re: Frank Martin is going to change OOC contracts to avoid situations like this year

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Why is that reference misused so often? What on earth does this situation have to do with "sour grapes"? The reference is to the fable in which the fox who can't reach the grapes concludes that they are probably sour anyway, so it's just as well he can't reach them. The moral is that people sometimes pretend not to want something they can't have so they don't feel bad about not having it. How is that in any way relevant to Martin's point in this situation? "Sour grapes" would be applicable if he said something to the effect that being in the NCAA tournament is no big deal, so it's OK that they're not.

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Because sour grapes and gross and no one wants sour grapes.

TBH, I had no clue where the phrase came from and use it solely contextually.

so we are all admitting the experts are right about the SEC because the team who finished third, according to SEC tournament standings, sucks and does not belong in the dance.

You can look at OOC all you want, and it was weak, however the Gamecocks finished tied for third in the conference and won tie breakers due to head to head competition.

the conference needs to improve its image, in a big kind of way

Frank just needs to worry more, and concentrate more, on his decision to have Thornwell handling the ball against Fraizer for the final 16 seconds of the game rather than running the offense that had been successful all game.

Frank needs to worry more about why he refused to play Carrera in that final game when, in fact, the doctors had cleared Carrera to play, and he wanted to play.

And instead of changing the contracts ... just change the fricking schedule. I realize there was no way Frank could have known how this year's schedule could have played-out ... it was an unlucky break considering many of these teams are normally very very solid teams, but hell, just roll with it and admit ... it wasn't so much about the schedule as it was about the bad losses. At Mizzou, three against UGA and at MSU. Win just two of those five and we would not be having this conversation in this thread.

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Unless he has some magic trick to avoid Georgia yall are screwed anyway.

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Maybe we could play A&M 18 times?

Or maybe 81-78

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Why is that reference misused so often? What on earth does this situation have to do with "sour grapes"? The reference is to the fable in which the fox who can't reach the grapes concludes that they are probably sour anyway, so it's just as well he can't reach them. The moral is that people sometimes pretend not to want something they can't have so they don't feel bad about not having it. How is that in any way relevant to Martin's point in this situation? "Sour grapes" would be applicable if he said something to the effect that being in the NCAA tournament is no big deal, so it's OK that they're not.

If the reference applies to any SEC basketball coach/team right now, it's Jones/LSU, who "declined" to play in an NIT that they may well not have been invited to anyway.

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Bringing knowledge to the rant!

Martin should just sack up as Barnes said.

Play UNC, UVA, Indiana, GT, etc. Plenty of teams close by that are good pretty much every year and would bring much more excitement to your program when they come in Colonial Life.

Relying on Drexel and USF to be good as solid OOC games is playing with fire.

I don't think so. I think the problem is bad OOC scheduling. Obviously there are some exceptions but outside of UK obviously and UF under Donovan and Tennessee under Pearl, SEC teams have not played marquis OOC schedules consistently. It's not a coincidence that those teams were comfortably in the field every single year even when they lost 4 or 5 non conference games.

When you are playing a handful of name teams every year it can only help you. Losing to them doesn't affect anything and beating 1 or 2 of them pushes you ahead of the entire bubble.

Tennessee plays UNC, Gonzaga, IU, UVA, GT and possibly Zona next year plus a loaded Maui field.

Losing those games doesn't hurt you but if you win even 1 or 2 that is probably a better OOC win than anyone else on the bubble is going to have.

Memphis obviously lost Nichols in the summer but that is not exactly a marquis game with Pastner's track record there.

DePaul and St Johns were expected to be all time bad this season.

FSU and Leonard Hamilton is the same problem as Memphis.

As I said, why not play upper tier teams in the ACC as close as they are to Columbia?

Why not use Martin's Big XII connections to get Kansas or Oklahoma or Baylor in to CLA?

wow

dude sounds like a complete cry baby turd trying to excuse falling out of the tourney this way.