Although this article is very complimentary of Indiana State and is a nice read, I believe he makes mention of the fact (similar to Little Eddie's position) he doubts it matters what we do, we will probably not be able to "compete" with WSU and MSU. Now I will admit that he and Little Eddie have much more knowledge of those teams than I, matter-a-fact I have never seen either team play. The reason I say "compete" LE is, when you say that a team is going to have to have an off night and the other team is going to have to have a really good night to beat them, then well you are suggesting that we can't compete - plain and simple, don't try to spin it any other way. If I sound offended/slighted, I am.
However, I find it hard to believe that the teams we are beating in the Valley (normally a highly competitive conference) are that bad. As I have stated before, the same thought would have probably been had by Wessler when seeing how the Sycamores matched up against ND and PU. Both games that Indiana State had chances to win, so to suggest that those teams (MSU & WSU) are maybe better than Indiana State - fine I am cool with that. But I am tired of all this bull about who we have played and the fact that we have played some home games yadda yadda yadda. Don't let those comments cloud your thoughts of what this team has done, they have bounced back after losses all season. They have won games without our two best players (by EVERYONES estimation) coming into the season. So don't let outsiders trick you into thinking that we only won those games because we were playing bad teams and we were playing at home. So what.... Bradley was beat up the first time we played them, we took care of business and beat the tar out of them. Isn't that the point? Had we played those teams close and squeaked out close victories we would be calling those "good wins", but nooooo the Sycamores blow the doors off a couple teams and "not really a good win you were at home and they suck".
So look if people want to compliment us on our success I am fine by that, but don't give me this bull about us not being able to play with the upper tier teams in the MVC, last time I checked the records we were in the upper tier. It aint an admiration, you have to win freaking basketball games to get to that point. We have won 5 Valley games by an average of 12 points, how's the saying go? You are what your record says you are? Well in Valley play our record says we are a damn good ball club getting better!
Finally let the record show that I am not asking for anyone to respect us, I realize that is not going to happen. However the backhanded compliments really don't do much for me at this point.
