Something a little different

[SmyrnaCatFan]

We play our fifth game tonight against a team that is likely drastically overmatched. Thinking about my own athletic experience as a good but not great middle distance runner and wondering about the players we've seen in the previous games. I'm confident that they love the sport, train their bodies exhaustively, and drill their individual and team skills daily and yet our team prevailed. So here is my question:

What do the players get from the experience of playing in a losing effort against UK?

Second question: Were their any opposing players you came away from the game with an unexpected appreciation for them?

Just wanting to challenge my own appreciation of this game, College Basketball.

 

[Lempface]

Given the chance right now, would you want to play against UK with some friends?

 

[Gimels_mustach]

I don't think they can get much losing to UK by 40. I think it's just a check for their athletics department.

 

[trueblujr2]

Well the School comes away with a fat paycheck that will be used to support their Athletic programs, so that's mostly the reason they are put into that position.

 

[Bkocats]

Well the School comes away with a fat paycheck that will be used to support their Athletic programs, so that's mostly the reason they are put into that position.

and until recently they did have a chance to win
Just saying

Also though..I feel like we shouldn’t take any team lightly. You never know what’ll happen
That’s one thing I love about Pope…he takes all comers seriously

 

[Bkocats]

Ok I’m gonna revise what I said in my last post
I didn’t realize JSU was so…bad
So yeah it’s the paycheck

 

[Aike]

You’re competing on every play. You can accumulate little wins along the way, even in a loss. And sometimes the stars align and you make history.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

It reminds me of a time in Jr. High Basketball in WV when we took a long bus ride to play an early season game at a school we didn't know.

It turns out it was a school for the physically and mentally challenged. I guarded a guy that must have been 35 years old. He was mentally challenged, incredibly hairy (all over) and probably weighed 250lbs (I was 185 at the time).

We beat them by a huge margin, but it was an eye-opening experience, and I was completely worn out after getting thrown around by that dude the whole game. He probably ended the game with 25 fouls (some of which were called).

 

[Lempface]

Ok I’m gonna revise what I said in my last post
I didn’t realize JSU was so…bad
So yeah it’s the paycheck

It's part of that HBCU Unity series Cal did.