LeBron just went below the belt on UNI

[95UNIGRAD]

Re: LeBron just went below the belt on UNI

We lost in the round of 32.....not the sweet 16, not the final 4. It will never be on the scale of those other things you mentioned. Ppl need to seriously move on and get over it. We were prob a sweet 16 team at best and Wernt going to go much further. I don't say that because lack of talent but I say it because we played 7 freaking players. Eventually that is going to catch up to you (like Robby actually playing in that game). It is what it is...those guys played hard and lost. Move on and stop pretending like ppl outside of us really care. It's something to talk about during the down time between games and will die out pretty quick, especially if they lose next week. Only way it doesn't is if they win it all. So please, everyone just chill out and enjoy what we saw this year. We will be back and we will be better in the near future.

Absolutely. Every scenario he mentioned involved a team or individual playing for a title and letting it slip away. Losing in the round of 32 in an NCAA tournament doesn't compare, as epic a loss as it was. I don't expect it to completely disappear, but it won't completely define us either. If A&M loses to Oklahoma (and I think they undoubtedly will), it will eventually be largely forgotten by the nation.

[95UNIGRAD]

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...58913767179610

Farokhmanesh' response on twitter was perfect "some of us choose not to quit no matter how hard things get" followed by a link to an article about LeBron quitting leading to the Cavaliers playoff exit in 2010

Beautiful. LeBron getting schooled by a guy from Kirkwood CC.

[run&blade]

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Really? That's the equivalent of us blowing a ~40 pt lead...for anyone who maths.

If you were trying to count the Uni mistakes on your fingers the last minute you would have needed to take your shoes and socks off.

Reggie made three and a couple turnovers led to eight points. That pales in comparison to what happened Sunday.

Time will tell wher history puts it and how often it gets dug up.

[SteinPizza]

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If you were trying to count the Uni mistakes on your fingers the last minute you would have needed to take your shoes and socks off.

Reggie made three and a couple turnovers led to eight points. That pales in comparison to what happened Sunday.

Time will tell wher history puts it and how often it gets dug up.

All true above, but the people making the biggest deal out of it are UNI fans within the state. Nationally, this will fade quickly, since it was a round of 32 game with far less significance than the later rounds. It will get dug up in the pregame telecast of our next NCAA game, sure. But that's about it. No need to lose sleep over this, and if people are worried about ridicule from in-state fans of Iowa and ISU, then stop and remind yourself we're talking about a pretty "small pond".

[BCPanther]

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Iowa and Iowa State fans don't have much of a leg to stand on. Iowa just got beat in the second round by 19 for the second straight year. Iowa State has both Hampton and UAB.

We have nothing to be ashamed of.

[claw]

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Iowa and Iowa State fans don't have much of a leg to stand on. Iowa just got beat in the second round by 19 for the second straight year. Iowa State has both Hampton and UAB.

We have nothing to be ashamed of.

Iowa also has this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ktjk9HsnMA

[95UNIGRAD]

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If it makes anyone feel better, the internet is tearing him a new one. Lots of references to his playoff performance in Cleveland against the Celtics a few years back where he appeared to quit.

http://www.stack.com/a/lebron-james-...hern-iowa-joke

[SteinPizza]

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If it makes anyone feel better, the internet is tearing him a new one. Lots of references to his playoff performance in Cleveland against the Celtics a few years back where he appeared to quit.

http://www.stack.com/a/lebron-james-...hern-iowa-joke

I would hope it would. After all, this is a highly paid professional attempting to rip a bunch of amateur college players. If he truly was serious in his comments, it's totally classless.

The post game show reaction by the CBS crew was interesting. Barkley was pretty muted, basically saying that these are college kids, and no need to add insult to injury. They all agreed UNI was largely responsible for it's own demise, but that's just pointing out a common sense fact. The one thing they did do was point out A&M's no quit aggressiveness, and contrasted it with Iowa.

[northwest iowa panther]

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Oh my! The PGA tour is playing a match play tournament and the golf channel's announcers were describing Rory McIlroy's dramatic come from behind victory as being similar to UNI's crushing defeat. Apparently McIlroy's opponent just needed to finish but instead couldn't close the deal. We are a footnote in basketball history and are now being used in describing other sports come from behind victories.

[claw]

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Oh my! The PGA tour is playing a match play tournament and the golf channel's announcers were describing Rory McIlroy's dramatic come from behind victory as being similar to UNI's crushing defeat. Apparently McIlroy's opponent just needed to finish but instead couldn't close the deal. We are a footnote in basketball history and are now being used in describing other sports come from behind victories.

It's still fresh - that's an attempt to cross platforms. The reality is by the time next basketball season rolls around 99% of people will have forgotten outside of the occasion it gets shown on TV. The number of times it will get shown, by this time next year, will be very small.

By the time Wyatt is done with this program it will almost never be mentioned by the national media anymore.

Ride the wave of people talking crap for now. It will be gone soon enough

[Purrrrrfect]

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It's still fresh - that's an attempt to cross platforms. The reality is by the time next basketball season rolls around 99% of people will have forgotten outside of the occasion it gets shown on TV. The number of times it will get shown, by this time next year, will be very small.

By the time Wyatt is done with this program it will almost never be mentioned by the national media anymore.

Ride the wave of people talking crap for now. It will be gone soon enough

I don't necessarily agree with this. The next one or two times we make the tournament no matter when that will be, it will be shown and remembered. Likely will be in some way a highlight to march madness commercials next year. Its gonna be a couple years at the least before it's just old news. It'll probably be remembered more than Jespersons shot in fact. The brighter side to it would be that people remember A&M and not who they came back on. (example, Duke's miracle minute...i think it was Maryland, but as the years go by, I don't honestly remember)

[NI hawk]

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They are talking about it right now on First Take on ESPN2. LeBron taking some heat but also calling it one of the greatest collapses in sports history. Because I have Hawk in my name does not mean I do not pull for UNI. Hasn't been a night I have not thought about A&M game.

[FOTY]

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Generally I don't care what LeBron says or does. However, having to hear about his comments on a national ESPN program this morning was a little over the top. The national media had moved on from our Sunday loss and was focused on this weekend. These comments put our loss and UNI back into discussion on sports talk radio/tv.

[panther1]

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Folks, we will make a Sweet 16 in the next couple of years. I wouldn't rule out next year to be honest. Replacing the 3 seniors is no small task, but there is talent waiting in the wings.

Carlson and Morgan might be the best one-two combo in the MVC next year. In other words, who cares about Lebron.

[williebat]

It was tongue in cheek humor


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