George Freakin' Mason?!?!
Seriously? The CAA has a team in the Final Four? THE Final Four? The tournament on TV that's held in 30,000 plus seat stadiums with the entire country watching is going to include a team from the same conference that UNCW won this year?I still have not finished pinching myself. I am utterly amazed at how the Patriots were able to get hot at the right time and cruise all the way into the last weekend of the college basketball season.
Let's take ourselves back a few weeks. As UNCW and CAA fans, our greatest hope was that more than one team would get a chance to dance. And as CAA fans, we go into the tournament with realistic hopes of the conference representative maybe winning a game or two.
But now George Mason has gone and ruined that. Now...a win or two in the tournament will be looked at as "cute". People who follow this conference will now say, "Yeah, but they didn't go to the Final Four like George Mason did." Expectations will now get completely out of wack.
Poor Brad Brownell. I feel bad for him. He can't go to the boosters now and point out with a smile the fact that they've been to 4 NCAA Tournaments in 7 years. People are going to wonder why they've never made it to at least the Sweet 16.
The CAA has a team in the Final Four. THE Final Four. I still can't freakin' believe it!
posted by T.J. Cutini @ 10:31 PM
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It'll be the Gonzaga syndrome. They made one elite 8, came back the following year as a higher seed and have had good teams ever since. But they are considered a disappointment if they don't make the Final Four now. It's good for the program, as I'm sure they'll get the other part of the Gonzaga syndrome, and that's better recruits. I'm sure Georgetown isn't too happy either, since they are near GMU, and GMU could be stealing recruits now.
Great thoughts, especially with Georgetown. Gonzaga got good while Washington, Washington State, Oregon, and Oregon State were down. Now, look. Only Washington has really been able to get back up near the top of college hoops. The rest of those guys lose recruits to the Zags on a regular basis.
T J if you still want to play in the baseball league we have two spots open for you, and Kolby. You have untill 2:15 today. I saved the last two for you guys The bird hopes you keep your word, thanks jaybird #266859, jaybird= yahoo sports
tank you TJ, you are the man. I have no doubts about what kind of person you are. You are a man of your word. thanks again
gregz we have 9 teams with one more spot, maybe kolby will fill it up, looks like we alright!
You make some valid points, but I think we all need to just enjoy the run while it lasts. Right now, we have this almost Disney-movie coach and team who care as much about having fun and academics as they do about winning. They're playing well, we hope they go all the way, but even moreso we hope that this isn't the point when our innocent athletics program turns into scouting and scholarships and cars and hookers for our players.
As a GMU alumni, I especially enjoyed your post. In fact, I included a link to it in my blog entry today: http://www.frankmurphy.com/2006/03/jubilation.html
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