Dear Saluki Players
 

As an alumni and a huge fan, I want to say thank you for how you played tonight. I AM EXTREMELY PROUD of you guys tonight. A special thank you to Tatem and Young, who went out like seniors should and Shaw was out there on one ankle (look how he was short-stepping everything). While extremely disappointed right now in the outcome, you represented SALUKI NATION and showed why we should be considered a top 20 team on a consistent basis. Even myself, one of the most optimistic SIU fans of all time, didn't believe 100%, and for that I am sorry.

Good luck Tatem and Young in the future, you both have meant alot and we are proud that you are part of the SALUKI NATION.

Scav

do you think some of their players might actually be members on this site?

150-1 says no.

serious question, but I just say its 150-1 that any are, but I was just saying, who knows who is a member here and who isn't.

these guys get the credit...they busted more pools year by year than gazonga

Dude, I was expressing my emotions essentially, if I could, I would personally thank them in person because I appreciate heart/pain/passion more then I appreciate talent. People don't respect talent, they respect passion and EVERY ONE of those Salukis has PASSION

I love heart, pain, and passion as much as the rest, but if that isn't getting me the W's then it really doesn't matter to me. Maybe thats just because ND fans expect a little more, and don't just settle.

I'd like to thank them for making this baller 3-teamer my bro split with me possible.

Go Vols!!!

ND fans have not been settling, and we will not settle and be happy until we win the National Championship. That doesn't mean we won't support our team, but anything less than the championship is a little dissapointing. Higher expecations as always for our beloved Notre Dame.

If it doesn't matter to you then you miss one of the essential qualities of ATHLETICS, COMPETITION, and Atmosphere.

To use an old school saying, it isn't if you win or lose, it is how you play the game.

If you play the game like the Salukis do, you will win. If Notre Dame had HALF the heart and passion that SIU had, in ANY of their athletics, they would easily win a national title. They are spoonfed.

And as far as College football game, it is the biggest crock of crap their is. Lets have 15 people sit in a room and pick two teams out of a bizillion to play for one title. It wouldn't make sense to pick 16 teams and let them play for it.

Scavs, your team played some of the best basketball I've seen in a while. They their pace on a very good kansas team. They were playing a team that was more athletic, stronger, deeper,quicker, and taller, yet they never quit. I'll take a team like that any day.

Thanks Skippy, it is a great feeling to be proud of a team that you follow, it really is. Winning is great, trust me, I would have rather won this friggin game, but this team showed so much to the public, the media, and to the fans that it almost didn't matter who won the game. I fully expect to be in the top 15 next year, and hopefully some of these bigger schools will give us a shot, Lowery will play anyone anywhere, that I know for a fact

HAHAHAHA Are you kidding me, you really thinking SIU has more heart than Notre Dame. Just because SIU doesn't get the media coverage that ND gets, doesn't mean ND has less heart. Notre Dame was built on heart, toughness, and tradition. Notre Dame hasn't been getting the recruits they have wanted do to academic standards, and heart alone isn't going to win you a Championship when you play with the big boys, maybe if your SIU and you play with the Mid Majors it might.

O, and by the way, if you want to talk heart let us talk about Notre Dames mens hockey team. Really, they were projected to be nothing this year. They have already won the CCH regular season title, and the CCH playoff title (both first in school history). This team was projected to be nothing by everyone, and look at what they are doing. They have a great shot at being National Champions, the road for them starts tomorrow.

GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!

What has NOTRE DAME done in the last 10 years anyways? NOTHING. Notre Dame is a bunch of spoonfed athletes that haven't had to EARN anything. To play basketball at SIU, you have to EARN your way on the team, you have to play 1 on 1 against someone at your position until Lowery says STOP. He had Tatem going against Young until they were almost HOSPITALIZED. THEY EARNED team respect. They earned their coaches respect.

Like people respected Brady Quinn, all he cared about was his NFL contract. Trust me, I know ALOT about Notre Dame, I live in their biggest alumni area and have been to many games. Notre Dame was built on CASH, not on anything you are describing. Go watch Rudy again and believe that is actually what happened.

Notre Dame hater be gone. Just cause you wish SIU had just a little bit of the traditon and glory that is Notre Dame, it's ok, I understand. We are talking the Class of Division 1 athletics, and some mid major.

and Scavs, name one powerhouse program who doesn't have these so called "spoonfed" athletes that you speak of. Not possible, all you can name is the shitty mid majors, and the only reason these guys aren't spoonfed is because they couldn't hold Brady Quinns jock.

You act like noone gives a **** about hockey. I love Horse Racing, but how many people that aren't involved in the sport really give a **** about it? Hockey has a lot more fans than horse racing.

If Tennessee doesn't cover i'm putting this computer in my car on the way to western union and throwing the god damn thing over the bridge.

Yeah a bunch of Canadian and Russian douchebags.

please, fill me in on all the horse racing fans in America compared to hockey.

Your off your rocker....Hockey gets lower ratings then some cartoons...

And as far as arguing with you, it is pointless because you are blinded by the BS auro that NOTRE DAME supposedly has.....

I will tell you this, SIU would have smoked Notre Dame this year, and probably the last three years in Basketball, and our NCAA Division 1AA team would have probably played you hard for 3 quarters because you guys sucked, and will continue to suck until they have players that have heart and stop thinking about the next level

Hoss, they have watched Rudy too many times, that is the issue

I love the movie, but I know about 20 people that I have what I consider Rudyitis and it involves their unrealistic thoughts about how good Notre Dame is because of a dude where the movie is based on, with alot true, and a couple major things reported incorrectly

This is a public forum so I thought I would join the fray. One of Notre Dame's problems is they haven't been playing with the BIG BOYS. Outside of the USC game at Notre Dame they have been pimp slapped by the BIG BOYS. They're popularity is their own worst enemy right now. ND is getting in bowl games they don't deserve to be in simply because they are ND. Only one major problem with that for ND, unfortunately their opponents have deserved to be there and have made that more than obvious while playing against ND. They desperatly need some wins with substance behind them which they haven't had of late.

College football is ridiculous, you hit it right on the head, they get into bowl games because they travel well

want to talk football scavs, I love ND basketball, but ND is a football school my man.

I just looked at SIUs bball schedule and results from this year, and can you please tell me one real team they played and beat, I would like to hear it. Losing to Bradley, Evansville, who is Evansville???? They did get a big win over Va Tech this year however. SIU was not a good team, and they had a cake road to the sweet 16. Holy Cross and Va Tech are WEAK, if they would have played a real team they would have been done.

I'm sorry I focus on more than one sport Dahoss.

Irish slow down buddy, I'm a big ND fan, but you are bordering on lunacy here. ND has not been solid in football or basketball in 10 years. This years ND basketball team was a joke. Winthrop please, SIU played one of the top 5 teams in the country on a neutral court and came up just short. Why are you talking about ND having heart when SIU won 2 more games then they did in the dance.

College Hockey has like 10 fans

If you can't talk sports dahoss, go back to horse racing, it seems like the only thing you know. I've talked about all ND athletics yes, but I have placed it in the Sports Bar side and you come to read. Without people talking about their teams, what would this side be made of. I guess when ND loses (such as SIU) I should come on here and give my congratulations to the team so that I don't have to take sh1t for talking about them before the game, apparently that works.

your not an ND fan if you think this years ND bball team was a joke. They overachieved big time, they were picked to finish like 14th in the Big East, and finished 4th. They got a sh1tty draw and drew Winthrop, who was better than an 11 seed really. It was a tough loss, butno shame in it.