uniftw wrote:Cdizzle wrote:Cdizzle wrote:Nice. I like it when people are realistic about what their team is. Makes it so much easier to believe when they claim some player is going to make a big impact.
Actually, I was mostly referencing a poster who recently said this:
"We know WSU has depth. We know ISU has a good core, and UNI always has athletes."
UNI always has a lot of things. Good discipline. Good coaching. Good execution. Good fundamentals. Decent to good shooters. And that's fine. That works for them. But to pretend they are a team of high-end athletes (comparatively speaking at the D1 basketball level, of course) is ridiculous.
Yet UNI has been the most consistent (one of the 2 or 3 most at the least) program over the last decade or so.
Athletes don't make a great team if the athletes aren't anything other than just that, athletes.
WSU has had better "athletes" that UNI the entire time Marshall/Jacobson have been around, yet Jake has a winning record against Marshall (I believe). Bradley, MSU, IlSU, etc... all have better "athletes" yet I wouldn't ever take their players/program ever UNI's.
I'm pretty sure you missed the entire point of my post, which was
1. Rather complimentary of UNI
2. There is more than one way to win basketball games.
3. Some people are delusional and call UNI's teams athletic. And I don't take those people's opinions very seriously.
But I can't tell for sure. Things like "(one of the 2 or 3 most at the least)" make it quite difficult to tell what the hell you are talking about.
