Smart enough to not specifically say this, but still unable to digest the fact Iowa knocked them off.
How about the fact that SC played every round up to the FF in their home state, while Iowa was on the road in Seattle for the SS and E8. I agree with you that she still can't get over the fact that they lost to a team with, in her mind, vastly inferior talent.Smart enough to not specifically say this, but still unable to digest the fact Iowa knocked them off.
Thank goodness Miami and Jim Larrañaga are not complaining that they got screwed by having to play UCONN in the Final Four on only 5 days rest, compared to the 6 days rest that UCONN got. It is also fortunate that San Diego State was somehow able to overcome the injustice of having to play in the Final Four on 5 days rest, when FAU got 6 days rest. Alternatively, perhaps FAU would have played better had they not had to deal with an additional day of distractions before the Final Four. Maybe the extra day of rest hurt FAU.It's a legitimate complaint, the brackets should be designed that teams get an equal numbers of days off before the elite 8 games. If the NCAA is more concerned about TV $, then they should be transparent about it.
Yeah and their travel was brutal. Give me a break. 20 year olds having 4 days off with basically no travel! Cry me a fricking river.If the Hawks had had a day less of rest then SC before playing them and lost, 97% of posters here would be bitching about it.
It's a legitimate complaint, the brackets should be designed that teams get an equal numbers of days off before the elite 8 games. If the NCAA is more concerned about TV $, then they should be transparent about it.
It appears that at least 97% of posters here disagree with you.If the Hawks had had a day less of rest then SC before playing them and lost, 97% of posters here would be bitching about it.
It's a legitimate complaint, the brackets should be designed that teams get an equal numbers of days off before the elite 8 games. If the NCAA is more concerned about TV $, then they should be transparent about it.
Dawn is a beaut. Just keeps adding to reasons to not like her.Weak. Give the other team credit, and move on.
Your comment is not legit because she's talking days off before final 4 and this "scheduling" has existed for mens and womens for what, 40 years?If the Hawks had had a day less of rest then SC before playing them and lost, 97% of posters here would be bitching about it.
It's a legitimate complaint, the brackets should be designed that teams get an equal numbers of days off before the elite 8 games. If the NCAA is more concerned about TV $, then they should be transparent about it.
They were outcoachedI don't think an extra days matters. That many days of rest, 3 to 4 days, is more than enough. They didn't lose because they were fatigued.
They were outcoached
Correct! ^^ She can sure assemble a roster of talented players, that's for sure. But I really cannot think of a time that one coach, Bluder, so thoroughly outcoached the other coach, Staley, AND they didn't adjust in game, as to that Iowa v. SC WBB game.Just such a bad look for her. Just take the L and move on. She's always saying she's not complaining or not making excuses but in fact that's all she's doing. You're the top program in the country. Act like it.
Not trying to pile on, but in the 2022 tournament Creighton played the first game in the first round and Iowa played the second. Iowa then had less than a 48 hour turnaround to the second game where Creighton won. I don't recall anyone complaining that Creighton got more rest than Iowa.If the Hawks had had a day less of rest then SC before playing them and lost, 97% of posters here would be bitching about it.
It's a legitimate complaint, the brackets should be designed that teams get an equal numbers of days off before the elite 8 games. If the NCAA is more concerned about TV $, then they should be transparent about it.
Don’t take away her deck of victim cards.The Women Hawks won 3 games in 3 days to win the Big Ten Tourney. Mar 3, 4, & 5th 2023.
In 2022, the Men Hawks won 4 games in 4 straight days to win the Mens Tourney.
4 or 5 days rest won’t make any difference for conditioned college kids. Someone needs to pull Staley aside and reel her back in from the excuses.
If you want fair then you don't get to play on your home court like they did! If other teams have to go on the road for some of their games then so should they. It's probably she's mad at getting beat by an almost white team?If the Hawks had had a day less of rest then SC before playing them and lost, 97% of posters here would be bitching about it.
It's a legitimate complaint, the brackets should be designed that teams get an equal numbers of days off before the elite 8 games. If the NCAA is more concerned about TV $, then they should be transparent about it.
She isn’t campaigning for equal days off (which would hurt ratings). She thinks the # 1 overall seed should get the benefit of more days off, just like 2022, when Louisville got 3 days off and South Carolina had 4 days off. She wants benefits as the # 1 seed, not equality:.. . . Big deal. She wants equal days off, and thinks the tournament admins should do everything possible to maintain that.
Lol. She’s not asking for more recovery time than anyone else. She’s using being the #1 seed to suggest being the 1 seed shouldn’t come with recovery time disadvantage. If you can find her saying the 1 seed should get MORE recovery time than other seeds, your point will be made.She isn’t campaigning for equal days off (which would hurt ratings). She thinks the # 1 overall seed should get the benefit of more days off, just like 2022, when Louisville got 3 days off and South Carolina had 4 days off. She wants benefits as the # 1 seed, not equality:
“I talked to the ESPN people and and NCAA people about our tournament and specifically us not having the proper recovery time being the No. 1 overall seed.”
She isn’t saying get rid of the Friday-Sunday and Saturday-Monday format.
“We talked about that — why we played the Saturday-Monday game (in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight) versus the Friday-Sunday game.”
She wants favorable treatment as the # 1 overall seed, not a change in format:
“I broke our tournament down where we were placed and things that we did over the course of a season which, we were the No. 1 overall seed. If there are going to be some advantages and benefits, then it should have come to us.”
"If there are going to be some advantages and benefits, then it should have come to us.” She's saying, if you're going to have the Friday-Sunday and Saturday-Monday format for regionals before the Final Four, which is the best ratings format for WBB, and which she isn't saying should be changed, then South Carolina should have played in the Friday-Sunday games as the # 1 overall seed. Just like 2022, when South Carolina had 4 days off before playing Louisville in the Final Four, and Louisville only had 3 days off. But Jeff Walz didn't complaint and whine, like Staley is doing now.. . . If you can find her saying the 1 seed should get MORE recovery time than other seeds, your point will be made.
She’s not wrong. Look this ain’t my style either but she’s not wrong."If there are going to be some advantages and benefits, then it should have come to us.” She's saying, if you're going to have the Friday-Sunday and Saturday-Monday format for regionals before the Final Four, which is the best ratings format for WBB, and which she isn't saying should be changed, then South Carolina should have played in the Friday-Sunday games as the # 1 overall seed. Just like 2022, when South Carolina had 4 days off before playing Louisville in the Final Four, and Louisville only had 3 days off. But Jeff Walz didn't complaint and whine, like Staley is doing now.
Exactly right. Just like the people that say' no disrespect" and then they do exactly that. I don't get the love here from some for Staley either. She showed her true colors several times in the week surrounding the game. Making up phatom issues about Bluder, the refs, and other nonsense. She did herself no favors throughout. She is obviously a very good coach, but its time she knock that chip off her shoulder.If you need to say
“And it’s not that I’m a sore loser…”
Then you ARE a sore loser. What an embarassment. Glad we have Coach Bluder.
And of course phenomenally fran is triggered. Of course.
Because people like to be triggered? Because people don’t like Dawn Staley?*Checks notes*
Not a single person has agreed with any of your posts in this thread. Why do you think that is?
What does “to whatever extent possible” mean in practical terms. Seems to me it’s all or nothing, because if TV format and ratings matter, then it won’t be equal.Because people like to be triggered? Because people don’t like Dawn Staley?
Are you in disagreement that, to whatever extent possible, NCAA tournament opponents should have equal recovery time?