Some silver linings before I rail against the media and their favorite Centenarian...
* What an amazing season!
* We were better than Michigan in every way, didn’t get a vacation from our Governor, and handled a bracket that was way tougher than theirs in the way I expected
* People here are handling this tough loss with humor and that is impressive
* We still aren’t Iowa
* Kofi may return bc he’s got of room for improvement and should be a lottery pick if he leaves, we will have 2 who made it the NBA if he doesn’t from this team; win-win
*Ayo is gone but I think our offense runs better without him (we would have beaten Michigan by 13 with a heathy Ayo)
* The Underwood haters will certainly be back and it was a lot of fun seeing them being proven wrong
* Everything that follows isn’t a complaint, I just like the healing power of humor, admire Sister Jean for her faith, but feel like God will forgive me for my hard feelings
And now for the round of potshots and sarcasm:
* first hats off to Loyola and the way they played (clearing my throat)
* I think we should leave God out of sports...when SMU lost a football game on a last second field goal andtheir opponents kicker gave the glory to Jesus my hero Bobby KnIght said it best: “Does that mean God decided to screw SMU?”
* I can’t bring my self to have hard feelings toward a woman of faith but I can attempt an impression of playing God to her Job so...living to 100 is henceforth not an accomplishment (a woman born today has a 1 in 3 chance of make it); she needs to put the on the sorting hat so she goes full Harry Potter in the poster of Cade Cunningham dunking on her that I have already cleared a space for on my wall; lastly she got to attend the game against common sense and the official ruling because of public outcry...Betty White nailed her hosting gig on SNL for the same reasons but her funniest joke was pointing out the thinly veiled narcissism that big tech and the media nuture each time they bow to pressure; when an unofficial mascot dies whether of Covid or Grief, I hope we see ourselves and throw shade where it belongs; MySpace thought it was all-powerful, too in it’s prime after all.
* this loss is nowhere near as heartbreaking as 2005.,,with 3 minutes left and almost 9 point deficit, I said the following: “Can we recall Dee, Deron, and Luther” unfortunately God was apparently on a hotline with Sister Jean, so my prayer went unanswered
* (and here is the sarcastic cherry on top..,) Way to go NCAA, you managed to tarnish your product with the inevitable unintended consequences from your transfer rule change. It was fun watching the blueboods bleed out...almost as much fun as acknowledging that MSU has an unofficial FastPass to the tourney....the team I root for wins its games through grit and being better than the sum of its parts; it got its behind handed to it from another team that using basketball and not recuiting to ensure victory. I enjoyed the game despite the outcome. The NCAA’s apparent disregard for the sport makes me sadder than this tough loss. Everybody loves money. But I suspect the NCAA is on the same path as MC Hammer.
* Lastly, if you read all that, thank you. Here’s the one gem among the babble: when the 2005 team forgot they were playing for a national championship in the first half of that game, fans at my uncle’s workplace were put on suicide watch. For real. I doubt that happened this time. The Thad Five fizzled, too. It’s hard to win the tourney and now the pressure is off.