If I were to see the NIT as an accomplishment, then I should start accepting all mediocracy as acceptable acomplishments.
That is a choice you can make. It's an overreaction and lacks perspective, but it's your choice.
Cheers.
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If I were to see the NIT as an accomplishment, then I should start accepting all mediocracy as acceptable acomplishments.
That is a choice you can make. It's an overreaction and lacks perspective, but it's your choice.
Cheers.![]()
I didn't get to where I am today because I saw coming short of my goals as an accomplishment. On the other hand, I don't see these moments as a complete failures. Just stones on a path.
Got have smaller step goals in-between your big ones.
Maybe that's how you run things, but I prefer going ALL IN.
Should Fred Hoiberg be fired or otherwise reprimanded if ISU doesn't make the NCAA tourney this year?
I didn't get to where I am today because I saw coming short of my goals as an accomplishment. On the other hand, I don't see these moments as a complete failures. Just stones on a path.
Of course not. That is just a dumb question.
Listen, as I previously stated, until this team has 7 conference losses, I will not even mutter the words "NIT is an accomplishment." Now, if ISU starts 0-10 in conference play and then decides to go on a run, I will call the NIT an accomplishment because they would have been dead in the water, and somehow found salvation. At this point in the season, that isn't the case.
All that really matters is what the players and coaches feel is an accomplishment for this year. They are the only ones that know what their goals are and how they will define success for this season. When it's all said and done, if the team feels like they has a successful season, that's good enough for me.
I'm sure the team couldn't care less if Joe Blow fan thinks they had a crappy year. I don't know why fans would even have goals of their own for a team for which they cheer, but that's a topic for a different discussion.
Of course it's a dumb question, but it follows perfectly from what you've said above.
And this is even dumber...
So you believe salvation and redemption are dumb. Gotcha.
At this point in the season, if any of our players/coaches are looking at the NIT as an accomplishment, then
A) They are looking too far ahead
B) They are giving up
I don't think either option is the case. This discussion can rapidly change in the next month, for better or for worse.
No...just the convoluted way in which you are trying to use those concepts to determine what should be considered an accomplishment for the 2010-2011 ISU MBB team.
I meant at the end of the year. I doubt that the team will evaluate itself until after the season is over.
Let us play another hypothetical for a moment. Under my previous hypothetical, ISU starts 0-10, only to salvage what they can and grab a NIT bid. Let us say starting tomorrow, ISU wins their next 7 games. Is the NIT still an accomplishment, or just the result of a missed opportunity?
Read what I posted earlier in the thread...
http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum...-next-up-baylor-12-3-2-0-a-3.html#post2094905
If ISU makes the NIT, it will be an accomplishment, no matter how the conference season starts or ends.
Okay, back to Baylor boys.
To avoid jinxing our guys I'll take Baylor in a nailbiter:
75-73
We shall disagree. The NIT is never an accomplishment. It is where teams go when they just couldn't get the job done. The only benefit from the NIT is the extra practices. As much as I enjoyed the Cyclone NIT run a few years ago, in the end it was still just a NIT run.
This team, after what this program has been through? Accomplishment. Make a poll if you want.