Ragman2000
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This might run a little bit long, but I need to put down my nightly scotch to tell people how much I've been dreading and looking forward to this game for the last decade.
Many of you know me, but grew up in CNY. 2 degrees from the Cuse. I've been living in Bloomington, Indiana since June of 2003. Interviewed for my current job the day before we played Texas en route to the national title, watched the game that Saturday from my hotel room. Mentioned this on the board before, but visited an empty Assembly Hall the morning of the game just to check it out (literally walked right in), and hawked a loogie on the floor of the upper deck staring at the '87 banner. I take full credit for exorcising the demons.
Wife graduated from IU with her PhD. Went to a crappy sports school for undergrad (a new member of 's new conference ironically), so IU is her adopted team. Tom Crean and his family go to my church. For as big of a douche as he is on the sidelines, and make no mistake, he is a raging douche, the guy and his family are top notch people in real life. Regular people if there is such a thing. I work with 1000 hardcore IU fans. And every single one of them, and I mean every one, knows I bleed orange. Thankfully I work with a few more Cuse grads (my industry brings them out here), but none are as diehard is jolly old Ragman.
Bloomington is a great little Norman Rockwell town, and I've grown to not hate IU over the years. Mostly because they've sucked for so damn long. Between the disaster that was Mike Davis, to the nuclear bomb that was Kelvin Sampson, to Dakich and Crean, you have no idea how much these fans have suffered. Imagine if we just sucked for a decade. I mean really sucked. That's what IU fans have had to deal with. There was a point just a few years ago where Brnfvrcuse or whatever the and Brandon Reese could have been the starting backcourt. And that is no exaggeration.
So I'm happy that they are competing again, because the Shadenfreude of watching IU fans suffer wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Water cooler conversation the last decade has basically been a pity party, and that's no fun.
But now IU is pretty good. And the elitist attitude is coming out, even in my closest friends here.
Since I lack a crystal ball, I have no idea when Cuse and IU will ever play again. I have at least another decade of bragging rights on the line in the game. Not just in my own house, but every damn day when I go to work. I can live with a loss in the Elite 8, but this game is a must win. My trashtalk will be legendary this week. Please Orange...I've backed you all these years, do me a solid and back me up on this one. Means almost as much as a National Championship to me.
Tom Crean
my co-workers
my bandwagon spouse
one of my 2-year old twins whom my wife taught to say "Go IU!" today
the stress of this week
just because
and please God, if you're up there, Indiana.
Amen.
Many of you know me, but grew up in CNY. 2 degrees from the Cuse. I've been living in Bloomington, Indiana since June of 2003. Interviewed for my current job the day before we played Texas en route to the national title, watched the game that Saturday from my hotel room. Mentioned this on the board before, but visited an empty Assembly Hall the morning of the game just to check it out (literally walked right in), and hawked a loogie on the floor of the upper deck staring at the '87 banner. I take full credit for exorcising the demons.
Wife graduated from IU with her PhD. Went to a crappy sports school for undergrad (a new member of 's new conference ironically), so IU is her adopted team. Tom Crean and his family go to my church. For as big of a douche as he is on the sidelines, and make no mistake, he is a raging douche, the guy and his family are top notch people in real life. Regular people if there is such a thing. I work with 1000 hardcore IU fans. And every single one of them, and I mean every one, knows I bleed orange. Thankfully I work with a few more Cuse grads (my industry brings them out here), but none are as diehard is jolly old Ragman.
Bloomington is a great little Norman Rockwell town, and I've grown to not hate IU over the years. Mostly because they've sucked for so damn long. Between the disaster that was Mike Davis, to the nuclear bomb that was Kelvin Sampson, to Dakich and Crean, you have no idea how much these fans have suffered. Imagine if we just sucked for a decade. I mean really sucked. That's what IU fans have had to deal with. There was a point just a few years ago where Brnfvrcuse or whatever the and Brandon Reese could have been the starting backcourt. And that is no exaggeration.
So I'm happy that they are competing again, because the Shadenfreude of watching IU fans suffer wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Water cooler conversation the last decade has basically been a pity party, and that's no fun.
But now IU is pretty good. And the elitist attitude is coming out, even in my closest friends here.
Since I lack a crystal ball, I have no idea when Cuse and IU will ever play again. I have at least another decade of bragging rights on the line in the game. Not just in my own house, but every damn day when I go to work. I can live with a loss in the Elite 8, but this game is a must win. My trashtalk will be legendary this week. Please Orange...I've backed you all these years, do me a solid and back me up on this one. Means almost as much as a National Championship to me.
Tom Crean
my co-workers
my bandwagon spouse
one of my 2-year old twins whom my wife taught to say "Go IU!" today
the stress of this week
just because
and please God, if you're up there, Indiana.
Amen.
