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[QUOTE="bballbeadle, post: 1583282, member: 548"]
Shark, that was deep! Maybe I'm saying that because it articulates my own muddled, swirling thoughts. The tormented cry of Job echoing throughout the millennia: "WHY ME????" Or the plaintive cry through the phone of the innocent Schwartz as he's getting waled upon, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" Or perhaps the somber introspection of: "We have met the enemy and he is us."

No one likes to feel like a victim. It's also true that the innocent can be punished. Syracuse is not innocent, but hey, they're not that bad, either. We like things to fall into neat categories and we demand justice, and have no idea what that would look like. But we feel pretty damn certain it shouldn't look like [I]this.[/I]

One would think going through this grueling experience would help us feel compassion or reserve judgment about what's going on with other programs. But more often than not it's, "Ha ha! Louisville!" or "Ha ha! Carolina!"

"Do not send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee."

I am just glad that this wretched mess is drawing to a conclusion. At last!! Can we take down the NCAA board now? Can we just get through this suspension and then go forward, cleanly, into the light? I for one am going to try hard to do that.

p.s. Oh, and Shark? I think there are a couple people in the NCAA and a few people in sports media who dislike us intensely for reasons that are complicated and undoubtedly go back to childhoods where they were treated cruelly. Like Schwartz.
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