Getting Georgetown Into NCAA's

[WindyCityGoldenEagle]

Ice - Sometimes your responses are so ridiculous and this is one of them. I think the original poster is going on the assumption that Marq is not going to make it. Sure we can talk all day about how to get Marq in the tourney (which we do inecessantly on this board) but obviously that is a serious long shot right now. If you arent able to realize the importance of getting as many Big East teams in the tourney in it's first year than I don't know what to tell you.

[MU_Iceman]

Ice - Sometimes your responses are so ridiculous and this is one of them. I think the original poster is going on the assumption that Marq is not going to make it. Sure we can talk all day about how to get Marq in the tourney (which we do inecessantly on this board) but obviously that is a serious long shot right now. If you arent able to realize the importance of getting as many Big East teams in the tourney in it's first year than I don't know what to tell you.

I'm sorry....but this has always been a bone of contention of mine. People always talk about, how if "my team can't win it then i want X team to win it". I will use football as an example..Packer fans, of which I am one, always say, "well, if the Bears or Lions or Vikings do this, it makes the division look better". NO NO NO!!! WHO CARES??? I hope they lose every game they play. I'm a Packer fan, period. I want success for them and them only! Same applies to Marquette. I NEVER root for any BE teams in Non conference(unless they play a few certain teams), and If MU isn't going to be in the dance, I don't want any of them to be. I want MU to be the cream of the crop. This conference is what it is, it's going to do what it's going to do. Unfortunately, MU is stuck in it(and quite frankly, sucking in it), and unfortunately, regardless of how many teams make it into the dance it will NEVER change people's perception that it's a mid major conference. I hope all the BE teams that make it in lose in the 1st round. I couldn't care less about the NCAAs this year, and won't watch them. Which is sad because I LIVE for the NCAA tourney every year and have taken off work for as long as I can remember. I'm so disgruntled over this debacle of a season by MU(when it should have never been this bad) that I'm bitter..I have MU to thank for that. Thanks MU!!

[WindyCityGoldenEagle]

I'm sorry....but this has always been a bone of contention of mine. People always talk about, how if "my team can't win it then i want X team to win it". I will use football as an example..Packer fans, of which I am one, always say, "well, if the Bears or Lions or Vikings do this, it makes the division look better". NO NO NO!!! WHO CARES??? I hope they lose every game they play. I'm a Packer fan, period. I want success for them and them only! Same applies to Marquette. I NEVER root for any BE teams in Non conference(unless they play a few certain teams), and If MU isn't going to be in the dance, I don't want any of them to be. I want MU to be the cream of the crop. This conference is what it is, it's going to do what it's going to do. Unfortunately, MU is stuck in it(and quite frankly, sucking in it), and unfortunately, regardless of how many teams make it into the dance it will NEVER change people's perception that it's a mid major conference. I hope all the BE teams that make it in lose in the 1st round. I couldn't care less about the NCAAs this year, and won't watch them. Which is sad because I LIVE for the NCAA tourney every year and have taken off work for as long as I can remember. I'm so disgruntled over this debacle of a season by MU(when it should have never been this bad) that I'm bitter..I have MU to thank for that. Thanks MU!!

In all seriousness, how old are you? Your response wreaks of immaturity and irrationality.

To start the NFL is a completely different animal than college buckets but I digress...

Mid major or high major - the below logic chain applies to either.

-Do you believe a higher number of bids indicates a stronger or weaker conference? I'll assume your answer to be stronger.
-Do you believe a conference being viewed as stonger leads to higher volume and quality of recruits coming to the conference? I'll assume your answer to be yes.
-Do you believe that a higher volume and quality of recruits to said conference increases or decreases the probability of a team within the conference signing these recruits? I'll assume your answer to be increases.
-Do you believe getting a larger amount of higher quality recruits leads to a higher probability of sustained success of a program? I'll assume your answer to be yes.

Therefore how can you reasonably say that the Big East having or not having success has zero impact on the probability of Marquette's ability to be good going forward. Of course it is up to the individual program itself to take advantage of these increased probabilities and sustain a successful program as we know many do not (DePaul, SH, BC, NCState, PSU, etc). But the fact is, being part of a better conference increases the probabilities of Marquette being better. By your logic, we would have the same probabilities of being good if we were in the Sun Belt Conference.