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01-10-2014, 02:47 PM
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CBS Sports Conference Games To Watch?
CBS Sports' Jeff Borzello has listed "Mark your calendar: 30 games to watch in conference play", and while he list VCU at UMass and VCU at Saint Louis, as games to watch, he fails to mention either of two UD/SLU games or the fact that the Flyers host SLU, VCU, GW, UMass, Saint Joes, Richmond, and La Salle, all top 90 teams, at UD Arena. Not to mention all the other match-ups he doesn't list within the A10. Given that both UD and GW are currently ranked higher in RPI than VCU or SLU, and he makes no mention of these other games, tells me built-in bias still exist where the Flyers are concerned. I mean, if UD holds court, a tall order mind you, at the arena, we will have collected wins against the other eight best teams in the conference; and yet not even hosting the same teams of SLU, VCU, or UMass, warrants his approval as a conference game to watch within a conference in which most pundits are thinking will have four or five NCAA Teams. Wow, that's some nonsense if there ever was any. It is as if the Bracketology projections don't even exist to him.
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01-10-2014, 03:35 PM
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This team doesn't deserve the respect until it is earned. If all goes as we hope this year and they improve next year, the program will start getting the respect we've all been clamoring for all these many years.
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01-10-2014, 04:33 PM
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We lost our guaranteed national broadcast when the X home game went away. They could count on the packed house being rabid and the result most often a Flyer win.
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01-10-2014, 04:40 PM
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Yes, but attendance and rabidness is not what Borzello is getting at. I agree with your thoughts about losing that great home rival game, but I don't see where has anything to do with this list of important conference games to watch.
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01-10-2014, 06:02 PM
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I don't think the Flyers are entering into A-10 leaders discussion much at all. I watched the URI- SLU game and the post game show where the A-10 was discussed. UD wasn't even in the conversation either during the game or the post game. No problem, win tomorrow and we do enter the conversation. Remember, we were picked 7th in the league pre-season. That doesn't get you much respect. Yes, we did have a nice tournament in Maui but home loss to USC and the road loss to Ill State didn't help us. Bottom line is just win and the rest will take care of itself.
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01-10-2014, 06:50 PM
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Big deal. Dayton neither deserves nor has earned the respect for auto-inclusion in that kind of article.
You want it changed?
Start with tomorrow's game. Go to the Arena, yell your fool head off, influence the refs to call some push-offs against Jett (because he. Does. It. Every. Single. Time. Down. The. Floor).
One step at a time.
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01-10-2014, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by San Diego Flyer
We lost our guaranteed national broadcast when the X home game went away. They could count on the packed house being rabid and the result most often a Flyer win.
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We play on ESPN2 tomorrow and ESPNU twice, one of those two at home. Doesn't look like we lost much.
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