Are we locked into the #4 Seed VS UNLV now?

[307bball]

Nah I’m Scottish. Braveheart.

For those who don’t know, losing to a team every time on their home court since 1993 is a word called a “trend.” A trend is the general course or prevailing tendency. This could also be called a “pattern” or “theme.”

When determining what a most likely outcome is, one can rely on statistical and historical data, or as we discussed earlier, “trends.” If you forgot what that means already, jump back up to the first paragraph. For instance, if a team hasn’t defeated another team on its home court since Bill Clinton’s first term, the data would suggest that said team LIKELY won’t defeat the other team on its home court when they play again on that court.

These are not hard and fast rules. Team A could certainly defeat Team B on their home court, but history, or the “trend” tells us the opposite is more likely. If this isn’t clear I can explain further. Just let me know.

Somewhere, William Wallace, all five pieces of him, just rolled over in his grave.

Could somebody enlighten us relative newcomers what is going on in this thread...I feel like I'm missing some background.

From what I can piece together... SDpoke is not confident that we can win against UNLV in the opening round of the tournament (a sentiment I share). SDpoke then says that the reason he is not confident has to do with a poor track record against UNLV in recent and not-so recent history (I agree that the history is terrible at the T&M but that is not the reason I'm lacking confidence). At this point the conversation devolves into areas that I can't understand involving imperialist map-making and Braveheart. What is the backstory here? Am I missing an inside joke?

You must have missed the past 10+ years of SDPoke advocating for Wyoming to pack it in and drop to FCS in football.

mmm I see. I'm not very good at connecting individual posters to their views. I've only been "active" on this board for the last three years or so and I don't think I'm as active as a lot of guys on here. I figured there was some history I was unaware of.

Probably a topic for a different thread but... are there views or opinions that cowboys fans should not hold? I guess it would be weird to be a fan of both CSU and Wyoming. That is the main one that comes to mind. Is it so offensive to advocate dropping a division in football? I'm not in favor of it but I don't think I would revoke somebodies fan card over it.

 

[SDPokeFan]

Nah I’m Scottish. Braveheart.

For those who don’t know, losing to a team every time on their home court since 1993 is a word called a “trend.” A trend is the general course or prevailing tendency. This could also be called a “pattern” or “theme.”

When determining what a most likely outcome is, one can rely on statistical and historical data, or as we discussed earlier, “trends.” If you forgot what that means already, jump back up to the first paragraph. For instance, if a team hasn’t defeated another team on its home court since Bill Clinton’s first term, the data would suggest that said team LIKELY won’t defeat the other team on its home court when they play again on that court.

These are not hard and fast rules. Team A could certainly defeat Team B on their home court, but history, or the “trend” tells us the opposite is more likely. If this isn’t clear I can explain further. Just let me know.

Somewhere, William Wallace, all five pieces of him, just rolled over in his grave.

Could somebody enlighten us relative newcomers what is going on in this thread...I feel like I'm missing some background.

From what I can piece together... SDpoke is not confident that we can win against UNLV in the opening round of the tournament (a sentiment I share). SDpoke then says that the reason he is not confident has to do with a poor track record against UNLV in recent and not-so recent history (I agree that the history is terrible at the T&M but that is not the reason I'm lacking confidence). At this point the conversation devolves into areas that I can't understand involving imperialist map-making and Braveheart. What is the backstory here? Am I missing an inside joke?

You must have missed the past 10+ years of SDPoke advocating for Wyoming to pack it in and drop to FCS in football.

mmm I see. I'm not very good at connecting individual posters to their views. I've only been "active" on this board for the last three years or so and I don't think I'm as active as a lot of guys on here. I figured there was some history I was unaware of.

Probably a topic for a different thread but... are there views or opinions that cowboys fans should not hold? I guess it would be weird to be a fan of both CSU and Wyoming. That is the main one that comes to mind. Is it so offensive to advocate dropping a division in football? I'm not in favor of it but I don't think I would revoke somebodies fan card over it.

The football board is a whole different animal. Just be ok with 6-6 and the Lysol Bowl and you’ll be just fine.

 

[WyomingAgJ]

Many projections now showing us as a 12 seed and/or last 4 in.

I think UNLV is a must win to make the tournament. Lose that and I think some other bubble teams will jump us

 

[Wyovanian]

Nah I’m Scottish. Braveheart.

For those who don’t know, losing to a team every time on their home court since 1993 is a word called a “trend.” A trend is the general course or prevailing tendency. This could also be called a “pattern” or “theme.”

When determining what a most likely outcome is, one can rely on statistical and historical data, or as we discussed earlier, “trends.” If you forgot what that means already, jump back up to the first paragraph. For instance, if a team hasn’t defeated another team on its home court since Bill Clinton’s first term, the data would suggest that said team LIKELY won’t defeat the other team on its home court when they play again on that court.

These are not hard and fast rules. Team A could certainly defeat Team B on their home court, but history, or the “trend” tells us the opposite is more likely. If this isn’t clear I can explain further. Just let me know.

Somewhere, William Wallace, all five pieces of him, just rolled over in his grave.

Could somebody enlighten us relative newcomers what is going on in this thread...I feel like I'm missing some background.

From what I can piece together... SDpoke is not confident that we can win against UNLV in the opening round of the tournament (a sentiment I share). SDpoke then says that the reason he is not confident has to do with a poor track record against UNLV in recent and not-so recent history (I agree that the history is terrible at the T&M but that is not the reason I'm lacking confidence). At this point the conversation devolves into areas that I can't understand involving imperialist map-making and Braveheart. What is the backstory here? Am I missing an inside joke?

You must have missed the past 10+ years of SDPoke advocating for Wyoming to pack it in and drop to FCS in football.

mmm I see. I'm not very good at connecting individual posters to their views. I've only been "active" on this board for the last three years or so and I don't think I'm as active as a lot of guys on here. I figured there was some history I was unaware of.

Probably a topic for a different thread but... are there views or opinions that cowboys fans should not hold? I guess it would be weird to be a fan of both CSU and Wyoming. That is the main one that comes to mind. Is it so offensive to advocate dropping a division in football? I'm not in favor of it but I don't think I would revoke somebodies fan card over it.

He's a quintessential surrender monkey.

 

[seattlecowboy]

UNLV opened as a 2 point favorite but it has swung 3 points and Wyoming is favored by 1 point now.

 

[bladerunnr]

I like us in this spot. We've had a little rest and we'll have (hopefully) lots of our fans there. I think Ike has a big game.

 

[seattlecowboy]

I like us in this spot. We've had a little rest and we'll have (hopefully) lots of our fans there. I think Ike has a big game.

I like us in this spot as well. Last time we played UNLV it was our 4th game in 7 days after having played CSU and SDSU, two really tough games then having to go to Vegas. We played right with them the whole game until the last couple of minutes. We missed a bunch of easy layups.

This time we aren’t having to play a bunch of games right before hand and sole focus can be on them. The court will be different, the fan sizes will be a lot different. Linder will know what adjustments to make with that much time to prepare. The fact the point spread has swung 3 points this early in the week to Wyoming favored is a big deal as well.