2022-2023 Season: Games of Interest - Future Opponents

[GMUSSTN]

Difficult as it may be emotionally, I'm thinking that it's better for us to root for vcu over St. Joe's tonight to create more distance between Mason and the Hawks. They have the head-to-head tiebreaker with us and would only lower our winning % if we wind up in a multi-team tie in the middle of the pack.

You may be right, but I've tried to do things like this in the past and I just can't root for vcu under any circumstances.

 

[JimP]

Difficult as it may be emotionally, I'm thinking that it's better for us to root for vcu over St. Joe's tonight to create more distance between Mason and the Hawks. They have the head-to-head tiebreaker with us and would only lower our winning % if we wind up in a multi-team tie in the middle of the pack.

I don't have a problem rooting for vcu if it helps GMU out.

 

[GMU79]

You may be right, but I've tried to do things like this in the past and I just can't root for vcu under any circumstances.

Me too, or either, or neither. Whatever.

 

[GMUgemini]

We aren’t currently tied with anyone, so winning all of our remaining games does the same thing.

 

[psyclone]

We aren’t currently tied with anyone, so winning all of our remaining games does the same thing.

Clearly I'm rooting for us to win each of our remaining games. But tonight I need to root for outcomes that will serve Mason's interest in case we don't win all 3.

 

[GMUgemini]

Clearly I'm rooting for us to win each of our remaining games. But tonight I need to root for outcomes that will serve Mason's interest in case we don't win all 3.

Richmond beating SLU didn’t help much (especially my confidence that we will win that game in Richmond…). There is, what, one game separating us from the PIG?

 

[mkaufman1]

Richmond beating SLU didn’t help much (especially my confidence that we will win that game in Richmond…). There is, what, one game separating us from the PIG?

There are 5 teams with 7 wins and mason has 8. For mason to fall to 10th, they’d probably have to lose all 3 and then get no help. Even then they have a few tiebreakers so they can’t fall all the way down. Also some schools still go head to head.

Most likely they’ll be in that 6-8 spot, and hopefully more towards 6 tor 7.

 

[jessej]

Difficult as it may be emotionally, I'm thinking that it's better for us to root for vcu over St. Joe's tonight to create more distance between Mason and the Hawks. They have the head-to-head tiebreaker with us and would only lower our winning % if we wind up in a multi-team tie in the middle of the pack.

The Strategic Point of View

 

[GMU1983]

You may be right, but I've tried to do things like this in the past and I just can't root for vcu under any circumstances.

you don't get it...

 

[mkaufman1]

you don't get it...

pretty sure he does. Many of us don’t ever want to root for vcu in any circumstance. Simple as that.

 

[GSII]

I don't have a problem rooting for vcu if it helps GMU out.

Hey pal, It's vcu ...lower case.

 

[GMUgemini]

pretty sure he does. Many of us don’t ever want to root for vcu in any circumstance. Simple as that.

It’s the curse of 2011. Everyone said their run was great for us and for the conference and we should be rooting for them. Long story short…it wasn’t.

 

[GMU79]

pretty sure he does. Many of us don’t ever want to root for vcu in any circumstance. Simple as that.

Yep. UNC fans will never root for dook and vice versa. Regardless of the stakes involved.

 

[GMUSSTN]

you don't get it...

I assure you I do

 

[GMU1983]

We are not in the ACC as you all know. Always pull for A 10 out of conference and in conference when it helps us!

 

[mkaufman1]

We are not in the ACC as you all know. Always pull for A 10 out of conference and in conference when it helps us!

Yes, but anyone other than vcu. Always.

 

[MasonFanatic]

I think the last time I rooted for vcu was their Sweet 16 game in 2011.

I did not want them to match or exceed our run. I was fine with them getting as far as the Elite 8.

 

[GMU79]

I think the last time I rooted for vcu was their Sweet 16 game in 2011.

I did not want them to match or exceed our run. I was fine with them getting as far as the Elite 8.

That was my feeling too.

 

[GMU79]

We are not in the ACC as you all know. Always pull for A 10 out of conference and in conference when it helps us!

The conference has nothing to do with it. It could be high school for all I care. Sometimes your mortal enemy is just that. Period.

 

[GMUSSTN]

I would still never do it, but I could see rooting for vcu in a scenario where we had at-large implications and we already had a win over them. But especially this season, where the entire conference is a dumpster fire, at least give me the satisfaction of knowing that vcu fans are unhappy.

The ideal future would be vcu getting some kind of pseudo death penalty, vacated wins, a new president who reroutes all their basketball funding to the School of Finger Painting, and they fumble around one 2-3-4 conf. win season in perpetuity. I sat through enough of their garbage over the years that I wish the entire program would go away.

The fact that we aren't even close to competing with them and that they have made the better basketball decision at every turn is salt in the wound. I want nothing for them but rot.