Monday, March 21, 2005

Things I Learned, NCAA Weekend One:

- This year's Spring Break is, "Going to bite!" Ahhhhh sharks!!!!! Ahhhhh random girl from the OC!!!!!

- As the crowd at both MSG and the DCU Center infromed us all, "BC SUCKS, BC SUCKS, BC SUCKS!!!"

- The UW - Milwaukee basketball team is better than BC and Alabama, BUT is their hockey team destined to choke away a number one overall seed? I think not! HA! Wait...

- NCAA opening day + St. Patrick's Day in Boston = 1. no idea what happened in the late night games, 2. no chance of seeing the first half of Friday's games, 3. pain, lots of pain.

- If you are the mascot of a college hoops team God's sense of humor demands that a decade or so later when you are the head coach of a mid major commuter school in Wisconsin playing your former school that you will embarass them on national tv and force Sportscenter to dig up footage of your mascotting days to run 1,000,000,000 times over the next 12 hours, driving many of the people who pounded on you everyday in college for being "Baldwin" to hurl themselves off of rooftops.

- If you want to win your NCAA pool, take my bracket exclude the 1 v. 16 and 2 v. 15 games, flip it and reverse it and you've got a winner.

- If I were a blue chipper I'd be calling Tom Brennan right now begging him to get a job somewhere and to give me a scholarship, hell I'd pay to play for that guy, he's just cool with tons of class. Vermont beat Syracuse and almost beat Michigan State on guts and confidence instilled in them by their coach. An overachieving team is the ultimate measure of a great leader and Tom Brennan is ceratainly that.

- If I were Tom Brennan I'd pimp slap that whiny "Duke Arrogant" bitch Jay Bilas, take his job on ESPN, and subsequently up the ratings of College Game Night by a thousand percent. The guy's morning show in Vermont pounds on Howard Stern!

- Wake Forest is the late '90s Phil Mickelson of college basketball.

- Hakim Warrick: OUT, Craig Smith: OUT, Jarret Jack: OUT, Gerry McNamara: OUT, Charlie Villanueva: OUT, Wayne Simien: OUT.....Chris Gamsey: IN, Kevin Pittsnogle: IN, PITTSNOGLE!!!! IN!!!!! PITTSNOGLE!!!!!!!!!

- I absolutely loved to watch Gamsey from West Virginia, that kid has balls the size of watermelons. 19 in 2 overtimes against Wake players twice as athletic as him.

- Freakin' PITTSNOGLE who (twitch twitch) TORCHED BC in the Big East tournament, wasn't even on the floor for most of the overtimes against Wake. He's a damn scrub! Someone please fire Al Skinner, this is like BC-gate, he couldn't come up with a game plan for PITTSNOGLE!!!!!! Don't fire him, make him spend a day on the PITTSNOGLE ranch in West Virginia. You'll find him outside of Fenway passing out flyer's with the crazy "Convert or you will burn in Hell" guy. PITTSNOGLE!!!!!

- Hate 'em or love 'em Duke just gets it done. 8 straight sweet sixteens, the next longest streak is 2. They were supposed to finish 4th in the ACC, they won the tournament and ended the season 5th in the nation. You have to give it to them, Ewing finally hits the jumper, Reddick can take a mid range shot in traffic this year, and Williams is just a monster inside. They might not win it all but with no bench and the injury to Dockery what they've accomplished is really impressive.

- If UNC comes to play every weekend they will win this tournament. Illinois would have no answer for Sean May, he eats pieces of shit like Augustine for breakfast ("You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?" HA...sorry). Illinois guards are better, but not immeasurably and UNC has a longer bench. After week one it looks like they're the only two with a chance.

- Louisville can go a long way in this tournament, Garcia is a legit player and they are as fast as any team that isn't called the Illini. After what they did to the resurgent GTech team yesterday they look scary to anyone who has to face them.

- This just in, I don't know if you've heard, there's a show on CBS called "Everybody Loves Raymond". It flies under the radar because CBS never advertises it. Apparently there is also a show called "Survivor", also under-advertised.

- (inner monologue) "Wow what a great play...I will watch America's most watched network. CBS is my God I must know what America voted as the number one "Raymond" episode of all time, who will be the ultimate survivor, there is no tradition like the Masters, IwillnowbreakmyremotecontrolsoIcanalwayswatchCBS...."

- Find the highlights of the Hopkins I-AA playoff game. A Hopkins player hits the game winner sitting on his ass, literally. It's the most amazing buzzer beater you will ever see.

- Never cheer for a big time BC team, just forget it. This has to go down as one of the all time worst collapses in NCAAA history. 20-0 to 25-5, and out in the second round to a 12 seed. Yes this reflects badly on the players. Yes, they played shitty defense against Milwaukee. Yes, Marshall missed both free throws with 45 seconds to play with BC down 5. Yes, Nate Doornekamp is the most worthless 7 footer in the universe (and any coach with half a brain would have played Williams the entire second half). That being said, after 2 days to consider it I put this collapse on Al Skinner. As I said before, an overachieving team is a testament to a great leader, thus the opposite is also true, an underachieving team is a sign of weak leadership. For the last 5 weeks this team has looked unprepared and unmotivated with losses coming to inferior competition. They just laid down and died in front of Pitt, they forgot to show up for the first 23 minutes against West Virginia, and only played the first 3 minutes against Milwaukee. Their lack of focus and lack of heart is the reason they'll be watching the rest of this tournament and as a BC fan that makes me sick. It won't happen but Al Skinner should be out of the job right now for letting his team quit on him, and allowing them to think they could coast down the stretch and turn it on under the bright lights of the NCAAs. BC should start fresh in the ACC with a coach that can get the maximum out of his players for a 35 game season, not just the first 20.

- This years Spring Break is, "Going to bite!!!" Ahhhhh!!!!! Sharks!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!! Repeat Blog entries!!!!!!!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Spring Break? Break from what? Are you still in college? Or are you in High School?

Anonymous said...

If you don't get the Spring Break joke you didn't watch a single minute of the tournament this weekend you stupid ass. CBS beat their ads for their show "Spring Break - Shark Attack" down our throats during every commercial break

MGB said...

After furthur consideration and after learning the whole story I take back my statement about the Hopkins seated buzzer beater being the best you will ever see.
First, it was a high school state championship game in Minnesota, so...yea..
Second, and more importantly it didn't actually win the game it only forced double overtime, which while awesome is not as good as Laetner, Jordan over Elho, etc.
Sorry...not like anyone cares.