59 ordspråk av Mike Tranghese
Mike Tranghese
[That is how a season starts, after 26 seasons that led to a new starting line.] Twenty years from now, ... people are going to be saying, 'Look at the people in this picture.'
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a formula for disaster.
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Everybody keeps telling me we're too big,
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Everybody keeps telling me we're too big. We're all too big. We're just bigger than others.
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Five new members makes us not only bigger, but better in terms of overall depth.
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I am absolutely convinced that we can get a lot of teams in if they do what they are supposed to do. The selection committee has good people, and they'll be fair about it. They know how good we are.
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I can tell you that our coaches and athletic directors and presidents have all told me in the strongest terms where they want to be long term is they want everybody playing everybody at least once, ... They feel very strongly that if you're going to be in a conference, that any team not to be playing another team is just not the right thing to do. We have some of that right now and I think we're uncomfortable with that but we were left with little choice.
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I don't know if I've ever seen anything as remarkable. Connecticut played well but George Mason played out of [its] mind. It reminded me of the night Villanova beat Georgetown [in 1985 to win the national title].
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I don't think it can hurt. I think anything we do to excel, to demonstrate our ability to continue to compete at a high level can only help us.
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I have nothing to apologize for. My conference has nothing to apologize for.
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I just think me saying anything, all it does, it doesn't help. I don't see what I have to gain by talking about it.
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I keep hearing the question, 'Are we going to survive?'
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I never talked about numbers with our people, ... I just said obviously with the kind of quality that we have there's no reason to think that we can't generate more teams qualifying for the tournament. I think this is historical. This is a path that no one's ever traveled before, this many good teams in one league. What's it going to lead to?
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I think the consensus, nationally, is that he is the most improved player in the country.
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I think there are going to be a lot of eyes on us. We've gotten all this praise all year; now we have to go play. We've got good teams with a chance to do some good things. I think if we don't do well, we'll get criticized.
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