Must we always get overreaction, baseless prognostication and snarky comments from those ESPN "experts."
Really, that whole operation needs to change its name to Overreaction, Baseless Prognostication and Snark, Inc. Although that wouldn't make for that great an abbreviation, I guess it'd be OBPS or something.
Anyway, check out the gems delivered by Gene Wojciechowski in his column "Coaching moves make Sweet 16 into job auditions" posted on ESPN's website today.
Feel free to read it, but if you don't have the patience I'll summerize it: Apparently, since Tubby Smith left Kentucky, half the coaches in Division I will also go somewhere else in the near future. Oh, and I just love this paragraph, its the fifth one down:
Southern Illinois' Chris Lowery is being romanced by someone. Has to be. No one stays in Carbondale on purpose, do they? Some bigfoot program (paging, Iowa?) will drop its share of zeroes and commas on the guy and he's gone, right?
I'm sure Wojo likes the sound of his own voice (who doesn't on that channel) but he really need to shut up with that one. Now, as an SIU alum who was there to see two different coaches (Bruce Weber and Matt Painter) leave in two consecutive years, I am greatly fearing that we won't hold on to Lowery for long. But I also have faith that Lowery will stay. Unlike those previous two coaches, Lowery is an SIU alum. No one stays in Carbondale on purpose? Well why has Lowery come there three different times- as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach (Lowery left an assistant spot at Illinois to take the helm at SIU)?
And Iowa is a bigfoot program? Please, who did they play Thursday night? No one. Meanwhile, SIU gave Kansas the fight of its life. They have more 000's in cornland but their program is hardly on SIU's level right now. If anything I'm more worried about Kentucky coming to call after coach after coach rejects their shadow of a program (see: Alabama football).
Friday, March 23, 2007
The Sweet 16- not so sweet for me
When Jamaal Tatum missed that tip-in attempt in the second half I knew that my beloved SIU Salukis, the team whose done such a good job representing my alma mater, the team who's stars I interviewed not to long ago just didn't have enough to overcome the mighty Kansas Jayhawks.
Actually, I didn't know right then, I'm a little less fatalistic than that. That shot though, wasn't a good sign.
We came as close as that shot did to falling in. Such is March. That's why you can love it and hate it all at once.
I'm also hating on that A&M/Memphis finish. First you have that lame foul call that led to Memphis getting the lead then you have more than a second getting took off the clock after that bad inbounds try by the Aggies.
A&M may not have deserved to win that one but they didn't deserve to lose it the way they did, having to hurl up a half-court shot with less than two seconds left.
Now Ohio St. is down six to Tennessee. My elite 8 is looking shakey. Oh well, I don't feel as bad as they do in College Station or in Carbondale, which I don't mind leaving behind, but I wish I could have been there tonight.
Actually, I didn't know right then, I'm a little less fatalistic than that. That shot though, wasn't a good sign.
We came as close as that shot did to falling in. Such is March. That's why you can love it and hate it all at once.
I'm also hating on that A&M/Memphis finish. First you have that lame foul call that led to Memphis getting the lead then you have more than a second getting took off the clock after that bad inbounds try by the Aggies.
A&M may not have deserved to win that one but they didn't deserve to lose it the way they did, having to hurl up a half-court shot with less than two seconds left.
Now Ohio St. is down six to Tennessee. My elite 8 is looking shakey. Oh well, I don't feel as bad as they do in College Station or in Carbondale, which I don't mind leaving behind, but I wish I could have been there tonight.
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