MVC Games 12/4

[E-Villan]

Nice job Ramblers!!

Looks like the Valley is ahead with the Creighton-Loyola swap. A couple of more years and this might look like the most lopsided swap involving a Chicago team since Brock-Broglio, except the Chicago team comes out on top in this one!

[glm38]

Not sure if the Bears can hang on but they look like a different team the last 2 games.

Love it that Loyola beat Creighton.

[goramblers2011]

Great wins by Loyola and MSU.

Just when things look bleak...

[Play Angry]

I wasn't sure if Creighton basketball still had its own message board or if it had finally been swallowed by a forum devoted to sniffing one's own farts while lighting their long-resented stepfather's money on fire, so I wandered over there to take a quick look. It still exists in case you were curious!

What I saw SHOCKED me to say the least. The same posters who argued so vociferously on this fine site that long-cherished Coach McDermott would not let their squad of savvy, "jumping, defense and dunking are overrated" upstarts slip into the abyss following his progeny's graduation seem to be jumping ship.

I know what you are thinking. Can this be? We were told so emphatically by such, ahem, hefty posters that prediction of CU's decline on here was an unadulterated FARCE.

As recently as February, 2014 on MVCFans.com (addressed to a WSU fan for some reason):

I'll be back in a month to see where our 2 teams are sitting from the eyes of the American public. Its not your style to research any facts heaven for bid, but I think CU will be OK with the current crop of recruits/redshirts/returners.

However, this same poster today on the future acquisition target for FartSniffinWhileBurninBenjamins.com (link: http://www.bluejayunderground.com/viewt ... &start=190):

Boys, see you when we get a new regime. I'm done.

?????

Other former patrons of this fine site had similar albeit less blatantly bandwagon sentiments:

By no means am I in panic mode, but I'm starting to get concerned Mac is in over his head.

Without his all-world son, he has had a pretty bad stretch of 7 or so years in major conference basketball.

I guess the writers were correct, 9th place looks about right. We all ate the hype. How many years of 9th place finishes can fans endure?

We suck. The future sucks. Hard to recruit when you lose to the likes of North Texas.

While I have redacted the names of these fine posters so that they avoid shame when running into other CU "fans" hurriedly putting on their Cornhusker starter jackets at the neighborhood La Madeleine, the groupthink is clearly on the downtrend in Omaha.

I think I speak for all us when I say this really is a shame. Prayers for Creighton.

[Championz]

Hahaha, way to go Ramblers!! I love it!

Looks like the better team/program won. You can just see the sea of Red shedding off those BJ jackets as we speak. Freaking awesome!!!

[Play Angry]

Nice job MSU! Definitely did not see that one coming.

[Wufan]

Great wins for Loyola and MSU (but for different reasons)!

[Khan4Cats]

Well, that sucked. Richmond shoots almost 54% for the game, 52% from 3 and beats UNI 82-67. Game wasn't really that close as Richmond pretty much out-everythinged UNI. No energy from the Panthers, Washpun was 4-12 from the field and was keyed on heavily by the Spider match-up zone defense. Hopefully Richmond will continue to have more up games than down from here on out as they have had good wins and some odd losses.

[Khan4Cats]

Congrats to Loyola and MSU for good wins. Figured SIU should handle North Texas after seeing them Monday night. Good luck to the rest of the Valley teams this evening.

[Championz]

UNI got beat pretty handily against Richmond, 82-67. I don't think UNI led the game at all and was trailing around 20 a lot of the second half.

That hurts a bit.