Fat Ass Majerus slams Pac-10

[gjn23]

After hearing him bash the pac-10 as being a lower level conference and with inferior talent when compared to the "power" conferences, I decided to check into a few things.
(said this at half of ill-iowa)

Since the 1998 draft, more players were drafted coming out of the Pac-10, than any other of the big six conference.

Pac-10: 38 players taken in seven years (average of 5.43 per draft)
ACC: 35 players taken in seven years (average of 5.00 per draft)
Big East: 29 players taken in seven years (average of 4.14 per draft)
Big Ten: 29 players taken in seven years (average of 4.14 per draft)
Big 12: 26 players taken in seven years (average of 4.14 per draft)
SEC: 25 players taken in seven years (average of 3.57 per draft)

Pretty weak and inferior...apparently the NBA realized there is basketball played out on the west coast....too bad the talking heads of college basketball have no clue.

 

[Clem D]

Well if you think about it as a team game like Majerus does you can see his point.
This is not vintage pac 10 the last couple of years.

Arizona obviously is a top 10 program, meaning they are very good year in year out. Washington is very tough this year, but when graduation hits they will be back in the cellar. Ucla is down but coming in the next two years. Compared with the other big conferences the Pac 10 is weaker top to bottom.

 

[thisisbad]

I know i will get slammed, but i didn't think he meant Pac-10 historically, i thought he meant this year how could they be ranked number 2 RPI, when most people don't consider them the second best conference this year.

This is not meant to be a smart aleck question, but do you (or anyone reading) consider them the second best conference?

I would love it if anyone respondin do so intelligently, not resort to bashin.

 

[johnnyb.]

someone off camera was dangling a cream puff and diet coke, got him to say anything espn wanted. remember espn doesn't not have a pac-10 tv contract, fox does. behind acc, pac-10 next toughest conference!

 

[gjn23]

i think we all agree that top teams and programs are in every conference

i think is the middle of the road and lower teams that are "percieved" to be much stronger in other conferences. every other conference has 2-6 more teams than the pac-10 so they are considered stronger....but are they really? is south carolina-texas am-va tech-etc that much better (if at all) than say oregon state??????

my opinion is no.

 

[volfan]

NBA likes scorers, PAC 10 is full of em. Don't play a lot of D but when you score like they do, screw D:shrug:

 

[Clem D]

Good points in here. I would say the pac 10 top 4 teams are weaker than the Acc and the bigeast. Big 10 would be close. Sec also. Just based on the top 4.

I see your point about top to bottom, and I need to look deeper to make a judgement.
Good topic

 

[Scott4USC]

Since the 1998 draft, more players were drafted coming out of the Pac-10, than any other of the big six conference.

Pac-10: 38 players taken in seven years (average of 5.43 per draft)
ACC: 35 players taken in seven years (average of 5.00 per draft)
Big East: 29 players taken in seven years (average of 4.14 per draft)
Big Ten: 29 players taken in seven years (average of 4.14 per draft)
Big 12: 26 players taken in seven years (average of 4.14 per draft)
SEC: 25 players taken in seven years (average of 3.57 per draft)

Pretty weak and inferior...apparently the NBA realized there is basketball played out on the west coast....too bad the talking heads of college basketball have no clue.

Those are amazing stats especially when you consider the Pac 10 has 10 teams in their conf. Other conf. have more teams. To be fair, you should take the # of players drafted and divide by # of teams in the conf. Then the Pac 10 really separates!

Glad Majerus resigned at USC. I am expecting big things from Floyd and with USC building a brand new state of the art arena, USC will be a contender. Give Floyd 3 years.

 

[ststrl]

Only thing Majerus should be slamming is a defibulator to his chest.

PAC-10 never gets respect.

 

[Pujo21]

Is that why he accepted the USC job and quit days later ??

The Big Bad Wolf is gonna huff and puff and blow his house down. He'll shat if Arizona gets to the Final Bracket.

 

[MrBubbles]

The Pac 10 hasn't done anything in the NCAA tourney in recent years. Look at Stanford last year. They consistently have their conference top dog bow out early as of late. That's the best barometer in my opinion.