The Flaming Burning Stinking & Predictable Disaster that is Creighton Basketball

[jocoshock]

@jeffborzello: Creighton guard Isaiah Zierden has suffered a season-ending knee injury, per the school. Injury occurred on Wednesday against Butler.

[1972Shocker]

@jeffborzello: Creighton guard Isaiah Zierden has suffered a season-ending knee injury, per the school. Injury occurred on Wednesday against Butler.

That is unfortunate and something you hate to see irrespective of how much you dislike Creighton. Hopefully, the young man makes a full recovery and can get back at it next year.

[Shoxfan11]

They did win the league in 08-09.

Well, they tied for first and got the two seed. Then they lost to the 7 seed in the Valley Tournament (becoming the first top two seed to lose to a team that won a play-in game I believe) but for some reason were allowed to move on to the next round, where in true Creighton fashion they got absolutely blown out.

[Rlh04d]

It's not that they suck. It's the whole leaving the Valley thing and the attitude the league wiill fail miserably without their class and charm. Also, the fact that it took exactly one year for their "fans" to start jumping ship.

I remember when we sucked. I also remember when
Creighton sucked before we sucked. Their comes a time when you quit looking back and worrying we will be there again and just enjoy the moment-plenty of room in my heart to love the Shockers in addition to loving what is going on in Omaha right now. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

That's the important part for me. I'm too young to have experienced the great teams in Shocker history before this current run. I fell in love with late 80s/90s WSU, with a nearly full aging arena still cheering on some very bad teams. I always loved the fans more than the teams -- it's something truly special for a fanbase to turn out in the numbers and with the enthusiasm WSU fans did for so many bad years in a row.

The bandwagon nature of Creighton fans will always annoy me. Give them five years of mediocrity and that place will be a ghost town, especially if Nebraska can recover. They're not Creighton fans ... they're fans of winning. Everyone is a fan of winning.

[pogo]

Everyone loves a winner. Look at all the people that love the Yankees. A comic once said that rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house to win at a casino. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO WIN YOU IDIOT

[LandStander]

Grew up on 90s wsu and loved everything about it. Probably why I became a bears fan when I move to chicago. Boy can I stick out some down years

[rjl]

Creighton:



Me:

[Shocker-maniac]

The bandwagon nature of Creighton fans will always annoy me. Give them five years of mediocrity and that place will be a ghost town, especially if Nebraska can recover. They're not Creighton fans ... they're fans of winning. Everyone is a fan of winning.

I imagine it's going to take a lot of groupons to keep those bandwagon fans going to their games.

[60Shock]

I could really care what CU does or does not do now that they are no longer in the Valley or even play us.

What matters is: Will the complete meltdown of arguably one of the top MVC teams, within two years after joining the Big East, hurt our chances of getting a future invitation to join a conference whose TV money is significantly more than what we receive in the Valley?

[DwShock]

http://m.omaha.com/creighton/pivovar-situation-for-early-s-jays-was-worse/article_72d49421-4218-5cb0-98f5-64fe501d73ef.html?mode=jqm

[Shock Therapy]

http://m.omaha.com/creighton/pivovar-situation-for-early-s-jays-was-worse/article_72d49421-4218-5cb0-98f5-64fe501d73ef.html?mode=jqm

The thing about them needing a transition period as they upgrade to "Big East caliber talent" is a joke. You recruit talent to compete with all of D1, regardless of your conference. Maybe that viewpoint explains their lack of tournament success. That's how losers think.

[DUShock]

http://m.omaha.com/creighton/pivovar-situation-for-early-s-jays-was-worse/article_72d49421-4218-5cb0-98f5-64fe501d73ef.html?mode=jqm

What about last season with "Valley talent". Duh!

[Perezident]

Well, they tied for first and got the two seed. Then they lost to the 7 seed in the Valley Tournament (becoming the first top two seed to lose to a team that won a play-in game I believe) but for some reason were allowed to move on to the next round, where in true Creighton fashion they got absolutely blown out.

Wait, what? Creighton lost in the tourney and moved on anyway; how does that happen?

[Rlh04d]

What about last season with "Valley talent". Duh!

To be fair, they didn't have Valley talent last year. They had McDermott carrying mostly inferior players. Without Big Ech, Creighton would have been swept by us last season.

McD hasn't been recruiting even high level Valley talent. He lucked into a talented transfer and his own son, but that was really it for that team.

The transition period comment is a joke, though. Creighton was going to collapse this year regardless of conference, because McD isn't a good coach/recruiter.

[ShockerPhi]

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