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re: When did A&M quit caring about basketball and Bama quit caring about baseball?
Posted on 1/24/13 at 9:58 am to tigerskin
Posted on 1/24/13 at 9:58 am to tigerskin
That's what I don't get about LSU fans. Y'all have a very good basketball history AND fan support but the fan support literally evaporated as soon as Dale Brown left. Alabama basketball hit a small lull under Dave Hobbs after Wimp left but the fan support has remained solid despite a few lean years in the late 90s.
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Posted on 1/24/13 at 9:59 am to aggressor
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The style of play was also like watching paint dry. Very defensive oriented and you could go 3 games without seeing a "highlight" play.
I loved BCG like any other Ag, but I was one of the few, I believe, who genuinely enjoyed the style of play Turgeon brought to Aggieland. The PR disaster aside, I appreciated the defensive soundness with which his squads played. What good are highlight reel-worthy plays if you're hemorrhaging buckets on the other end of the floor?
Of course, that's coming from a Spurs fan, a team that has been saddled with the "boring" label for over a decade, fair or not
Posted on 1/24/13 at 9:59 am to NorthGwinnett LSU
quote:nope
Has bama ever really cared about baseball?
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:01 am to burbank
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I KNOW you he would have done much better than Fran did, and would have liked to see how he would have done with the better facilities in place.
Unfortunately, with what was and wasn't coming back after the 2002 season, the 2003 team would have gone 4-8 even with Slocum as head coach. He only recruited ONE linebacker in the 1999 class. (Brian Gamble) You recruit 1 linebacker for a 3-4 team and you're basically giving up.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:02 am to TbirdSpur2010
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I loved BCG like any other Ag, but I was one of the few, I believe, who genuinely enjoyed the style of play Turgeon brought to Aggieland. The PR disaster aside, I appreciated the defensive soundness with which his squads played. What good are highlight reel-worthy plays if you're hemorrhaging buckets on the other end of the floor?
One thing you could always count on with Turgeon was an inbounds play for a score with less than 5 seconds on the shot clock that would completely depants the other team.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:04 am to Govt Tide
Well, like the point of the topic, winning a lot would fix that. The John Brady connection never really happened and has basically been in a rut since. So basically it looks like we will need a big winner to get it going again....unless somebody can find another Chris Jackson or Shaq out there.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:05 am to CGSC Lobotomy
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One thing you could always count on with Turgeon was an inbounds play for a score with less than 5 seconds on the shot clock that would completely depants the other team.
Yeah, he drew up more than a few doozies on inbounds plays
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:05 am to TT9
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Has bama ever really cared about baseball?
nope
Win a CWS and watch those Bama flags fly even though y'all would be doing your damndest to act like it wasn't a big deal in here.
This post was edited on 1/24/13 at 10:07 am
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:11 am to bbap
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its still pretty awful to not like baseball.
Please, it's the most boring sport there is.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:11 am to tigerskin
Why is it so hard to beloved that we just don't like baseball?
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:15 am to pvilleguru
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it's the most boring sport there is
This.
Hence, the reason it's no longer "America's Pastime."
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:18 am to pvilleguru
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Why is it so hard to beloved that we just don't like baseball?
"For 12 of the last 13 seasons Alabama has ranked in the top 10 nationally in attendance."
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:25 am to tigerskin
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Well, like the point of the topic, winning a lot would fix that. The John Brady connection never really happened and has basically been in a rut since. So basically it looks like we will need a big winner to get it going again....unless somebody can find another Chris Jackson or Shaq out there.
It may take that but I still don't understand how fan support for basketball has gotten as bad as it has at LSU. Alabama had a pretty bad drought in the late 90s and then again in the last few years under Gottfried but Alabama fans didn't quit caring about basketball. The shift from having enthusiastic fan support for many years for basketball at LSU to totally not caring about the sport anymore is what I find bizarre about LSU fans.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:29 am to Govt Tide
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It may take that but I still don't understand how fan support for basketball has gotten as bad as it has at LSU. Alabama had a pretty bad drought in the late 90s and then again in the last few years under Gottfried but Alabama fans didn't quit caring about basketball. The shift from having enthusiastic fan support for many years for basketball at LSU to totally not caring about the sport anymore is what I find bizarre about LSU fans.
Sanctions bother us.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:29 am to TbirdSpur2010
I'm a HUGE Spurs fan but they aren't boring. They are fundamentally sound and incredibly efficient. Minimal turnovers and crisp passes to set up open shots.
Turge's teams were good defensively but frustrating to watch offensively. It doesn't have to be all breakaway dunks, just solid execution and efficient offense. His style was more "pass the ball around the perimeter until the shot clock gets down and then try and get the best look you can". Then they played tough D on the other end for the most part which was good but it just made for ugly basketball. If they won more big games it might have made it more tolerable.
The real problem though was I would make an effort to drive up from Austin for a few games a year, often doing an up and back on a Wednesday, and then come back to hear him whine about attendance again. He just never grasped that you can only pull out the "guilt" card so many times before people turn on you. On Texags it was thread after thread of people arguing about attendance pitting Aggies against Aggies. I just wanted to hear him be positive and encouraging like Gary Blair and make people WANT to support the team instead of feeling obligated to.
Turge's teams were good defensively but frustrating to watch offensively. It doesn't have to be all breakaway dunks, just solid execution and efficient offense. His style was more "pass the ball around the perimeter until the shot clock gets down and then try and get the best look you can". Then they played tough D on the other end for the most part which was good but it just made for ugly basketball. If they won more big games it might have made it more tolerable.
The real problem though was I would make an effort to drive up from Austin for a few games a year, often doing an up and back on a Wednesday, and then come back to hear him whine about attendance again. He just never grasped that you can only pull out the "guilt" card so many times before people turn on you. On Texags it was thread after thread of people arguing about attendance pitting Aggies against Aggies. I just wanted to hear him be positive and encouraging like Gary Blair and make people WANT to support the team instead of feeling obligated to.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:32 am to DynastyDawg
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If you don't like college baseball, that's your opinion and no one is asking you to change it. To call it a minor college sport that no one commits any resources to is asinine.
Watching college baseball is 1,000X better than MLB due to the same reason that all college sports are better than the pros, effort and love for the game instead of money. Also, there's not 162 games.
Spot frickin' on. And those who think it's boring generally don't recognize all the strategies and counter strategies being employed below the surface.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:34 am to tigerskin
What exactly is athletic about college baseball? Baseball is one of the only sports that you can be fat and out of shape. I mean, you can be fat and out of shape as a nose tackle, but it doesn't translate to EVERY single position.
I can't think of one position that someone needs to be in good shape in baseball to do well except maybe the catcher. And only because he has to squat the whole game.
I can't think of one position that someone needs to be in good shape in baseball to do well except maybe the catcher. And only because he has to squat the whole game.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:35 am to pvilleguru
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Why is it so hard to beloved that we just don't like baseball?
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:37 am to MikeHoncho
Me too!I watch all the Bama baseball games online.Don't think I have missed one in 2 or 3 years.And I try to go to as many as I can.
Posted on 1/24/13 at 10:38 am to Bellabama
Since when do SEC baseball teams have fat centerfielders?And shortstop?
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