hole and sat and listened to one after the other behind me talk about how bad we sucked. Mind you that none of them actually watched the game just caught the score and put out an opinion as fact to whoever would listen.  Yeah "NEWS" channels, message boards, comment sections and once again ""SMART" phones are a goood thing. SMH

[20gauge]

Another moron who fails to register 14 soon to be 15 wins vs those 4 losses. I hope this stupidity isn't contagious.

I was going off memory and we were at least down by that much in those games. But yet here's another moron who believes beating the academy for the deaf is getting us in the tourney.

Are we in the same boat with LSU. No we have more wins. But we have won our close games and they haven't. All I'm saying is it isn't going to be an easy win. I'd be surprised if we win by double digits

[20gauge]

Come everyone were gonna play pin the tail on the jackass. Play better were about to be 15-4 genius. Listen to this idiot youd think we were in LSU's boat 9-8 lol. Shear stupidity.

Stupidity is ignoring the truth of what this team is and that's 7th place in one of the worst leagues in the country. Having lost to the only good teams in the league so far and barely beating the ones that are the worst. The teams we beat in league have I combined 3 freaking wins in league and only one has a winning record. So tell me again how proud you are of our soon to be 15 wins. Name that signature win that's gonna get us recognized and in the tourney. I'm mean TN is 9-9, only beat them by 4, Mizzou has what 5 wins but what a great win we got so much better according to coach then A&M at 9-8 now by 2. Wins and they matter but they show how close we are to the bottom than the top right now.

No we ain't in LSU's boat but we are towing it just behind us. Ours is the USS NIT right now and that's not stupid. That's the darn truth.

We can't afford one slip up. We have to win every game we are favored to win and we need to beat either SC or FL and that the way it needs to be approached by this team.

[20gauge]

Lunes like someone is in the moral victory business. We ONLY lost by 14,9,26,6

No I just remembered how far we were behind in those games at one point. The point is we were never really in those games except for a half of them. But ill admit I didn't get to watch the Florida game and MSU didn't seem that close because of how they were torching us from 3. During those games I never felt we had a chance to win them

[Dominicanhog]

We can't afford one slip up. We have to win every game we are favored to win and we need to beat either SC or FL and that the way it needs to be approached by this team.

May be the way we need to approach it but those are not facts.. we could lose to both, and a couple more, and still be in.. need to keep winning, but every loss is not as dire as some want to make it...

[PonderinHog]

Actually, we don't need to worry about SC or FL until we play them.  This team can't look past anybody.  As far as SOS, RPI and NCAAT aspirations go, this year it's a matter of quantity over quality. 

[Dominicanhog]

Actually, we don't need to worry about SC or FL until we play them.  This team can't look past anybody.  As far as SOS, RPI and NCAAT aspirations go, this year it's a matter of quantity over quality.

Yep.. just get in.. and build from there.. 

[20gauge]

Agree just get in. Quality will count for someone though it always does. While we can afford losses it can't be bad ones. A loss to Mizzou could be damaging. It would be nice to steal one at SC and or FL. We can't finish 7th in the league though and get in.

We should beat LSU today but I'm not counting anything until its done. Football season taught me that lol

[HoopS]

No question we need to improve to the point of beating the better teams. It should have been at least a glimpse of excitement seeing how we played with Kentucky for a good portion of the game. Need to play at that level a full 40. It's a process. There are good things to see if you choose to try.

[FineAsSwine]

Erie, to say I've lost interest may not even be a strong enough term. I don't even think about Razorback basketball anymore. Haven't watched a game since probably the year we beat Kentucky with that put-back dunk. Same with MA, can't say I am a harsh critic because it is a non-issue these days. I couldn't name one player on the team right now.

And this is from a guy who once infuriated my daddy to the point that he finally had cable ran to our office because I refused to work on days that SEC/NCAA Tourney games were on TV.

But I read somewhere the other day that we have the #1 recruiting class for next year or the year after next, I don't remember. And apparently we are 15-4 and are playing much better. I so want our program to return to competing with the best teams in college basketball......wanting to be interested again.

Lots of commentary from a supposedly uninterested party. 

[Dominicanhog]

Lots of commentary from a supposedly uninterested party. 

yeah and he's watching UF/Vandy but doesn't pay attention to the Hogs.. haha..