conference usa had louisville, memphis, marquette, depaul (yes they used to be good)...you act like they were playing against high school teams.
First of all, Louisville in the late 90s was nowhere near as stacked as it is now so that doesn't work. Secondly Marquette was always a small squad and while Memphis is a storied program with a lot of talent and some length, Depaul was NEVER known for their length.
It's just not the same thing at all.
Things change, look how much we've changed in that time.
guess what- four of the teams he played against in the cusa yancy gates
now plays against. i never said it was the big east, but c-usa used to be a lot more respected in the day than it is now, and they were playing against d-1 bodies.
No, they weren't the same teams, they only had the same name.
Depaul today is a D-1 program, saying "D-1" tells us nothing.
Those teams didn't have the size or talent of many of the programs that are considered tough teams today.
Teams like Florida, North Carolina, Cuse, Texas, UConn ect were longer and stronger teams than what we played back in those days. I remember C-USA being good, but they weren't a bunch of Hoss teams who you knew could shut down the paint.
and you say you want to see what fortson does...
I already know what Fortson would do, the guy was completely limited and predictable. My problem is that his competition was not the same as ours now and I think he wouldn't fare as well against what we face today. Which is why I think calling on his name liked he'd be super man is a waste of time.
Teams are bigger, stronger, longer and more athletic in our conference now. In the time he was at Cincinnati, all we did was survive tourny games and then lose in the second round, where was his dominant performance there?
I don't recall him being triple teams by OOC foes.
C-USA back then was essentially the A-10. That's reality. We were consistantly over-rated and if you look at the time Huggins had his best squads we never once beat a higher seed than us. That says a lot.
You take away the one final four team and what you're left with is a lot of hoopla.
id like to see what gates does against a c-usa triple team. mick has to announce
Mick never shuts his mouth, Bob Huggins and Mick Cronin are two different people and their personalities cannot be compared, unlike Fortson and Gates. Danny Fortson dunked on short ass skinny mid major teams and couldn't shoot a jump shot if it was 5 feet away and no one else was on the floor. NBA teams realized that and that's why his pro career was a wash.
He was strong, but he wasn't anything special as a ball player.
I think Yancy would shoot it over their heads before the triple team ever formed, such is the advantage of having a ball player rather than just an athlete on your team.
