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<blockquote data-quote="JFGsCoffeeMug" data-source="post: 1612761" data-attributes="member: 74571"><p>I will always remember this team. What hurts the most for me is that, aside from our fans and some diehard B1G fans, no one else will. For everyone else, this team will probably end up being nothing more than a footnote in the unfolding story of Loyola's second miracle run in a four year span. And that sucks. This team deserves to be remembered by more people (to the extent you can even deserve to take up space in other people's memory banks). This team was special. They were all heart. And they played the game the right way. But, in the end, it wasn't enough. They ran into an opponent they couldn't figure out or get around.</p><p></p><p>The truth is that in addition to there only being one national champion, there are also only a few stories that have a chance to survive and be told far into the future. When a team wins, they stay in the runnings for their story to be remembered. And the team that loses has their story cut short. Time runs out. The battery on the megaphone dies. The conch shell is snatched away. I wasn't ready for the story to end. I wanted to keep listening. And I wanted others to have the opportunity to hear it as well.</p><p></p><p>But it simply wasn't meant to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JFGsCoffeeMug, post: 1612761, member: 74571"] I will always remember this team. What hurts the most for me is that, aside from our fans and some diehard B1G fans, no one else will. For everyone else, this team will probably end up being nothing more than a footnote in the unfolding story of Loyola's second miracle run in a four year span. And that sucks. This team deserves to be remembered by more people (to the extent you can even deserve to take up space in other people's memory banks). This team was special. They were all heart. And they played the game the right way. But, in the end, it wasn't enough. They ran into an opponent they couldn't figure out or get around. The truth is that in addition to there only being one national champion, there are also only a few stories that have a chance to survive and be told far into the future. When a team wins, they stay in the runnings for their story to be remembered. And the team that loses has their story cut short. Time runs out. The battery on the megaphone dies. The conch shell is snatched away. I wasn't ready for the story to end. I wanted to keep listening. And I wanted others to have the opportunity to hear it as well. But it simply wasn't meant to be. [/QUOTE]
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