The Official Beat the Saint Louis Billikens in Missouri Thread

Don't forget Indiana and Michigan.

VCU had a 9 pt lead on the Hoosiers with 4 minutes to go and Michigan sliced and diced the press but Shaka made no adjustments.

He made Mitch Mcgary look like Kevin Mchale.
That Michigan team went to the final, beat a one seed and throttled a three seed. They were pretty good and our beat down of Akron likely caught their attention. I wouldn’t give Shaka too much grief for that one
 
you do realize other fan base across the A10 and the nation are trashing VCU as a result of this parents conduct, right?

Her son represents the name on the front of the jersey and getting paid six figures for it.
We’ll bounce back.
 
How the heck we’re in the mix I have no idea lol


I’m usually in the pessimist crowd on these things and even I think in no way are we suddenly out of the at-large discussion. We were not going to go 15-1 in the conference regular season. A loss at St. Louis is not a bad loss (though they do kind of suck and had to play really well to beat us).

We can have one more road loss to a good team and probably be in with a good tournament performance. We may even be able to have 2 losses and still have a shot.
 
I'mm thinking about starting another 13 game winning streak thread. Unofficial, of course. darn top 25 votes.
 
We’ll be in the discussion but it’ll be tough. I mean which of those current last 4 in teams do we replace? Texas and UNC are unimpressive this year but they all have wins better than our best win. We’ll see how the rest of the season shakes out but I will expect the worst while hoping for the best
 
No PARENT brings on being trashed online by a team's fans. GTFO with that noise. Over the last 10 years it's not been widespread but clearly there. One could so easily list the affected parties and offenders. Most times it's purely narrative driven and furthered by immature people who obviously have a real hard time thinking and making fact based decisions for themselves. And it's affected the program. There's no excuse for it.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about over the last 10 years and how it would be any different than it is at any other successful program.

In the case of the the incident the other night, who brought this on their self? We’re not talking about conjecture here either. There are eyewitness accounts and video evidence.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting that the St. Louis fans don’t deserve their share of blame too.

Heck, if it was my son getting heckled like that I’d probably have gotten into it with the fans and caused trouble too. Regardless, it’s wrong, bad and embarrassing behavior and got us in the national media in a very negative way. The instigators and participants in the “brawl” deserve the criticism that they are getting here and elsewhere.

Some here were embarrassed when I wrote an angry e-mail to the USC coaches after the NSU kid backed out of his commitment to us. Well that’s nothing compared to this stuff that happened the other night.
 
I’m not sure what you’re talking about over the last 10 years and how it would be any different than it is at any other successful program.

In the case of the the incident the other night, who brought this on their self? We’re not talking about conjecture here either. There are eyewitness accounts and video evidence.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting that the St. Louis fans don’t deserve their share of blame too.

Heck, if it was my son getting heckled like that I’d probably have gotten into it with the fans and caused trouble too. Regardless, it’s wrong, bad and embarrassing behavior and got us in the national media in a very negative way. The instigators and participants in the “brawl” deserve the criticism that they are getting here and elsewhere.

Some here were embarrassed when I wrote an angry e-mail to the USC coaches after the NSU kid backed out of his commitment to us. Well that’s nothing compared to this stuff that happened the other night.
The brawl is over, it was tasteless, and yall are still on her bashing a lady who was charged by an opposing fan IN the visitor seating area directly behind VCU's bench. Anyone who has been to an away game knows what those sections are, and at home games you know where it is, too. If you need to see a still of it happening I'll post it again for you.

VCU coaches and assistant coaches know what happened. Biased fans are gum on my shoe.
 
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I don't know how many on this board has ever attended a game at Saint Louis, but I can tell you from personal experience there's a lot of alcohol flowing in that arena. They were selling alcohol long before we made it available at the Siegel Center. I have no idea what happened to cause the fight. I just know when I attended a VCU game there, a lot of their fans were lit before the game even started. Wouldn't be surprised if that contributed to the incident.
I've only been there once - about 20 years ago to take depositions. I can't remember being in a place that I wanted to leave more than St. Louis. Couldn't wait to get out of there. I can see why people who live there drink to excess.
 
Who did you recognize in the video that was involved in the scuffle? It seems you indicated VCU player parents. Which player’s parents were acting in an embarrassing manner at Loyola and taunting opposing fans to their faces while seeking out confrontation? If they can be identified, Ed and the athletic department need to be informed to prevent recurrence of this in the future. It could also potentially mitigate the risk of Ed and the athletic department being sued and having to pay someone who is an innocent bystander lots of money who gets injured in future scuffles if this egregious and seemingly recurring problem is not quickly addressed. I saw several elderly people that were sitting in that section as innocent bystanders simply trying to watch the game catch strays (elbows, shoves, bodies falling on them). Seems this shouldn’t be occurring at an NCAA basketball game. If families cannot control their emotions and seek out confrontation and taunt opposing fans purposefully, that is a direct violation of NCAA spectator protocol, policies, and procedures and those families should be banned from watching games live if they cannot correct their behavior to align with simple NCAA event spectator rules.
If you watch the video, Ed was right nearby so he should know better than anyone.
 
Zero hustle, horrible shot selection, he’s embarrassing from the stripe. Maybe his wallet got so fat it’s thrown off his balance or added so much additional weight he can only watch loose balls?
Embarrassing from the stripe? He wasn't like last early in the year, but he's shooting 81% from line in A10 play.lol
 
The brawl is over, it was tasteless, and yall are still on her bashing a lady who was charged by an opposing fan IN the visitor seating area directly behind VCU's bench. Anyone who has been to an away game knows what those sections are, and at home games you know where it is, too. If you need to see a still of it happening I'll post it again for you.

VCU coaches and assistant coaches know what happened. Biased fans are gum on my shoe.

Sure, buddy.

Everyone else is “biased”. Except for you, right?

As for your visiting section comment, there is really no such thing. There are usually a few rows or so of family, surrounded by home fans and folks who buy tickets from stubhub. It’s usually a big mix in those sections. Like you would know that though.

As for your blurry screenshot, not a single person cared when you first posted it. It showed nothing. Not to mention you have no earthly clue what “physical evidence” actually means. Hint: what you posted isn’t it.

Lastly, you have no idea what happened at either of these Midwest games. Some of us were direct witnesses to it. We should expect better of our fans, not defend bad behavior.

As for you claiming what coaches know or believe, I call BS. You don’t know a thing. You’d be pretty darn surprised if you saw what Ed emailed me directly yesterday. Stay in your lane.
 
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