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Ok I'll bite, since you guys probably miss me. Let's play this game. I'll start with wbb and do a quick overview so I can go through why SDSU fans have "arrogant" expectations compared to usd fans. It's similar to why NDSU fans are how they are about their football team.

For women's basketball, there is no reason to call people thinking a sweet 16 run was possible or even likely when you return all your starters from a team that was a shot away from making it was arrogant or unreasonable. Any other fan base in the same situation would have thought the same thing. The vast majority of that team was coming back with the added tournament experience. To have less of an aspiration would be silly. It has nothing to do with disrespecting the rest of the Summit League. As for continually being considered a favorite, let's look at some numbers shall we. Over the last ten years 50% of the time the regular season champ has been SDSU. The last three years they have been outside of first place by one game twice and two games once. They almost never miss the big dance and have a couple of wins there. So yeah, they by far have the strongest pedigree in the league and will annually be in the conversation of the favorite. The yotes are still building their pedigree, and generally in the conversation of best teams in the Summit, but need to win the tourney and win in the big dance. The main reason for the angst towards SDSU fans attitudes started with wbb because it's the first big sport the yotes started to be good in on a regular basis and have had the most success in. We consider our program better than yours, because in all measurable stats it is. We have more regular season titles, more SLT titles, and more wins in the big dance. Which irritates you guys to no end, cause you consider your program as equal or even better. Which you should, other wise you don't have a competitive bone in your body and I don't know why you bother being a fan. Realistically though SDSU has much more pedigree behind it. Don't try to smirk at another program for having expectations that generally have the stats to back it up. If anything I wonder why your expectations aren't similarly high.

All our other main sports have had much much more success than yours have. Football and mbb aren't close right now. You had a good year this year, and seem primed to have a good year next year (possibly in both). You need to do it with regularity though to even have the same type of expectations as SDSU fans do. One good season in mbb and shouting "we've arrived" doesn't really do it. Especially after how long you have sucked. Just is what it is. SDSU fans don't have the same expectations or attitude as bison fans yet in football because they have a lot more accomplishments than we have. But our programs getting better every year is growing our fans expectations and pride growing every year with it, which is making the rivalry more and more contentious every year. Especially when we get knocked out of the playoffs by them continually. I totally get where you guys are coming from with hating us, it's the same reason a lot of SDSU fans hate NDSU more than the yotes, almost certainly in football and in basketball as well to an extent. The one team that has beaten us in the games that really matter (playoffs, mbb SLT) has been NDSU, and that really grinds on you after a while.

Oh, and in talking to a buddy who is a bison fan I'm pretty sure the biggest part of the xDSU fans attitudes that bothers the UxDs is how they view the rivalry. Overall across all sports, SDSU fans want to win against the bison more than they don't want to lose because they are more proud of winning against NDSU than they are embarrassed by losing. But against usd, SDSU fans are more worried about not losing instead of winning, because losing to the yotes is just embarrassing. We don't view your athletics as being on our level yet, mostly because in the big three you aren't. Sure you're getting better, but you add being newer to DI (it's embarrassing to lose to a team just out of transition) as well as how bad you were in the recent past, well, it's embarrassing to lose to that.

Great season for the Yotes! Didn't play very well in the 2nd half tonight or we might not be in reflection mode just yet, but there is a lot of pride to have this year. We not only firmly established ourselves in the Summit League this year, WE WON THE SUMMIT LEAGUE. USD basketball has finally and completely arrived in this D1 era, and we will be the team to beat in the Summit for at least the next two years.

Best short term solution for more lower bowl seating for the Yotes is to have SDST lose their opening round games.

If Flack didn't miss a month I'd say he's the team MVP but that honor has to go with Mooney. Flack has more of an all-around game. We're very lucky to have both of them.

Because SDSU have never won the Summit League regular season title, or SL tournament, or been to the basketball NCAA's, Men or Women, or won a couple NCAA basketball tournament games (Women), or had a program ranked top 25 at the highest level nationally (Women, Wrestling). Seriously, congrats on finally putting a Men's basketball team on the court that can compete, but you may want to do a quick review of history.

Oh, and you may want to take a second look at past history. Being a top seed at the SLT and going to the NCAA are two different things. And when you have two teams (IPFW and SDSU) who both have not lived up to expectations but have serious talent on the floor, talent that are capable of going off on you; this could very well be the year a mid to lower seed comes from no where to win the NCAA bid. And on the Women's side? SDSU are still the favorite this year, will be next year, and the year after that. Get used to it, AJ and his band of top 100 recruits aren't going anywhere.