Thanks, obviously I wasn’t Being literal. I think everyone’s level of sensitivity is elevated these days. Especially, many special people who have been ver close to the program for a longtime. certainly, didn’t mean to be inappropriate, my apologies CTO.Now granted, I wasn't an English major at SU, but I seem to recall literary devices like metaphors and idioms to be useful for drawing comparisons between things that, while not exactly alike, share similar themes or characteristics. Not for declaring them to be exact equivalents. Surely the original poster wasn't suggesting that college basketball fortunes are equal in gravity to nuclear war. Given the state of things as of late, and judging by sentiments on this board and heard amongst Syracuse fans in general, I don't think his word choice was wrong or inappropriate.