Two fellow Valley coaches had public comments in the aftermath of Selection Sunday. See if you can decipher who said which comment.
Coach X: "Am I upset that the league didn't get more than one team in? Yes. Am I upset that Creighton didn't get in? I won't say what I feel about that."
Coach Z: "What's very frustrating is to listen to the criticism that Creighton took, that we all take. You can never satisfy that. We can never get the Lakers on our schedule three times a year. It's not going to happen. So if that's the criteria, we cannot win that game."
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Coach Z is Illinois State coach Tim Jankovich, talking to the Chicago Tribune's John Mullin. More of his quote:
"The real issue is how do you get the real powers-that-be to respect the non-BCS more instead of less. Right now the trend is toward less. That's a convenient argument. RPI becomes a convenient argument when it's in their favor, and when it's not, [they say] it doesn't matter. They all talk about Top 50 wins like those are not subjective. You don't have a Top 50 win unless there's RPI. That's how you get a number. They use those like crazy for someone like Syracuse, for example: 'Syracuse has six Top 50 wins.' But Creighton's 39 RPI you should ignore because RPI's irrelevant? Well, if it's irrelevant, then you have zero Top 50 wins because there is no Top 50 without RPI."
Coach X is our old friend Double G, Gregg Marshall, stirring the pot and doing what he does so well: delivering delicious soundbites and spewing hatred towards Creighton. I've said it before and I'll say it again: did Dana Altman accidentally run over Double G's dog with his car on a recruiting trip or something? There hasn't been this level of venom spewed the Jays' way since the halcyon days of the Steve Alford-Bruce Weber era. I can't wait for Double G to stoop to Alford's level and turn the Jays into the NCAA for made-up recruiting violations after a player torches him for 30 points some time.
You bet.
