If you like the taste of Gonzaga tears, there's a second helping to be had.

Can we get a link to their board? I believe this is pio’s domain?

Have to google it.

They keep blocking links from here.

They blocked links after the game too

The current era of “peak Gonzaga” might actually be coming to an end. Mark Few is a great coach so they’ll still be relevant but they lost the guy who helped him turn the Zags into a juggernaut. He’s at Arizona now.

I still wanna know the story on the Wade kid.

I get Oregon and NIL money, but clearly we can match it.

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Their fans crying about how there was no way we could land a recruiting class that good is a tasty morsel I must admit.

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For dinner last night I had a Gonzaga melt marinated in Bulldog tears.

I read their board for the first time yesterday, and couldn’t help but read their game thread to relive Thursday night. Seeing the hope fade with every page as the game wore on was glorious.

I then migrated over to their stickied 2022-23 roster thread for more schadenfreude. It devolved from them counting AB as a definite part of their roster to “guys we have nothing to worry about” to “he’s committing to us, Thursday’s game didn’t change anything” to “reports that he may go elsewhere but he’s not going to Arkansas” to “well shite, don’t look now but we only have 3 guards next year.”

They’re blaming Few now because apparently they have two 5 stars that Few didn’t play much this past season, which they’re surmising played into AB’s decision.

They’re also crying about NIL and how it’s unfair that we have deeper pockets.

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I read their board for the first time yesterday, and couldn’t help but read their game thread to relive Thursday night. Seeing the hope fade with every page as the game wore on was glorious.

I then migrated over to their stickied 2022-23 roster thread for more schadenfreude. It devolved from them counting AB as a definite part of their roster to “guys we have nothing to worry about” to “he’s committing to us, Thursday’s game didn’t change anything” to “reports that he may go elsewhere but he’s not going to Arkansas” to “well shite, don’t look now but we only have 3 guards next year.”

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I can't read all that in one setting. I can only get so aroused darn it!

I don't hold any ill will towards Gonzaga. I like their team when they're not playing us.

But why do they think it's so farfetched that we signed Black when Muss just showed the world he can win against superior talent (and thereby get the most potential out of players)? Muss just made it to the Elite 8 with the worst shooters in tournament history. Talk about doing more with less.

Then there's the fact we have a more storied program than Gonzaga. And the fact we already had 2 McDonald's all Americans locked up.

But yeah I'm sure it's only NIL deals.

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They don't realize that the last 20 years or so has mainly been the outlier in our program.

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Our years wandering in the desert.

Arkansas was easily top 10 in the 90s. The brass did whatever they could to drag it in the mud for 20 years. I think some of it had to do with the lack of respect of what Nolan and Eddie did to the program. The brass didn't like the idea that basketball was leaving football in the dust. I think they believed that Arkansas holding the reputation as a basketball school would hurt the image in football. So when Nolan got fired, they treated the coaching searches like it was no big deal and besides it is just basketball as they say.

That is just my opinion because I think some in the brass treated the basketball program as inferior to football. I believe as Muss continues to win, he will be well above in pay to all the rest of the sports. This is unheard because football always paid more even if the coach was mediocre. I'm sure it does rub some hog fans the wrong way that Muss is making more than Sam.