SquidLegs

I can sympathize with posters who are looking for the appropriate place to talk about the biggest story in the national media about A10 last season, the Xavier Brawlers. Every time a proper thread is formed to discuss it (Even by non-UD posters), it mysteriously disappears. This forces that natural discussion into other threads. It's an awful mess. Who is to blame? Nobody really knows who is doing this because there is a cloak of silence about such topics. It is forbidden territory. You can receive board demirits from just bringing it up. Very creepy stuff.

It's also fascinating that Muddy is blamed for this, seeing that he is not even currently participating in this thread. I think we all know what the Xavier mafia wants to do with Muddy. It's very gangster-like in it's nature.

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The two homer reasons that Xavier fans are delusional in their evaluation of the Muskies: 1. Byron Larkin 2. Brian Snow

Xaviers Shame:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gpS7PSYWcM

X-man47

Not if I didn't have to read them. And I wouldn't, because I have them all on "Ignore", except for the fact that others still quote or respond to them. Stop doing that and these tedious pissing matches would evaporate over night.

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Xavier always goes to the NCAA tournament, and almost always makes some noise while there. Projecting anything less than that this season feels like folly.
Eamonn Brennan, ESPN (Summer Shootaround, 2012)

spicebosh

Its stupid. Xavier is a better program now than UD, fact. X posters take the bait on this trivial bs all the time.

antboy

Two points here, and then I'll let you guys get back to killing boredom with the same predictable back-and-forth:
1. My post clearly indicated that it doesn't matter "who started it", since you're either trolling or taking bait. Either way, you're partly responsible. If you enjoy it, might as well own up to it.
2. I believe this was the first post to mention Xavier or Dayton smack in this thread:

Who posted that?

xavierhoops

There is a MUCH easier, simpler solution. And that solution has proven very effective over the past couple months.

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Chris Mack in 3 years at Xavier has had twice the NCAA wins (4) of the entire Dayton coaching staff in the modern era of NCAA basketball (2).

xavierhoops

I don't think anyone is "partly responsible" when it's been proven that Muddy is the sole cause of this as over the past couple months none of this X-UD back and forth happened. He's been back less than a week, and this board has fallen off a cliff.

I posted that. Not sure what the problem with that is. Just pointing out to Muddy and friends that that would be a "reasonable persons" way to see the Xavier team this year than all the delusioned, innae, daily lies they post throughout this board.

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Chris Mack in 3 years at Xavier has had twice the NCAA wins (4) of the entire Dayton coaching staff in the modern era of NCAA basketball (2).

ace93

I think that when you think a certain poster is a problem, it's a bit foolish to call them out in a thread that they are not actively participating in.

Kevin Waymire

I can't help but think of UD when it comes to this video in "The Rock." It just fits them so perfectly..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvzIw7fyA2k

"Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and **** the prom queen."

I'll even modify it a bit: Losers always whine about shaking hands and cheesecakes. Winners go to NCAA Tournaments, win A-10 championships and get their players drafted..

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"Miller didn't do anything last year to improve on or surpass Gregory's performance..... In fact it looked just like a Gregory team. Nice start, crappy middle (with every excuse in the book), a decent win or two near the end to get everyone's hopes up, then a dissapointing finish - that is Dayton basketball 2002 - 2012."

-KNOBBY

xudash

It has to matter who starts it. That is the source of the problem. If you don't like the back and forth, then ignore the threads, as you said you would.

Whether it's labeled an inconvenience or summer fun, Xavier posters are being provided the luxury of hammering a tool who apparently has no problem with finding ways to humiliate himself.

Allow me to put it this way: do you honestly think you would simply sit back 100% of the time and ignore posters who make it the core of their being to take stupid shots at your program?

The Dayton program and Dayton fans in general are put in a very negative light around here because of this guy and a couple other UD tools that post here. That's a shame, because Dayton is a good school and its basketball program has solid tradition historically.

This isn't about Xavier fans looking petty because they pro-actively take shots at UD. This isn't about Xavier fans looking small because they fire back at these idiots. This is about a few UD fans mucking up this board due to their obsession with Xavier. Don't come on here and tell Xavier fans to just ignore it. You couldn't possibly do that 100% of the time if your school were the focus of the drivel, especially if the drivel was so weak and comical as to deserve a response.

BTW, there are a number of Xavier fans here who have these guys on ignore and choose not to respond some of the time or even all of the time. I have him on ignore, along with Squidy and one or two others.

xavierhoops

^^^Good point. I shouldn't have.

Just to add- it's not I think a certain poster is a problem. It's clearly been proven over the past couple months.

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Chris Mack in 3 years at Xavier has had twice the NCAA wins (4) of the entire Dayton coaching staff in the modern era of NCAA basketball (2).

ace93

I wholeheartedly agree with both of these statements.

paulxu

Dash, you are a better man than I.
Don't have anyone on ignore, and actually the amusement factor is very high.

I concur that Dayton has a good program. I am mystified with some of the posts on this board. I don't understand why the perceived challenges of one opponenet would give you more pleasure than the accomplishments of your own team.

It's fascinating and amusing. I don't notice this negative preoccupation by any other fans against a singular opponent. Even on the main Dayton board the XU/UC game has the 3rd most postings of any thread in the history of the board. Only this year's recruit thread has more since December.

So this singular focus is a lot broader than just this board. Meanwhile there is a lot of great basketball in store for the A10 this year. It is going to be crazy with Butler and VCU added.

This offseason has been unusually long.

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xu95

Let's get back on topic or the thread gets closed.

Bona Wolf for Pope

SBU > Xavier this year, then.

Also, I feel like saying Ndoye is our most important player because he's filling in for Nicholson is a bit erroneous. The Bonnies are likely going to play a very different style this year and the scoring is going to come from the 4 and 3 rather than the 5. I don't think the author is saying that unless Ndoye scores 10+ a night we'll lose, but no one seems to be giving Conger or Kloof their due and I think they will be able to play without the standard center in the middle scheme we've used.

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Knobby

I gotta tell ya, the only reason I pile on Dayton is because of one very dumb poster - and I really have no other skin in the game. He is a troll and deserves everything he gets (in the message board sense). The other dumb Dayton posters were much more palatable when the King was on vacation.

The general tone of the board changed almost instantaneously when said poster returned from his [clearly] not-long-enough hiatus. I hadn't even seen one post of his yet and I already knew he was back on and "doing his thing". It is a sad statement when one person can draw that much vitriol in a nano-second - not impressive - SAD!

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