02-11-2014, 06:39 PM
The eternal Monty debate.....
BC, you may be right that a #1 seed getting to the FF is still perhaps beating the odds, but being a #2 seed, #1,#1,#8,#4, and #1 and only getting past the 1st weekend once is DEFINITELY performing below your seed.
I'm of the opinion that without Monty we probably wouldn't have gotten the regular season wins to earn those seeds in the first place, and in my ideal world Monty would've been the Stanford bball coach for life, but the evidence is pretty clear that we were not a great tournament team under Monty (still better to be a not great NCAA tournament team than a not great no-tournament team obviously).
BC, you may be right that a #1 seed getting to the FF is still perhaps beating the odds, but being a #2 seed, #1,#1,#8,#4, and #1 and only getting past the 1st weekend once is DEFINITELY performing below your seed.
I'm of the opinion that without Monty we probably wouldn't have gotten the regular season wins to earn those seeds in the first place, and in my ideal world Monty would've been the Stanford bball coach for life, but the evidence is pretty clear that we were not a great tournament team under Monty (still better to be a not great NCAA tournament team than a not great no-tournament team obviously).