Xavier

[cincyguy13]

Thank you for this, goes to show it's not just frustration on our part. While Xavier beat us either way, they're still a garbage program at the moment. I don't mean record or winning wise, but the type of players they have. Whether our kids our going to be great or not there isn't a single guy with bad character on our team and personally, i love that. I love havin players that I can be proud of on and off the court. That being said we still gotta win, got a good chance to save face against Florida Saturday. Wouldn't call it a must win, but I think seeding wise it's as important as it gets.

If we want to have a special season like we all hoped to have, it might be a must win.

 

[Alum2013]

Please, I seem to remember Martin's flex to the X student section at the Cintas. Yes he let Macura go, subbed him out, and said quiet to his team on the court. I saw it all on TV, it was clear and up close camera work. Hey, you never watch so how would you know one way or the other.

Dude,when you're as good as Kmart you can flex, you can moon your friends, hell you can even moon the crowd. When you're J.P.freaking Macura you stand there and just be happy.

 

[IDC]

This board sounds like a bunch of wimpy kids after the bully stole our lunch money. I hate X as much as anyone but who cares if they talk trash and have swagger. We embraced that role in the 90's.

Did anyone hear the LeBatard Show today- Mick getting made fun of on national radio, not a good look.

 

[cincrulz11]

Did anyone hear the LeBatard Show today- Mick getting made fun of on national radio, not a good look.

lol at listening to that windbag.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

This board sounds like a bunch of wimpy kids after the bully stole our lunch money. I hate X as much as anyone but who cares if they talk trash and have swagger. We embraced that role in the 90's.

Did anyone hear the LeBatard Show today- Mick getting made fun of on national radio, not a good look.

With the game being played on championship Saturday for CFB, the coaching carousel, playoff selection, then NFL games and news I am sure this was a top 5 story today right behind LiAngelo being removed from UCLA. Outside of greater area, not even on radar

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Did anyone see the actual video of the postgame and Cronin being "escorted" to the locker room? Did this ESPN Bastard guy show it? It is blown so far out of proportion. A X coach grabbed his arm, turned him around and there was a police officer that walked next to him as he went to the locker room.

 

[RDCat]

This board sounds like a bunch of wimpy kids after the bully stole our lunch money. I hate X as much as anyone but who cares if they talk trash and have swagger. We embraced that role in the 90's.

Did anyone hear the LeBatard Show today- Mick getting made fun of on national radio, not a good look.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

There is a difference between swagger and disrespect. Kenyon never took over a press conference and said he was a gangster and zipping people up, Pete Mikeal never cussed out another coach, Mel Levett never headbutted anyone. Van Exel never told X's coach to suck his johnson and started a brawl (Per chad B) The extracurriculars are what could potentially stop this series. Now granted no X coach has ever wanted to fight a player, if you watch the video it is not that bad. The banner about his mom, the stuff getting thrown at him during the game and the players berating him got in his head.

Play one more at home then move to the ohio crossroads where UC can play OSU and Dayton and X on a neutral site

 

[waterhead]

There is a difference between swagger and disrespect. Kenyon never took over a press conference and said he was a gangster and zipping people up, Pete Mikeal never cussed out another coach, Mel Levett never headbutted anyone. Van Exel never told X's coach to suck his johnson and started a brawl (Per chad B) The extracurriculars are what could potentially stop this series. Now granted no X coach has ever wanted to fight a player, if you watch the video it is not that bad. The banner about his mom, the stuff getting thrown at him during the game and the players berating him got in his head.

Play one more at home then move to the ohio crossroads where UC can play OSU and Dayton and X on a neutral site

Yah...swagger is all about confidence. We need to get some of that back at UC. They need to walk into any gym and fell like they are the best team. If you believe you are the best team you usually play like it. If you have doubt...you probably won't.

The good thing is I think Broome has some of that confidence we need and it was showing in this game. Confidence can feed into the rest of the team. A big win will go a long way for us in this department as well.

It would also be nice for our coach to build our confidence too. A coach can say "you are better than that...the next time I put you in I want you to show me what I already know you can do". Or he could say "What the hell are you doing...get outta my face right now because I don't even want to look at you after that play". But I don't think Cronin's style will change so the players are going to have to build themselves up or maybe some of the other coaches.

Things like confidence, belief, and chemistry cannot be underestimated. It can make an average team good and a great team average.

 

[IDC]

There is a difference between swagger and disrespect. Kenyon never took over a press conference and said he was a gangster and zipping people up, Pete Mikeal never cussed out another coach, Mel Levett never headbutted anyone. Van Exel never told X's coach to suck his johnson and started a brawl (Per chad B) The extracurriculars are what could potentially stop this series. Now granted no X coach has ever wanted to fight a player, if you watch the video it is not that bad. The banner about his mom, the stuff getting thrown at him during the game and the players berating him got in his head.

Play one more at home then move to the ohio crossroads where UC can play OSU and Dayton and X on a neutral site

Sorry not buying that. Kenyon, Fortson, Ruben Patterson, Lance, Van Exel -
these were not guys that would be considered "clean" players. They played on the line, sometimes went over it and we love them for it.

Now we keep getting punked by little brother because they have the swag we used to have and we cry about it.

I'll say it again I hate X more than anything but they're doing the same thing- playing to the line and yes they cross it but those guys listed above wouldn't allow them to cross it year after year.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

First you said UC embraced this in the 90's, Lance did not play then. Second, this is like your opinion. Please show links where any of those mentioned cussed at a coach, started a fight, took over a press conference calling themselves gangsters, headbutted an opposing X player. Doing those things is not swag, swagger is confidence.

When did any of the above mentioned go over the proverbial line? Any links

So UC lost not because of rebounding, defense or shooting it is because X has swagger?

 

[eric3287]

This board sounds like a bunch of wimpy kids after the bully stole our lunch money. I hate X as much as anyone but who cares if they talk trash and have swagger. We embraced that role in the 90's.

Did anyone hear the LeBatard Show today- Mick getting made fun of on national radio, not a good look.

This has really nothing to do with the game, but what I hate is that X fans don't really embrace it. Or, the "narrative" is that X is the plucky little underdog still. They run out teams full of punks and cons and everyone talks about them like they're the second coming of Ward Cleaver.

 

[Bearcats1232002]

This has really nothing to do with the game, but what I hate is that X fans don't really embrace it. Or, the "narrative" is that X is the plucky little underdog still. They run out teams full of punks and cons and everyone talks about them like they're the second coming of Ward Cleaver.

That whole "holier than thou", we have a team full of solid citizens and angels is pretty much a narrative that all catholic schools try to propagate. Some schools are worse than others but it is there.

Only thing that will shut them up is to start beating them. At least 50% of the time instead of once every 3 or 4 years.