SWC75
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- I confess I stopped hating Georgetown years ago after Big John left. It stopped being the War against the Evil Empire and just became an old rivalry- one we came to dominate.
- But those two losses to them and Big John's insistence on getting his two cents in made it seem like the old days.
- Rooting for Big East teams is an old habit, even though we aren't one any more. Georgetown is still a team that we played three times and lost to twice. It makes us look bad to see them get blown out.
- But I agree that, especially this year, our reputation is in our own hands. If we do well, it won't matter what the teams we played did.
- But if we don't do well ourselves, it will matter.
- I'm not big on upsets. I want to see confrontations between the teams we've been following all year. The directional teams should have their own equivalent of Division 1AA so they could win a title instead of an upset. They just gum up the works here.
- But every time a 2 loses to a 15, that Richmond game seems longer and longer ago.
- I had Georgetown going to the Final Four on my sheet.
- My sheet is an exploded minefield anyway.
- I kept asking myself: Why didn't they play this way against us?
- Then I asked, "Why didn't we play this way against them?
- Because we are more likely to be ahead, (at least in the early games), and have blown some leads over the years, when a team builds up a big lead and sees it dwindling, I find myself rooting for the team with the lead. Their losing the lead and the game would, (in my mind, anyway), be more painful than the other team coming up short.
- In football, I'm a Bolshevik, wanting to overturn the established order because we are not a part of it. Go underdogs! In basketball, I'm a Romanov because we are a prominent member of the basketball establishment. Each upset reminds me of our own mortality. It could happen to us!
- But it didn't. We're still in it, baby!
- But those two losses to them and Big John's insistence on getting his two cents in made it seem like the old days.
- Rooting for Big East teams is an old habit, even though we aren't one any more. Georgetown is still a team that we played three times and lost to twice. It makes us look bad to see them get blown out.
- But I agree that, especially this year, our reputation is in our own hands. If we do well, it won't matter what the teams we played did.
- But if we don't do well ourselves, it will matter.
- I'm not big on upsets. I want to see confrontations between the teams we've been following all year. The directional teams should have their own equivalent of Division 1AA so they could win a title instead of an upset. They just gum up the works here.
- But every time a 2 loses to a 15, that Richmond game seems longer and longer ago.
- I had Georgetown going to the Final Four on my sheet.
- My sheet is an exploded minefield anyway.
- I kept asking myself: Why didn't they play this way against us?
- Then I asked, "Why didn't we play this way against them?
- Because we are more likely to be ahead, (at least in the early games), and have blown some leads over the years, when a team builds up a big lead and sees it dwindling, I find myself rooting for the team with the lead. Their losing the lead and the game would, (in my mind, anyway), be more painful than the other team coming up short.
- In football, I'm a Bolshevik, wanting to overturn the established order because we are not a part of it. Go underdogs! In basketball, I'm a Romanov because we are a prominent member of the basketball establishment. Each upset reminds me of our own mortality. It could happen to us!
- But it didn't. We're still in it, baby!
