WBB: American Southwest Conference

[fanstand]

Way to lay it out there Bench Coach! I agree, I am NOT ready to give HPU a Final Four ticket...I want one for LIB....Someone give the guy some Karma for honesty! I still think we are a GREAT team and have the same potential as HPU or HSU. I'm not giving up or in!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thundercat]

Nobody is giving up on their team.  Get real.  What they are doing is giving HPU their due credit.  They have proved, thus far, that they are the best team in the conference.  But let me make it clear, that is all we have done to this point.  Coach K and his players are well aware of how quickly things can turn.  (@ TLU 2 years in a row!)  They will remain focused on what is in front of them (CUA on thursday) and nothing more.  In all honesty, Final Four talk shouldn't even be occuring.  They have the talent, yes, but we are a long ways out from that and have some great teams to go through to even win the conference tournament! 

Good luck this week girls!  I will be cheering you on in hopes of hosting the Conference Tournament.  And I wouldn't miss being at that for the world!

[Bench Coach]

I hope the Cowgirls can pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat but it is looking like a Jacket run to me! 

That to me sounds like some people are giving up on their teams, I didn't mention your name so please don't take any offense to it.  There are some people who are starting to doubt their teams.  All I am saying is that I am not going to doubt "my team" until they are you of the conference tournament and they don't get a bid.  I know that isn't going to happen to "my team" because I believe in them and I know that they can do it, no matter what the odds are!

[Ralph Turner]

Wow!  I haven't ever heard of people  giving up on their teams as easily as some of you are.  "Your team" has lost a couple games and many of you are jumping on the HPU banwagon.  On ANY given day ANY team can be defeated!  Everyone has a bad day, where they don't play well, and that is when you get beat.  I know people let their guard down and they get a little big headed, and you get beat.  I know some high school teams that has had that problem, they should of stomped a team and they ended up losing because they were looking for the next one.  I will not give up on the team or teams that I support.  I will cheer on HPU when the team that I want to win is out.  I think those that are giving up on their team need to do the same, if their fans aren't going to be behind them, then who is!!



Go LIB!!!  YOU CAN ACHIEVE ALL!!!!

Good post, Bench coach!

We just need LIB to decide which team will show up.  HSU made a big turnaround last year.  We just need the "LIB vs. HPU at Kimbrell" team to show up and not the "LIB vs. HPU at Brownwood"!

[inthepaint]

Wow!  I haven't ever heard of people  giving up on their teams as easily as some of you are . . .

Good post, Bench coach! . . .

Thanks, Bench Coach, for that dose of smelling salts!    I repent!  Go HSU Cowgirls!  Forgive me for my momentary lapse of dedication!  I believe in you! 

Karma point for Bench Coach!  Not for your honesty but for shouting (the bold font) me back to reality!  I needed the slap in the face, the sharp correction, and the swift kick to the seat of my pants! 

While HPU is showing more depth and strength than I have ever seen in Browntown that does not mean that my Cowgirls are not ready to repeat what we all witnessed last year.  And just because the Lady Jackets hold a commanding grasp on the ASC West title it does not mean that the Lady Tribe can't win the ASC title outright! 

Again, Bench Coach, Karma point from me!  Another will be deposited tomorrow when the board allows me to.  That is unless you smack me around again!   

Ralph, I'd give you a Karma point too, but you don't need any!

[McM93]

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Coach Potera-Haskins is an interesting case.  If you google her name, you find that she received support from the AAUW in a sex-discrimination suit versus Montana State related to compensation and support for her women's basketball teams.

Next, we find out that she was the last coach from the ASC-East to lead her team to a NCAA Playoff berth (Austin College in 1999). 

If we see her turning LaCollege into a winner, then we will understand that she was doing what it takes.  There is plenty of talent in Louisana and East Texas.  Those parents will probably be comfortable sending their daughters to play for her.

(I will not mention the school, but we had a coaching change at another school recently in which the new coach came in, and laid down the law.  That coach seems to be doing very well now.)

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was she at Austin College in the mid 90's?  If she is the same coach she was something else.  I remember watching their game at HSU and afterwards she grabbed the microphone and went into a spill about everything you can imagine.  She thanked her fans and supporters (there was about three in the stands), her family (none attended), and the men's team who wasn't even in the stands for the game!!!  She liked to put on a show. 

But she did know how to win.

[CUAfan]

They will remain focused on what is in front of them (CUA on thursday) and nothing more.

They'd better. We only lost by 7 in Brownwood, and I think that's their closest margin outside of the HSU/MCM games. We can beat them, I think, it's just a matter of if it will happen or not.

[dballa]

HPU will be ready to go.  I know they feel that game shouldn't have been that close.  They tried too hard to win it after they were hacked off after having the game moved to the next Monday.  This time around they will be focused and it may not be pretty.  Especially if Meia gets back on track.

CUA shouldn't be worrying about Thursday nights game.  They should be worried about tonight.  If they lose tonight or don't win by more than 10 they are mathematically out of the running for the conference tournament.

If they play like they did against TLU this past weekend they won't win another game this year.

[CUAfan]

Oh, I'm sure the team will be ready to go tonight. They are (or should be anyway) angry about the TLU loss and ready to prove that we're not that bad. Speaking of which, it seems to me that TLU really got up for their games against us this year for some reason, maybe the whole Lutheran thing.

I'm quite aware of our chances of making the conference tourney. I try to be optimistic about that sort of thing, but realistically our chances of making it are slim to none. We'd have to beat UMHB, have them lose the rest of their games, and have us win out (which would mean beating HPU here and HSU and MCM in Abilene). The odds of that happening aren't very good, and even then it would come down to a tiebreaker.

On the other hand, we should have almost everyone back next year so we should be better with all the regulars getting so close (meaning 5th) and not making the tourney. Gotta be hungry.

[dballa]

http://www.wbca.org/DIIICoachesPoll.asp

HPU moved up to #4.  Usually HPU is further down the line in this poll than in the D3Hoops one.

[Pat Coleman]

They finally took notice, huh?

They only have one South voter, where they have two from the Mid-Atlantic and two from the West. Two West voters gives them someone on the West Coast, which I can't argue with, but why they would need two voters about an hour apart in Pennsylvania out of 10 overall is beyond me.

[HPU75]

As an HPU fan, I am obviously thrilled for our team to be ranked #4 in the wbca poll and #5 in the "real" poll.  I do agree, Pat, that 10 voters is not nearly enough, especially with the regional concentration it has; HOWEVER, I am still surprised but pleased with that #4!!

[nash]

Congrats to MC's Lacey Kennedy!  She became the ASC All Time Leading Scorer with a 30 point effort tonight in the win over LC.  Her total stands at 1813 points over a four year period.

[inthepaint]

This is totally off the subject but I just have to ask.

With all the humility I can muster up, I must say that my last post (see above) was the stuff that deserves a positive karma vote.  However, someone (I think I know who  ) gave me their smite!

Tell me what I wrote that deserved a smack down!  I have done my best to not stir the pot, to not take cheap shots, to avoid the sarcasm . . . all those thing that I consider to be my spiritual gifts! 

Give me some help here!  What was the issue?

[fanstand]

I know this sounds lame, but could someone clue me in on how to give karma points. You would think after 3 or 4 years of this I would know, but I don't