Gonzaga

EwaDawg said:

rodmansrage said:

huskyhooligan said:

https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/worst-college-basketball-fans

8. Gonzaga University Bulldogs

Gonzaga fans make Florida fans seem grounded. By their logic, winning the vaunted West Coast Conference, getting an undeserved high seed, beating a couple of liberal arts schools then getting bounced by the first real team you face every year makes you a "perennial." Zag fans love to delusionally wax poetic about there being "something special at Gonzaga." Gonzaga, if you didn’t know, is in Spokane. What Zag fans don’t realize is they’re not a big fish in a small pond; they’re a big fish in a bathtub. Gonzaga’s roster mostly consists of guys from legit programs who transferred so they could see what winning was like by beating up on St. Mary’s and Loyola Marymount. The dirty fact no Zag fan wants to admit is when they face big state schools, the team is average. Beat Ohio State, lose to Florida. Beat Duke, lose to Tennessee. There’s a word for that in big-time basketball conferences: "mediocrity."

Literally its the fans. They keep comparing their accomplishments to Duke or Kentucky, but it was done by being an absolute Goliath. Remember Butler? Remember how they went to two finals in a row. The Gonzaga of the Midwest. Remember how once they joined the Big East it became much tougher to make the tourney every year? Gonzaga's run has been incubated by their presence in the WCC. The run is impressive, but lets not act like it happens in a major conference.

Most teams that a 1 or 2 seed make the sweet 16.








As the article states above most of those sweet 16 runs, were against a 16 seed, and a then an 8 or 9.

This was after the ucla game:

https://twitter.com/IWCorriher/status/1639121964634714112?s=20

It does not seem IMPOSSIBLE AT ALL. It actually fits the most accurate narrative if you have paid attention AT ALL during the past quarter century.

It's kind of a stupid tweet and is written in a misleading way. All that says is they haven't faced a 1 or 2 seed. When you're the 1 or 2 seed every year you're never going to face another highly seeded team until the Elite 8. Making it that far most years is reflective of a pretty good program. That's also kind of how the tournament ends up going many years anymore given how diluted CBB now is.

I think the tournament should be completely overhauled and replaced with pods like in the World Cup. You'd still get some upsets, but more likely to see the best teams get through in more of a round robin format without shifting to actual best-of series.

Living in Spokane has given me the opportunity to truly get to know and hate GU.

Seeing that Drew and Strawberry like to party with a gay booster (usually in a private room in borrachos) at spokanes finest gay bars and clubs is something that shocked me, watching Anton Watson be a complete dickhead to bar staff, does not.


I was too old to get to play against his son but had plenty friends who did - that kid was TERRIBLE and the fact that he’s on the GU team proves they don’t have to have a high standard for recruiting because their conference is not competitive.

“Bio: Second-oldest child of Gonzaga coach Mark Few joins Bulldogs as a freshman walk-on after a two-year stint at Spokane’s Gonzaga Prep. Made 32 appearances for Bullpups, averaging 7.7 points per game as a senior while scoring season-high 23 points at Cheney. Played in state tournament as a junior, helping G-Prep go 18-18 and finish second in district with league record of 12-2.”

theLSkid said:

Living in Spokane has given me the opportunity to truly get to know and hate GU.

Seeing that Drew and Strawberry like to party with a gay booster (usually in a private room in borrachos) at spokanes finest gay bars and clubs is something that shocked me, watching Anton Watson be a complete dickhead to bar staff, does not.


I was too old to get to play against his son but had plenty friends who did - that kid was TERRIBLE and the fact that he’s on the GU team proves they don’t have to have a high standard for recruiting because their conference is not competitive.

“Bio: Second-oldest child of Gonzaga coach Mark Few joins Bulldogs as a freshman walk-on after a two-year stint at Spokane’s Gonzaga Prep. Made 32 appearances for Bullpups, averaging 7.7 points per game as a senior while scoring season-high 23 points at Cheney. Played in state tournament as a junior, helping G-Prep go 18-18 and finish second in district with league record of 12-2.”

It's a thing now. Lots of D1 coaches kids are 13th man on the bench.

Danny Hurley's kid even got in for UConn during garbage time .

Joe is not good.

1to392831weretaken said:

theLSkid said:

Seeing that Drew and Strawberry like to party with a gay booster (usually in a private room in borrachos) at spokanes finest gay bars and clubs is something that shocked me, watching Anton Watson be a complete dickhead to bar staff, does not.

What's shocking about a couple of guysms being gay?

Not shocking that they are gay - not that there’s anything wrong with that.
The booster is known for being a major creep on young dudes at the bars, borderline stalker. That’s the more “shocking” part

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

Come for the Gonzaga trash talk, stay for the Spokane gay scene hawt talk

Tomato Tumahto

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dannarc said:

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