What happened man, you used to be cool. Every year somehow at least one of you was a surefire way to separate the wheat from the chaff in an office pool. Some years a few of you would upset some hapless 5 seeds and really make some noise. Hell, my team has fallen victim to your shenanigans twice! What happened? Did the selection committee finally stop stocking you with scrappy "mid-major" underdogs and instead replace you with underachieving, milquetoast "big conference" bubble teams (in their nearly successful attempt to rid the first rounds of any meaningful upsets)? What's that you say, 11-6 came through twice? Please. That's for suckers afraid of taking a stand (and besides, those 6 seeds were vastly overrated media darlings). Hell, it might as well be 10-7. It lacks the panache that only a 12-5 can bring to the table. I just want the magic back, 12-5. I know, next year.
Also, thanks to the nonstop pimping they receive from certain media outlets, I was led to believe that the ACC was the OMG! greatest conference EVAR!!!!!1!!! And the Big10 was not far behind it. Well, well, well. How wrong you were. Looks like those "power" conferences managed to squeak by with one team each (the #1 seed, unsurprisingly) into the Sweet 16. I'm sure the Big 10 commish is writing a letter lamenting how his slow, plodding, pillars of ethics, Rhodes scholars-to-be didn't have a chance. On a postive note, if they ever take Ambien off the market, the first half of the UCLA-Indiana game can be used as a sleep aid.
And finally, congrats to the Dogs for making the Semi's of the "other" tourney.
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