Can we stop pretending that this is a good team?

[DBminer]

CUSA has been a one bid league for over a decade (even when Memphis was a member) and would be a zero bid league many years if not for the auto bid.

CUSA only has one top 100 team this year and Liberty stands no chance at getting an at large. The highest strength of schedule in the conference? SHSU. The parity of the conference this year isn't because the teams are good and equal. More like, they are all mediocre and equal with maybe Liberty being the tallest midget.

Are you forgetting the success this one bid league had I believe 4 years in a row … didn’t one of these teams from this one bid league make the final 4? Cusa is an average league but not a bad one…

 

[MinerManiac]

This team will exceed 20 wins this season. Golding isn’t going anywhere so cry harder

This post has a chance of not aging well. We currently have 17 wins, are .500 in conference, and have four games left. If we split those four games, which we have a pretty good chance of doing, we will finish with only 19 wins, and would require at least one win the CUSA Tournament to get to 20 wins. If we do worse than split, it would take more wins to get to MinerFan79's 20 wins. Obviously winning at least three of the four gets us there, but, as others have noted, winning 20 games with our easy OOC schedule is nothing special.

To be clear, I don't want the Miners to fail to win 20 games. My fondest hopes would be for them to win their next 13 straight games (yes, I know that there is no way this will happen).

I'll close with a question for MinerFan79: if Golding fails to win your predicted 20 games, will you admit that he needs to go? Even though I believe that this team probably represents the best that Golding will be able to do at UTEP, and that it just isn’t good enough, I'm already on record as saying that if Golding wins the CUSA Tournament that he's earned his chance to return.

 

[KaneFan29]

Are you forgetting the success this one bid league had I believe 4 years in a row … didn’t one of these teams from this one bid league make the final 4? Cusa is an average league but not a bad one…

They’re not in the league anymore.

3 tournaments ago, a small school made the Elite 8. Who were they and what conference are they in? Is anyone saying that conference is any good?