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Wow. Why am I getting red dots for asking a question?
Pats owner Kraft lobbied to get UMass into the Big East.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-2...bs-level-umass
Good question. I have a contact that is in a uniquely insightful position. Consequently, I know that the remarks spouted by TBitR about the BE and the MAC, at least at this time, have NO basis in fact. I suppose in all this craziness something could change in that regard, but if it does and I learn of it I will say something when I can.
BTW, received an "out there" private message from TBitR. He and genpop should be avoided.
Last edited by LookingForResults; 04-22-2011 at 11:10 PM.
Tell you what. Why don't you guys take this conversation else were. I might not agree with LFR all the time but this is a TECH board. Kindly remove yourselves and find another place to troll. Tell Teatech we said hey.
Oh for a poop scooper.
All together now. Do. Not. Feed. The. Troll(s).
Our fans couldn't care less about Wright Waters not allowing us to host that tournament. Back then yes, now, not at all. It's old and doesn't matter anymore. The reason for the hate is more complicated than that and there are a few explanations.
One reason is blind, junior high-ish, I'm better than you, pride. It is rampant on this board and I would agree with you that it is silly.
Another is that after we left for the WAC, for years on end, we had Sunbelt fans coming on this board and our last board in waves, flaming and telling us what a poor decision it was. And this wasn't right after we moved to the WAC either. It went on for years. They were VERY ignorant. When we would show them in black and white how our revenue was offsetting the travel costs they wouldn't listen and kept insisting that flying our teams to the West coast was killing us all the while they were flying from Denver to Miami and PAYING to have their basketball teams in the SBC tournament while we were making money from ours. For years on end they would come here and flame with no numbers whatsoever to back it up. Obviously when we would respond with facts and numbers in black and white and they were ignored we would follow that up with the harsher responses that those trolls deserved. That helped create the hate you speak of and the Belt posters that came here deserved it.
Another is the fact that the Sunbelt has traditionally been the worst conference in College Football. And it's not like it's terrible football plus ACC basketball either. It's just not a good conference. Frankly there hasn't been much there to like. And when you constantly have people saying why aren't you in the Sunbelt?, you are going to tell them just why that would be a bad move for us and what you think of the Sunbelt. The MAC is right there with it but we don't constantly have MAC fans on this board flaming our school or telling us we need to join the MAC either now do we??
Now if you come back and tell me the Sunbelt is going to be better than the new WAC well I don't know about that. Probably I would have to agree it will be slightly better at first. And I do agree that the new WAC will suck. But then again both conferences will suck. That's why as a Tech fan I don't want us in either conference. It's a bad situation in general. One that wouldn't have been avoided if we would have remained in the Sunbelt because then unfortunately ....we'd still be in the Sunbelt. Swapping one crappy conference for a slightly less or slightly more crappy conference isn't really the goal here.
Those aren't the only reasons but it's a few of the bigger reasons. But either way, I can promise you it has nothing to do with the location of a womens basketball tournament over ten years ago.
I don't believe you for a minute and think you're probably just another sun belch sellout/bandwagon fan. And if morman, then you're still on our board because your perceived morman bashing back a few months ago which makes you a hater. Either way you're a troll and a hater. Go play on your other 2 boards (MTS and BYU). Or did you already get run off from those?
It has always amazed me which Belchers come to this board. They are usually from either MTSU, UNT or the UL upick'em, and they hate so incessantly on this board and a bunch of others. Why us?