Seems the gist is: we were not expected to be good and that expectation influences our NET, in spite of our results.
“I think the human element to it is, it’s six to one, half dozen the other. Someone told the world in September that we should be the last place finishing team in this conference. That’s what someone told the world. If you had never seen us play or practice, you looked on the casual fan, ‘Well, let me see what the SEC looks like. OK, Tennessee should be really good. South Carolina should be terrible. OK, they are terrible in my mind.’ The human element is affected by that. It just is. But the human element also allows you to use your eyeballs and overcome some numbers that say that Utah State, for example, is that much ahead of us in the NET. Some of them are crazy. Non-conference versus regular schedule matters until the season is over. At this point, who cares what our non-conference schedule was. We had to go to Alabama. We had to go to Tennessee. We had to play Tennessee back here. We had to go to Arkansas. We had Kentucky at home. We had Texas A&M. I can guarantee you New Mexico has none of that based on the league that they are in. They can’t be penalized for their league. I am not saying that. They can’t manufacture in any way shape or form the types of games that we have had to play on a consistent basis in this conference. Let’s stop talking about the non-conference versus the conference. At this point in the game, that is great in December. You talk about non-conference versus conference. At this point, let’s look at what did you do over the course of 31 basketball games. Who did you play and how did you fare? I think we lose that based on the way the metrics of this thing are. I think the human element has to be there so you can override because some of the numbers just don’t make sense at this point.
“If you look, not to go on a tangent, but if you look at the NET. Find any high major team that is anywhere around where we are ranked in the NET that has anywhere near the types of losses we do. We have six total losses. I don’t know this for a fact. I haven’t looked at it today. We have six total losses in a high major league. One of, if not the best. One of the best conferences in the country. Go into the NET and see who else, high major, has a similar amount of losses and I guarantee they are in the top 15 of the NET. The teams that will be around us that are high majors will have 12 losses. I don’t care who you play. At some point, you have to win the games. … You think about it. We are the 15th ranked team in the country. We have been ranked for the last six weeks. Someone beats us at their place, and it is a Quad 2. It is a Quad 2 win or loss. That doesn’t make any sense. While, Michigan State, 12, 13 losses. Whatever it is that they have at this point. If you play Michigan State at your own place, you are getting a Quad 1 win. That is wild to me. So, then everyone else feeds off of that. … Iowa gets a Quad 1 win because they beat Michigan State. Well, Michigan State is not the fourth team in the country like they were predicted to be. Then, they never really deteriorated that much based on that first initial ranking.”
p.s. before anyone whines and complains and gets their panties in a wad about someone talking about the NET rankings, this is simply a direct quote from Paris, so take it up with him.
“I think the human element to it is, it’s six to one, half dozen the other. Someone told the world in September that we should be the last place finishing team in this conference. That’s what someone told the world. If you had never seen us play or practice, you looked on the casual fan, ‘Well, let me see what the SEC looks like. OK, Tennessee should be really good. South Carolina should be terrible. OK, they are terrible in my mind.’ The human element is affected by that. It just is. But the human element also allows you to use your eyeballs and overcome some numbers that say that Utah State, for example, is that much ahead of us in the NET. Some of them are crazy. Non-conference versus regular schedule matters until the season is over. At this point, who cares what our non-conference schedule was. We had to go to Alabama. We had to go to Tennessee. We had to play Tennessee back here. We had to go to Arkansas. We had Kentucky at home. We had Texas A&M. I can guarantee you New Mexico has none of that based on the league that they are in. They can’t be penalized for their league. I am not saying that. They can’t manufacture in any way shape or form the types of games that we have had to play on a consistent basis in this conference. Let’s stop talking about the non-conference versus the conference. At this point in the game, that is great in December. You talk about non-conference versus conference. At this point, let’s look at what did you do over the course of 31 basketball games. Who did you play and how did you fare? I think we lose that based on the way the metrics of this thing are. I think the human element has to be there so you can override because some of the numbers just don’t make sense at this point.
“If you look, not to go on a tangent, but if you look at the NET. Find any high major team that is anywhere around where we are ranked in the NET that has anywhere near the types of losses we do. We have six total losses. I don’t know this for a fact. I haven’t looked at it today. We have six total losses in a high major league. One of, if not the best. One of the best conferences in the country. Go into the NET and see who else, high major, has a similar amount of losses and I guarantee they are in the top 15 of the NET. The teams that will be around us that are high majors will have 12 losses. I don’t care who you play. At some point, you have to win the games. … You think about it. We are the 15th ranked team in the country. We have been ranked for the last six weeks. Someone beats us at their place, and it is a Quad 2. It is a Quad 2 win or loss. That doesn’t make any sense. While, Michigan State, 12, 13 losses. Whatever it is that they have at this point. If you play Michigan State at your own place, you are getting a Quad 1 win. That is wild to me. So, then everyone else feeds off of that. … Iowa gets a Quad 1 win because they beat Michigan State. Well, Michigan State is not the fourth team in the country like they were predicted to be. Then, they never really deteriorated that much based on that first initial ranking.”
p.s. before anyone whines and complains and gets their panties in a wad about someone talking about the NET rankings, this is simply a direct quote from Paris, so take it up with him.
