Why in the world is FM and RT letting this basketball game go on tonight?

[RileyCock]

Because they don't give a SHIT! I'm sick of Frank Martin and Ray Tanner! Somebody Please tell me that they at least made some effort to contact Clempzin about the possibility of rescheduling. If not, both these clowns need to go!

Reschedule to when? They said it "can't be rescheduled."

It looks like the earliest the guys can play would be 26 December. Clemson has Duke 29 December and Florida State on 2 January. We play South Carolina State on 29 December and Auburn on 4 January. Clemson and South Carolina would both have to agree to cram the game in before 29 December and lose their Christmas break. Why would Clemson do that?

It was a Quad 1 away game against an ACC team. Even losing the game improves USC's NET ranking, this is why 13 and 14 loss Syracuse teams always find their way into the tournament -- they pile up Quad 1 games.

 

[Cybercock]

Reschedule to when? They said it "can't be rescheduled."

It looks like the earliest the guys can play would be 26 December. Clemson has Duke 29 December and Florida State on 2 January. We play South Carolina State on 29 December and Auburn on 4 January. Clemson and South Carolina would both have to agree to cram the game in before 29 December and lost their Christmas break. Why would Clemson do that?

It was a Quad 1 away game against an ACC team. Even losing the game improves USC's NET ranking, this is why 13 and 14 loss Syracuse teams always find their way into the tournament -- they pile up Quad 1 games.

Then dont play it.

 

[RileyCock]

Then dont play it.

So, you want to hurt our NET rankings rather than just playing the game? We already have a remote chance of making the tournament and you want to make it harder?

 

[Cybercock]

So, you want to hurt our NET rankings rather than just playing the game? We already have a remote chance of making the tournament and you want to make it harder?

In my opinion, and others may disagree, not losing to Clemson is just as important as making the dance.

 

[RileyCock]

In my opinion, and others may disagree, not losing to Clemson is just as important as making the dance.

I guess that's where a lot of people would disagree. I don't care what Clemson people think and I refuse to include any toxic Clemson people in my life.

 

[Cockopotamus]

I don't think another team in the country would have played this game today. Just don't see why you'd want to give your rival an almost automatic win. This is just plain stupid.

You basically just described why we didn't play them in football last year

 

[Lurker123]

Did a brief search and didn't see it, but isn't there a preset limit of cases to cause a postponent or cancellation?

The one case I read referred to PAC 12 rules about agreeing to postponement, so that would obviously be different for inter-conference games.

 

[JandDSC]

I hope we have players that want to compete and believe they can compete. Hell, if I was on that team I’d want to play. I don’t get how this is so hard to understand. I guarantee you our guys want to play. Maybe somebody will step up given an unexpected opportunity.

If RT, FM, and the rest of our team are afraid to compete…screw all of ‘em.

Say what you want but if the taters had half their team out with COVID you can bet your sweet ass they would ask for the game to be postponed and RT and FM would have complied -

 

[RileyCock]

Say what you want but if the taters had half their team out with COVID you can bet your sweet ass they would ask for the game to be postponed and RT and FM would have complied -

If it was at USC, Clemson would have been dumb as crap for doing it. We are likely to be an away Quad 1 team and Clemson dances on the bubble themselves every year.

I think you guys are more caught up in your personal Clemson battles than the risk-reward of the game overall.

 

[Cybercock]

Interesting that FSU, who we played Sunday, has covid issues and canceled their game.

 

[SweetgrassVodka]

If Clempson refused to reschedule it, the game should be cancelled and then let them take the bad press for being chicken to reschedule and insisting on playing us with half the team out. This will be another loss to CU in a men's sport. People that have said these games cannot be postponed or rescheduled are wrong. Syracuse has already reschedule or postponed games vs Georgia Tech, Lehigh and Cornell.

Simple. Ray Tanner and Frank Martin are two pathetic losers.

 

[DarkCock]

Frank's got a lot of problems, but this ain't one of them. The COVID policy is stupid. It's not his fault.

 

[Gamecockdvw]

Its not political and it didnt go over my head.
Its a virus. It makes people sick. It makes people die and doesn't pick political parties.
Not sure how you get political out of that.
As far as the moderators policing "crap" take a look at the unimformed pro vax crowd who consistently call out other posters with vulgarity and demeaning remarks and tell me who should be moderated.
If a vax or a mask saved other people's lives i would gladly do both. Sadly they dont.

"It's not political"
"Uninformed provaxx crowd"
There it is. What an absolute clown show this place is becoming.

 

[SCGCock07]

Why should anyone be surprised? Nobody in USC's administration seems to give a damn about losing to Clemson and we haven't since 1892.

 

[RileyCock]

Interesting that FSU, who we played Sunday, has covid issues and canceled their game.

FSU cancelled their game against #306 North Florida. They cancelled a Quad 4 game that would not help their Quad rating. The only reason teams schedule Quad 4 games is to get their team work and get their wins over 20. If you have COVID issues then playing a Quad 4 team is meaningless.

I understand this is part of your "but it's losing to Clemson" mentality. I get it. I don't agree, but I get it. With that in mind, don't try and find other scenarios to justify your mentality when the actual teams don't think the same way you do.

 

[RileyCock]

Why should anyone be surprised? Nobody in USC's administration seems to give a damn about losing to Clemson and we haven't since 1892.

Well, when teams start hanging beat their rival banners up in the arena instead of conference championships and tournament bid banners then teams will catch up with your mentality.

 

[Thirdcatgy]

Frank Martin is very aware he is on the hot seat. If there had been a logical avenue other than playing that game, he would have taken it. If you listen to his post game comments, he reinforces this fact. Please stop projecting on Tanner for every single thing that doesn't go our way.