I was at a bar last night that was filled with ECU fans. It was pretty exciting, and a bit annoying.

4/3/2013 10:26:37 AM

I have either: A) never heard of the CIT before today, or B) heard about it so long ago and forgot about it so quick, it's not even buried in my subconscience anywhere

tl;dr - fuck ECU and their ridiculous "championship"


\\ Old Spice 4 life nicca

4/3/2013 10:50:39 AM

the sad thing is that EZU has won more national tournament championships in the last week than NC State has won in the last 30 years. or something like that /EZU fans

4/3/2013 10:53:19 AM

That trophy looks like an 8th grade project in shop class

4/3/2013 11:05:13 AM

Based of the ad on the CIT website, I'd say this is who made it: http://www.trophyawards.com/

Confirmed by clicking Custom Awards

[Edited on April 3, 2013 at 11:15 AM. Reason : . ]

4/3/2013 11:14:50 AM

dat trophy

4/3/2013 12:05:28 PM

Congrats ECU. Only 4 teams end the season with a win.

4/3/2013 12:12:39 PM

EZU beat Weber State in a post season game?

EZU > unc

4/3/2013 12:13:07 PM

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/salaries/ncaab/coach/

4/3/2013 12:16:00 PM

UNC getting quite the bargain...

4/3/2013 12:23:16 PM

^
Where was Kentucky and lol at North Carolina Tech.

4/3/2013 12:23:26 PM

Athletic Directors

1. David Williams-Vanderbilt- $3,239,678
2. Tom Jurich- Louisville- $1,401,915



[Edited on April 3, 2013 at 12:27 PM. Reason : add another note]

4/3/2013 12:27:06 PM

must not have had the numbers. No way Cal makes less than $1M per year

4/3/2013 12:27:56 PM

Yeah I think I read somewhere he makes over 5 mil.

4/3/2013 12:29:16 PM

Those are just the listing of the teams that made the tournament this year, minus 6 private schools

4/3/2013 12:37:07 PM

derp

4/3/2013 12:56:58 PM

Pretty sure Vanderbilt doesnt have an AD so that guy is like their president or something

4/3/2013 1:39:13 PM

Quote :

"Only 4 teams end the season with a win."

I hope you are joking...

4/3/2013 1:47:03 PM

Quote :

"Pretty sure Vanderbilt doesnt have an AD so that guy is like their president or something"

Makes sense.

4/3/2013 1:48:25 PM

those numbers are misleading. pretty much all those coaches also get shoe money + money for their coaches show and shit.

4/3/2013 1:51:43 PM

I actually watched the end of that ECU game, and the "head" of the CIT was reading the All-CIT Tournament team off of his phone

it was amazing

4/3/2013 1:58:26 PM

that shit was actually on tv?

4/3/2013 2:03:32 PM

yep

CBS Sports Network

4/3/2013 2:04:58 PM

I work at ECU, and everyone on campus is super-excited. The bookstore is selling CIT Champions T-shirts today.

4/3/2013 2:49:24 PM

That's hilarious.

4/3/2013 2:51:35 PM

I had several ECU fans on facebook saying things like ECU is playing for a championship cant say the same for all those other NC schools. When I responded that third tier tournaments dont count and any school would trade a CIT championship for a first round exit in the tournament that actually counts, they were convinced winning that shit tourney was better. That is why their program is so shitty haha.

4/3/2013 3:39:44 PM

baby steps over there in greenville.

baby steps.

4/3/2013 3:43:24 PM

Ahhhahah, looks like some fellas over at an ECU message board took a page out of TWW's book. They had a "poll skew time" of their own to take down Clowney's hit as Sportscenter's "Best of the Best".

http://boneyardbanter.com/message_board/banter/2013/April/3/1393034.php
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/polls

4/3/2013 4:42:17 PM

Quote :

"CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Lorenzo Brown had 16 points and Scott Wood 13 as North Carolina State blew out state rival East Carolina, 85-65, at the Charleston Classic on Thursday night."

4/3/2013 4:51:23 PM

old big east -> american athletic conference

4/3/2013 6:23:37 PM

if we had the horrid basketball tradition like they do, we'd be excited about a CIT Championship too.

Fortunately, we don't don't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5nklxLWIro

4/5/2013 10:13:57 AM

I'll say this. UConn treated the NIT championship as a HUGE deal in the 80s (http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-men/hc-1988-nit-uconn-0329-20130328,0,4724122.story). They used it as a stepping stone to build the program in to a power in the region and eventually the nation.

ECU will never do that because their footprint potential isn't the same but every program has to start somewhere..

[Edited on April 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM. Reason : X]

4/5/2013 10:17:23 AM

that Surface tablet commercial gets dumber and dumber every time I see it

4/6/2013 5:42:35 PM