Happens everywhere, someone get a bit of success and feels they are way more important than they really ever were....fanbase adopts a new level of what they thing they are rather than the reality. #notabluebloodyet
I don't see many critics around here expecting unrealistic things given the investment the school makes in basketball. Right now we pay the most and we're in last place. We've had terrible luck with injuries to be sure, but what concerns me most is what those injuries have revealed: Too many scholarship players on the roster who are not ready to compete in the MAC. The cold truth is that we've had ONE season-ending injury to a proven MAC player. Yes, others are playing hurt, and yes, I don't think expecting great things this year was ever realistic (I was hoping to be anywhere north of .500 in the MAC at the start of the season).
I just don't understand the Balkanization on this board. Too many people think you can either be cheerleading and full of hope or you're a horrible person who hates Saul, hates the players and hopes for failure.
I like Saul, I admire the effort the players are putting forth most nights, I hope for success, and I never call out individual players in posts (*I'm freer with thoughts in chats).
All that said, I'm utterly mystified at people who find criticizing the highest-paid man on campus unacceptable when he's yet to produce the results that he was hired to produce. As long as we're spending more than any peer, we should be in the top four in the MAC every year barring a coaching upheaval. He has one year to fix it, and I hope he does. Contrary to what the anonymous poster in the chatroom said, I don't hate Saul. I've met him multiple times and like everything about what he and his family bring to Athens and the school. But if you're not getting wins -- and he's not -- it's bad for your long-term career outlook. [/QUOTE]RJ
I am not sure if you are implying that I was talking about Ohio in the quote which read...I was applying it to Butler specifically but Illinois thinks they are on the level with Kansas, UCLA, Duke and Indiana and almost any fanbase that makes a tourney thinks they are then automatic qualifiers following a berth or two in the NCAA.
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Good entertainment even though Butler has become a bit "entitled" since their ascension from the Horizon. Happens everywhere, someone get a bit of success and feels they are way more important than they really ever were....fanbase adopts a new level of what they thing they are rather than the reality. #notabluebloodyet