Games of interest

[wushock27]

That wasn't asking for an explanation, that was trying to shoot his comment down... BIG difference!!! Lol!!

[Cdizzle]

Texas A&M
RPI 114
Pomeroy 105

Any chance you have their numbers from before winning @Tennessee? The best I could find was at the beginning of last week 178 (before Ark. and @Tenn). That is bottom half of D1. I think in a pre-Tennessee win situation, I could agree with pretty-awful. AWFUL might be slightly strong. In a post-Tennessee win situation, I would go with ok or not that great.

[pinstripers]

I also think he gets one more year. A lot of Maryland fans won't like it.

Agreed. Unless they really tank.

[SHOCKvalue]

Agreed. Unless they really tank.

While Turg was obviously instrumental in helping to resurrected WSU from the bottom 1/3rd of D1 to the upper 1/3rd or such, he really is otherwise a pretty mediocre coach. He just caught lightning in a bottle here during that 1.5 season run.

If for some reason many years down the road 3G moved on and we re-hired an available Turg, I would instantly need a prescription to an anti-depressant.

[shockmonster]

It hook longer to bring us from the abyss.

[Dan]

Turg provides value in certain coaching situations. Elite coach he is not.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Any chance you have their numbers from before winning @Tennessee? The best I could find was at the beginning of last week 178 (before Ark. and @Tenn). That is bottom half of D1. I think in a pre-Tennessee win situation, I could agree with pretty-awful. AWFUL might be slightly strong. In a post-Tennessee win situation, I would go with ok or not that great.

I believe A&M's RPI was in the 140s prior to the win @ Tennessee boosting them to 114. Either way, Tennessee is a NCAA bubble team. Losing to a top 150 team like A&M is far from the unforgivable offense that the original post made it out to be. Given WuDrWu's post just last week about NIT-ish Marquette being a "Thursday night team in the MVC", I just thought I'd point out that WuDrWu has been a bit heavy on the exageration recently.

[RoyalShock]

I think there were two people who made Turgeon look like a very good coach - Tad Boyle and Acie Law.

[ShockerFever]

You just like to stir the pot, don't you??

Him? Never. He's a freaking genius and wants to make sure everybody knows it.

Just ask him how he thought WSU was gonna do last year.

[im4wsu]

I believe A&M's RPI was in the 140s prior to the win @ Tennessee boosting them to 114. Either way, Tennessee is a NCAA bubble team. Losing to a top 150 team like A&M is far from the unforgivable offense that the original post made it out to be. Given WuDrWu's post just last week about NIT-ish Marquette being a "Thursday night team in the MVC", I just thought I'd point out that WuDrWu has been a bit heavy on the exageration recently.

Here is weekly tracking of Texas A&M RealTime RPI and SOS (1/6 was before their win over Arkansas

	RPI	RPIRank	SOS	SOS Rank
6-Jan	0.4917	177	0.472	242
30-Dec	0.5076	155	0.4817	215
23-Dec	0.5002	172	0.4718	240
16-Dec	0.5155	139	0.452	263
9-Dec	0.5376	114	0.491	187
2-Dec	0.5017	161	0.4546	250
25-Nov	0.5394	122	0.3859	313
18-Nov	0.4167	240	0.2222	332

[AndShock]

I believe A&M's RPI was in the 140s prior to the win @ Tennessee boosting them to 114. Either way, Tennessee is a NCAA bubble team. Losing to a top 150 team like A&M is far from the unforgivable offense that the original post made it out to be. Given WuDrWu's post just last week about NIT-ish Marquette being a "Thursday night team in the MVC", I just thought I'd point out that WuDrWu has been a bit heavy on the exageration recently.

Or maybe you and Doc just have different definitions of "terrible." To use a familiar example, I would say DePaul is "terrible." DePaul's OoC RPI is about 50 pts better than A&M's. Losing to a terrible team doesn't mean it's a terrible loss going off of RPI standards.

[Kung Wu]

Texas A&M
RPI 114
Pomeroy 105

Just like your comments about DePaul and Marquette, I think you are once again exagerating by quite a bit.

Here is weekly tracking of Texas A&M RealTime RPI and SOS (1/6 was before their win over Arkansas

	RPI	RPIRank	SOS	SOS Rank
6-Jan	0.4917	177	0.472	242

177? Instead of "AWFUL" would you roll with "butt-stanky"? Cuz' that's kind of where I see 177.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

177? Instead of "AWFUL" would you roll with "butt-stanky"? Cuz' that's kind of where I see 177.

I would let you call the #177 team in the country "butt-stanky", but you have to ignore Texas A&M's last 2 games (wins over top 100 opponents) in order to rank them there. Using 177 in this argument means you aren't being intelectually honest.

[Cdizzle]

I would let you call the #177 team in the country "butt-stanky", but you have to ignore Texas A&M's last 2 games (wins over top 100 opponents) in order to rank them there. Using 177 in this argument means you aren't being intelectually honest.

Using a number that was the perception of the A&M team prior to the Tennessee game actually seems more honest. It should include the Arkansas win, which would put the RPI somewhere probably halfway between the 177 and 114 numbers being thrown around.

[Jamar Howard 4 President]

Cdizzle, I already addressed that in post #1663.