Aces1982 wrote:
1989....what does that have to do with anything? That is like saying Cubs fans had no say so or didn't know what they were talking about because the team they liked hadn't won a World Series in 300 years. Very childish and pretty stupid way of thinking.
The same goes with the scheduling remark. Did UE fans make the schedule? Again a very immature statement.
Maybe someday you will learn to have a grown up conversation.
Certain people of certain fanbases think since their program has had recent success they can walk around like God and post like they actually had anything to do with their success.
1. You don't know the answer, so why should your opinion on anything be trusted....off by about 2 decades.
"Recent" success? Please.
In the last 13 seasons,
HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN AS UNBORN/BRAND NEW BABY, number of years UNI has
-7 NCAA appearances
-Won at least one game int he NCAA tournament in the last three NCAA trips
-Been ranked in the AP top 25 more times than anyone currently in the conference not named WSU combined....including a top 10 ranking
- 10 seasons of at least 20 wins (2 of the 3 were Jake's first 2 seasons in which he had 36 wins in those two years)
- More 30 win seasons than anyone in the conference not named WSU has combined
- Been in a post season tournament every year but one, and they turned down a tournament that year (2013-14)
- 7 conference titles (combined regular season/post season)
- Hired a head coach who is already 7th in league history in conference wins wins (114...Gregg Marshall is 6th at 117...Barry is 5th at 125) and 7th in all time wins (just 2 shy of moving into 6th and will move into 4th this year...Gregg Marshall is 10 a head. Once they get to 3rd and 4th it's a probably another 3 or 4 years to get to Dana Altman at 327)
So yeah, I guess if you want to count the last 13 years as "recent' and unstained success, then sure. Us UNI fans are guilty as charged. You know what? UNI fans did have a hand in the sustained success? Why? In the last 7 years we've donated enough to take our coach from 250K per year to a contract that will pay him $1,000,000 per year. That is all 100% privately funded by UNI fans and donors. I don't know the details of Marshall's contract, but I'd bet it's similar for funding. UNI is setting record fund raising levels every single year.
Maybe if other schools had fans willing to do the same and put that kind of money into the program we might see more than one school per decade east of the Mississippi make the tournament.