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I always say no that we shouldn't go to one of these lower tier tourneys, but I feel like DA deserves it. Aside from today, he had one helluva 2nd half of the season. We will miss him sorely.
I really hope they do. Artis deserves to play again and it doesn't hurt to play more games for the other players.
Good effort by Floyd and the TEAM this year but I say we need a new coach.
We have a damn good coach what we need is for him to adapt and keep his players.... I mean come on imagine if we had hunter lee Moore and Wynn still on this team??? Although I think Wynn was a problem.... but the other two we would have been right there!! We went from 3-12 to 15-17 that's 12-5 and three of those losses were by what 5 points??? So this is to a pain free offseason sooner or later it has to happen!!!
Hate to break this to you Purple, but if we did have a damn good coach, why did we end up 15-17? Has this damn good coach won anything here in 7 years?
I will give them all props. The coaches and players could have packed it in early. They turned it around. BUT.....15-17....
#firefloyd
I will give them all props. The coaches and players could have packed it in early. They turned it around. BUT.....15-17....
#firefloyd
The question Coach Floyd should ask the team when they get back to El Paso is if they want to keep going. I mean WANT it. Winners keep playing, losers go home. If they are really hungry to keep playing, accept whatever tournament will have us. Otherwise, we call this season a wrap and look forward to next year. BTW, this was still a good turn around from the first half of the season.
May I ask where this talk about the CIT is coming from? Do we even know if they would even take a 15-17 UTEP team?
If the invitation does come, the answer is easy for me: do the players want to play in that tournament? If the answer is "Yes", then we should play. Otherwise we shouldn't. Simple.
If the invitation does come, the answer is easy for me: do the players want to play in that tournament? If the answer is "Yes", then we should play. Otherwise we shouldn't. Simple.
I say yes and get the opportunity to keep playing as a reward for turning things around, giving DA more games and a chance to end with a winning record
I disagree. When you let the players run ANY team you have chaos. Players play and do what they're told. When control is relinquished you have overprivileged types complaining when a decision is made that they don't like
CBI is the only one they can play in. I have a fewlingbof invited they'll do it. It'll help springboard this team into next year after the turnaround. At least 5or6 key players will be returning
It's not up to us whether they accept if invited. Not up to us to determine whether they even deserve a bid or not. The players and coaches will decide yes or no IF invited.
With this circus of a season in the books it's tough to make an intelligent evaluation of worthyness. It was so much fun (last part of the season) until yesterday which let all the wind out of our sails. So now; do they let the season end on a sour note or try again to salvage some pride by going to post season? I feel they will accept if invited.
They're probably not saying anything because there's nothing to say. Those 3 teams have a credible reason to publicly turn it down. A 14-17 team with a 222 RPI does not. The season's over.
I forget which Oregon team it was but didn't the team we lost to in the cbi final have a losing record going in?
Last season they had three teams including a 14-18 UNC Greensboro.
2015 one team.
2014 two teams.
2013 two teams.
2012 one team.
2011 one team.
2010 one team.
2009 one team. A 13-17 won the championship.
2008 one team a 13-19.
Yeah nothing new for the CBI.
I can't believe it has been ten years since this tournament started.
Wow. If UTEP gets invited, this is just like a trophy for participating. Cool!
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It's hilarious that there is somebody on Twitter that thinks UTEP has a chance to play in the NIT.
Cbi tournament good chance for continued growth for this team, but a disgrace for this college to drop to this level
The strange part about it is that the individual who said UTEP to the NIT is a local tv sports anchor. It wasn't some anonymous person.
Not in the CBI or CIT. Either we turned the CBI down or the winning record meant something.....5th Place Rice is in the field.
http://www.collegeinsider.com/tournament/2016.php
http://www.collegeinsider.com/tournament/2016.php
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I'm not surprised at all that LA Tech didn't make the NIT. My guess is ODU and Marshall felt they would lose money playing in the CBI. Who knows?
Correct. CBI and CIT are basically pay to play tournaments when you get right down to it. The upside is what happened under Barbee at UTEP who 1)used the tournaments to develop the team. They made the championship against Oregon State in a stunning loss as OSU took over late in the game against a slightly more athletic UTEP squad and won 2 out of 3 series.2) UTEP fans were still a little high off the short lived BG era and Randy Culpepper had thoughts of Jeep Jackson (R.I.P) and Luster Goodwin dancing in our head and fans felt those 80's early 90's days were coming back. Doing those lower grade tournaments were a brilliant tatical move for Barbee's career.
Then CTF was hired and former players (like Fred Reynolds) were actually telling the local media UTEP will be back in championship form.
Then CTF was hired and former players (like Fred Reynolds) were actually telling the local media UTEP will be back in championship form.
D.A. needs to get ready to take his game to the next level. I can definitely see him becoming an overseas star playing Europe because his skill set is that solid. And who knows what it can lead to? The NBA signs many many euro players to short term contracts.
Losing season, an overall losing record and no accomplishment thanks to Floyd.
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