Valley Talk

[ProwlingPanther]

In regards to their poll.

Could someone remind them that we knocked off a 3rd seeded Missouri team in the dance and came pretty close to a sweet sixteen ourselves? True, historically there are some great teams in the Valley that our greatest teams, so far, might not hold a candle too, but to say we've never accomplished anything is pretty stupid.

Then again, I noticed they left Indiana St's 1979 team and Bradley's 2006sweet 16 team off of the poll too, so it can't be too credible.

I swear its a bunch of junior high kids on that site, calling each other names, starting fights, etc. Or maybe, that is a microcosm of the rest of the valley's educational systems.

[ProwlingPanther]

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Poll is titled..UNI Fans what is better....

SIU 2002 Sweet 16 1 4.17%
Creighton 2002 2nd round Korver 2 8.33%
WSU 2006 Sweet 16 11 45.83%
SIU 2007 Sweet 16 5 20.83%
UNI 2010 - nothing

http://valleytalk.net/showthread.php?t=8790

[UNIpanther99]

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If you don't have the stomach for Valleytalk, I would just suggest staying away from the site. I enjoy the back and forth to a point and put up with the childish stuff because there is some decent basketball content once in a while.

The poll in question is obviously not to be taken seriously, and even if you do take it literally, it isn't entitled "what is the greatest valley team ever?" Dawgiestyle was trying to make a point in response to another thread, and he didn't exactly do a very good job of making his point.

[ProwlingPanther]

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Right on.. I guess I don't know the history.. Thanks for clarifying..

The whole forum seems rather childish.

[UNI Prof]

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I would recommend not visiting the site. It is just about worthless.

[Purple member]

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In regards to their poll.

Could someone remind them that we knocked off a 3rd seeded Missouri team in the dance and came pretty close to a sweet sixteen ourselves? True, historically there are some great teams in the Valley that our greatest teams, so far, might not hold a candle too, but to say we've never accomplished anything is pretty stupid.

Then again, I noticed they left Indiana St's 1979 team and Bradley's 2006sweet 16 team off of the poll too, so it can't be too credible.

I swear its a bunch of junior high kids on that site, calling each other names, starting fights, etc. Or maybe, that is a microcosm of the rest of the valley's educational systems.

If I recall, we weren't in the Valley back then. Kinda hard to be a good/great valley team if we weren't a member

[ProwlingPanther]

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My bad.. I was pretty young then..

[SteinPizza]

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If I recall, we weren't in the Valley back then. Kinda hard to be a good/great valley team if we weren't a member

Spot on correct. If I'm a generic Valley basketball fan, I could give a rat's a$$ what UNI did prior to joining the league. It was UNI having this kind of success that enabled us to join; we wouldn't have been invited without it.

The MVC has some very good history and pedigree for a mid major conference. UNI joining the league in the early '90s was a big step up for us. I'd say we've acquitted ourselves pretty well.

[ProwlingPanther]

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when did we join the Valley? Thanks.

[BCPanther]

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when did we join the Valley? Thanks.

91-92 season. One year after SMS, now Missouri State...

[Cat80]

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Funniest thing recently on VT was a WSU fan talking about MTXE returning to Wichita and the greatness of the past being rekindled. Gene Smithson was at Illinois State before Wichita and I remember ISU in the late 70's wearing uniforms with MTXE on them. 25,000 points which don't count for the fairly easy answer as to what MTXE meant:

[06panther10]

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According to the first entry of my google search...

It means Mental Toughness Extra Effort.

Dumb shockers can't even get their acronyms right...

[Newsbreaker]

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I want to smack the shockers right across the mouth on Tuesday and seize control of this thing.

[Cat80]

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According to the first entry of my google search...

It means Mental Toughness Extra Effort.

Dumb shockers can't even get their acronyms right...

Google search? Let's see, born in the 80's right? More spoiler than winner, good thing the points don't count.

FWIW it was a big deal when ISUred came to the dome to play UNI. UNI was still DII and ISU was ranked that year in DI. I think it was 78, but too lazy to dig into archives. HUGE crowd of 4,500 in the Dome for that one. 4,500 was huge at that time. The bleachers on the floor of the dome were 5 high softball bleachers and there were no seats at the ends of the court, only the walls 30-40 yds away. I know UNI lost the game, I think by about 8 points. If Jim Berry surfs PN, he could fill us in, he was the coach at the time.

[06panther10]

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Google search? Let's see, born in the 80's right? More spoiler than winner, good thing the points don't count.

FWIW it was a big deal when ISUred came to the dome to play UNI. UNI was still DII and ISU was ranked that year in DI. I think it was 78, but too lazy to dig into archives. HUGE crowd of 4,500 in the Dome for that one. 4,500 was huge at that time. The bleachers on the floor of the dome were 5 high softball bleachers and there were no seats at the ends of the court, only the walls 30-40 yds away. I know UNI lost the game, I think by about 8 points. If Jim Berry surfs PN, he could fill us in, he was the coach at the time.

ha, that would be horrible to shoot in there.