Screw the NIT (that's if we're invited)
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It sounds as though we are on the NIT bubble....barely, as we have a losing record without the win against Div. II NGU.
Experience fir the younger players.
I have mixed emotions! If the players want in, I can support them. But honestly it's hollow and useless as far as building the program.
While I agree the NIT is a disappointment and pretty meaningless, there are a few reasons I’d be interested-
1) In general, more chances to watch our team play
2) More opportunities to watch Chris Silva play
3) Tournament-style experience for our young guys
4) Another shot at Clemson??
1) In general, more chances to watch our team play
2) More opportunities to watch Chris Silva play
3) Tournament-style experience for our young guys
4) Another shot at Clemson??
I get there are mixed feelings about the NIT, but are we really in a position as a program that we can act like this is beneath us ?
I must be the only fan that loved winning the NIT.
You are correct of course! But that's my issue with Frank Martin! This is year seven. What are we? A NIT bubble team? That's just awful! But support the players either way.
Just asking ... Why, in the world, would our basketball team EVER need
Tournament-style experience???
Not to worry, ... We're not gettting a Nobody's Interested Tournament bid.
Tournament-style experience? You mean sort of like the post-season experience that we just got in football? 
What young players? They're all hurt or ineligible. We've got 7 healthy players; 3 are graduating (Gravett, Silva, Campbell), and another 2 have plenty of experience (Haase, Kotsar). That leaves Bryant, who has played all year, and Frink.
Yes!!! You are!!!
And you have an excellent memory, I might add. What year was that? Odom wasn't the coach, was he??? I thought that we fired him after 7 years of non-performance.
Being in it is a mark of falling short.
Yeah, it was Odom. He owned the NIT. Those were lean times for USC sports, so I took what I could get.
Nope. All fans enjoyed those wins. Any Gamecock who didn’t enjoy watching us win all those games is either a spoiled douchebag or not a real fan.
I’ll take an NIT win over sitting home doing nothing any day!
GO COCKS!
The NIT. If the players want to play some more,let them play. Not that anybody will really care, so it hurts nobody. I have heard the argument that it is great experience for younger players. Well, have heard that song and dance before during the Dave Odom era. That the extra games,and NIT success, was a springboard for the future. Where did that school of thought lead? To another NIT to be followed by Dave Odoms eventual firing. Bottom line is if you can't be one of the best 68 teams in the country, just pack up the uniforms and wait until next year.
I hope we get an NIT bid, but with us needing that D2 win to get to .500, I don't think that will count. I'd love to see them play some more.
We spend $900 billion a year on basketball and football and we have a terrible ROI. The only facts as I see them are:
1) Neither program is anywhere near where they think they are as far as postseason play.
2) We better get our arses to the NIT if invited.
2) We should’ve gone to the Belk Bowl on our knees, thanking our lucky stars for any decent bowl invite.
Who tf we think we are sometimes is just downright entertaining.
1) Neither program is anywhere near where they think they are as far as postseason play.
2) We better get our arses to the NIT if invited.
2) We should’ve gone to the Belk Bowl on our knees, thanking our lucky stars for any decent bowl invite.
Who tf we think we are sometimes is just downright entertaining.
Polish your shoes, take your dog for a walk, clean your oven, call an older relative on the phone, paint the ceiling, vacuum the car, tighten loose screws around the house, organize your junk drawer, cook a special meal, donate clothes you haven't worn in two years to charity, or help a neighbor cause we ain't going to the NIT this year.
You literally just described my day. And no, we ain't going to the Odom invitational.
It's the 'Losers' Tournament'. Frank needs to use the time spent preparing and playing in that useless endeavor to RECRUIT!
Not sure he really knows how to recruit. His best recruiter who he brought from KSU left to go to Oklahoma State within a year or two after getting here. The other recruiter he had a KSU stayed there for a while.
Yeah, ‘cause that’s what a 17 year old recruit wants to hear...
“Postseason? Well, we might make it to the NCAA but if not, you just go back to classes while I make some phone calls. Sure, we could get invited to the NIT, potentially play 5 more games and have a chance to play at Madison Square Garden where we’ve cut down the nets 3 times, but that’s for losers. I mean, we’re a perennial powerhouse so they always want us in postseason play. Having that upper hand, we’re going to make them put us in the field of 64 or else we’re just not gonna play. That’ll show them, right? And it also gives you more study time. Sound good?”
First, the 68 best teams are not in the dance. There are automatic bids to conferences that are not top level, not even the best teams in their sorry conferences. So it isn't the losers tournament. It also gives additional chances to be on tv. That is called exposure. Finally, if the players want to go, I am all in favor of it. The FB players last year did not want to be in Charlotte and that showed quite well. It will be fun to see what Silva might have done without all the SEC fouls called on him. He reminds me of the Javan guy on Duke. He gets near someone and gets a foul called. Let em play.
It’s a complete waste of time and offers no competitive advantage in 2019. None. If anything it’s a visible reminder to recruits that you missed the big dance.
OP that`s your sorry opinion. That was a lot of fun - defeated Maryland, Miami, who else St. Johns. Finished #1 out of 32. And did it back to back. Sorry you couldn`t get any joy out of it like the team, the coaches and a lot of our fans did. If we get it, hope you don`t bother to watch.
Another opportunity to say what could have been if not for injuries and bad calls
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