Roy And The Anti-UNC Questions...

[ChapelHeeled]

Give it to them all that you can Coach! Proud to say that I have also had enough of those smug, smart arzzzes. Go Tar Heels!



http://www.fayobserver.com/blogs/sp...cle_9e91fb0a-e70f-11e5-ad5e-337e62ebb7cf.html

 

[Tom79]

Some of those sports writers are real sharp pencils. Hope they have some of that nice really big lined paper for 'em. Keep writing boys...just omit the facts.

 

[gary-7]

Give it to them all that you can Coach! Proud to say that I have also had enough of those smug, smart arzzzes. Go Tar Heels!



http://www.fayobserver.com/blogs/sp...cle_9e91fb0a-e70f-11e5-ad5e-337e62ebb7cf.html

Ol' Roy was not amused and let that wanker have it without losing his cool. That question was just nekkid douche-baggery.

 

[coryfly]

The schedule issue is kind of silly anyway. Playing BC twice is what really hurt UNC's schedule. Against the top five teams in the conference we played 1 less home game than Louisville, 2 less home games than UVA, Duke, and Miami but 1 more road game than all three, and 1 less home than ND but one more road game. The biggest differences are against the middle 5 and lower 5, where we didn't screw up like the other teams. So those differences aren't really that significant to UNC because they didn't screw up and lose a game to a decidedly lesser team like UVA and the rest of them. Again though, it is really the BC twice thing that really hurt UNC's SOS.

 

[Archer2]

Anyone who says we haven't played a very tough schedule knows not of what they speak. Period. And we haven't lost to a single team that won't make the dance. I bet there aren't five teams in the country that can say that.

 

[TVJ]

I have never been a big fan of SOS as a valid yardstick. It relies on assumptions - it is assumed that if you played "better" teams you wouldn't/couldn't win. Fact is, you play whoever is on your schedule and shouldn't be penalized because you "might not do as well" against other opponents.

 

[coryfly]

I don't mind the SOS argument. I just don't like people mentioning it without knowing a little about it. We have not had the toughest ACC schedule. That is not debatable. The differences are pretty negligible though.

 

[TPFKAPFS]

Maybe we haven't had the toughest schedule, but when the Tar Heels are the best team in the ACC, we can't have the toughest team on our schedule! (we did have the easiest though) The argument is stupid at best and meaningless in any case.

Reporters are becoming increasingly lazy just like the rest of our society. Hear someone else say something, never check the facts, repeat it like it was wisdom, pretend you didn't say it if it is debunked. (lather , rinse , repeat!)

#1 Team in the best bball conference; Top 10 almost all year; never lost to a lesser team; in the conversation for a #1 seed in the NCAAT = damn SOS!

 

[TPFKAPFS]

Maybe we haven't had the toughest schedule, but when the Tar Heels are the best team in the ACC, we can't have the toughest team on our schedule! (we did have the easiest though) The argument is stupid at best and meaningless in any case.

Reporters are becoming increasingly lazy just like the rest of our society. Hear someone else say something, never check the facts, repeat it like it was wisdom, pretend you didn't say it if it is debunked. (lather , rinse , repeat!)

#1 Team in the best bball conference; Top 10 almost all year; never lost to a lesser team; in the conversation for a #1 seed in the NCAAT = damn SOS!

 

[Archer2]

Reporters are becoming increasingly lazy just like the rest of our society. Hear someone else say something, never check the facts, repeat it like it was wisdom, pretend you didn't say it if it is debunked. (lather , rinse , repeat!)

Amen to this. Journalistic integrity rarely raises it's head. Sensationalism is the byword of the day. Truth be damned, it's all about getting hits.

 

[Jhmoss1812]

The argument is stupid this year and, hopefully you guys will admit, that it's been stupid the last few years when UVA has won the regular season.

 

[TPFKAPFS]

I don't understand what the above comment has to do with anything discussed so far. SOS is SOS so what does UVA have to do with the conversation on OUR board?

UNC is and always will be the best!

 

[Jhmoss1812]

It has to do with the fact that a lot of UNC fans were using the unbalanced argument for why UVA won the regular season the last two years. My point is that the argument holds very little merit then just as it does for UNC winning it this year.

 

[tarheel0910]

They act as if it is Roy's fault that the schedule was easy. Last time I checked he doesn't make the ACC schedule. There are only two ACC teams with a better RPI than us this year. Maybe the reporter should have asked about that.

 

[DSouthr]

I don't mind the SOS argument. I just don't like people mentioning it without knowing a little about it. We have not had the toughest ACC schedule. That is not debatable. The differences are pretty negligible though.

While I agree the first half of our schedule was easier that in some years our second half was extra tuff. Not just in the fact we had to play some power teams but that we had to play so much on the road on long road trips, takes a toll on kids that late in the season.

To penalize us because BC, a conference opponent was weak this season or because duke this season is not your typical duke and the fact we played them both twice because that is the way the conference set it up, should not weigh us down.

I keep hearing how UNC has not won a lot of games against top 25 or top 50 opponents? WE blew out Miami, we blew out a solid Pitt team that was top 25 when we played them, Md to some experts was #1 in the country when we beat them solidly. Yeah, our "soft" schedule had us playing ND, Louisville, UVa, Duke ON THE ROAD. Unless I am mistaken FSU may have even been top 25 when we beat them at their place and I am telling ya right now on that night, there were not more than 3 teams in the country that could have beaten FSU and we did. And while Syracuse had not played well when we met them at their place, did any team in the nation want to face Syracuse at their place on the day Boheim was back on the side lines for the first time this season?

Folks look at teams now, they don't seem to recall how strong a team was when we played them, just how they look right now. Maybe a huge reason for the falls of FSU and Pitt was the fact that we beat the heart out of them? You have to consider how a team was playing when the game was played and not look for example at Texas playing without Ridley as compared to how they played us with him.

 

[Hark_The_Sound_2010]

Reporters are becoming increasingly lazy just like the rest of our society. Hear someone else say something, never check the facts, repeat it like it was wisdom, pretend you didn't say it if it is debunked. (lather , rinse , repeat!)

Couldn't agree more. We've seen this in basketball this year as mentioned above. We also saw this in football in regards to UNC. Every time UNC's playoff chances were mentioned in the last few weeks of the football season, you'd hear "analysts" simply say "Two FCS teams". It got to the point that I thought the school had changed their nickname from the Tar Heels to the "North Carolina Two FCS Teams". Half the "analysts" that brought that up probably couldn't even name the two FCS teams we played because they had never looked at the schedule. They were just regurgitating stuff they had heard from other analysts. Same thing is happening in basketball.

 

[UNC-75]

I just hate the unbalanced schedule where there is always 1 or 2 teams that get an easier ride because of it.