Being a "die-hard"/compulsive college basketball fan, this is the time of year I live for. We are on the verge of a the tournament which defines what a tournament should be. The conclussion to a sporting season that never fails to thrill, excite, and make someone a little dough in the meantime. Yes, ladies in gentleman, we are about to enter bracketville!!
I couldn't be more ready to get into it. I find myself trying to jump the gun. Forcing it, if you will. I'm seeking out espn trying to get some of that March "juice"...only to find some minor conferences being their unspectacular self and I just can't get into it. That's right, the man who loves Rudy, the man who considers Remember the Titans and Hoosiers classics, this same man hates small conferences and their little tourneys. That is my confession and I know some of you gasp at the thought. I must admit to you that championship week, for me, begins Wednesday night. I have never apologized about that fact that, whether it be football or basketball, that I am a big conference guy. I want the best athletes, the guys born and bred to play ball on the big stage. I find little pageantry in these no nothing schools, with lesser athletes, hell...with lesser fans, trying to come out of nowhere and beat the big boys. Let these smaller conferences loose their sh*t when they win their itty bitty conference. Let them hope and dream. Let them join the field of 65. Because I know, everybody knows, that even if they pull a ridiculous upset out and "bust a bracket" they will never win it all. They will ultimately win nothing. George Mason was a fluke...and they didn't even win sh*t. They just got lucky and then got beat down like everyone knew they ultimately would. F them, forever...and every school like them. Me, well I, I will take the North Carolinas, the Uconn's, the UCLA's....that's right, I will take the big boy schools from the big boy conferences who ultimately end up holding that trophy at the end of one shining moment.
The fact that a team like George Mason or William and Mary even get to share the court with real basketball teams makes me sure of only one thing...the sun even shines on a dogs ass now and then. Big conferences...FOREVER.
"the ball is tipped...and their you are..." (It's that time of year again folks). Be more excited.
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what about........val-POOOOO!
Put on your Ole green bonnet,
with the yellow ribbon on it;
and we'll drink 6 friars to the grave
though we aint got knowledge,
we're a damn good college!
S-I-E-N-A!
WE ARE 65!!!! First time since 2002!
Sorry Dot load...PRIDE! Hopefully we'll lose by less than 15.
--The Bunco
I smell a UCONN first round upset.
CAA- Connecticut Assasin Association
-Jim Larenega
Jeremy just invented hitting below the belt.
Trey is the ooh child.
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