Blade, America

Shout out to…

Duke (and Heather)!! That was a really good game the whole time, I think the biggest lead was 5 or 6 and that only lasted about 2 plays. Butler is a really good team – I understand that they play where Hoosiers was filmed, and don’t have anywhere near the tradition of Duke, but they were not a cindarella team in my opinion. They were ranked 2 spots behind Duke when the season began so I don’t know why people were so surprised they did well and ya they have a small school, but it’s the same size as wake forest and only 2,000 less than duke. When wake forest wins a couple games in the tourney (honestly that doesn’t happen too often) does everyone say “whoa a school with only 4,000 students won a game!” uhh no, and i’m not even sure what the size of the student body at a school has to do with how good the 10 person basketball team is, it’s not like they’re picking walk ons from people already enrolled at the school, but I feel like that’s all I heard about all week. Anyways Butler should be a top 3 pre-season team next year, and I’d vote them #1 considering they lost by 2 in the chamionship game and return almost everybody, but that probably won’t happen. On a side note, comparing this era to the one of John Wooden just isn’t going to work because it was so different, but as far as the modern era goes coach K has definitely separated himself

This is really interesting…

Mitch brought up a good point about 2 in 1 soap and shampoo – it’s great for a gym bag so you only have to pack one item. Sports!

This is really interesting…

The Mariners are on a torrid pace this year for wins. In honor I’m going to post baseball pics all week from the Ba-joe-lor party weekend. I only have about 4 from that weekend, so that should work out pretty well. And even though Sunday was technically opening day and yesterday really was opening day, we can’t go to the opening day of the Mariners until next Monday. Hopefully that gives Seattle enough time to get sunny and hot

Lately I’m thinking…

I think it’s outrageous that Oregon might have the highest paid coach in college basketball. Not north carolina, ucla, kansas or kentucky…but oregon. Will be intersting to see who they land. On a side note Mikey you’re totally right, Howard has a horrible mustache and it’s even funnier when he fouls (every 8 seconds) and gets called for one and then storms off with his mustache

The Soapbox:

Rant: I can’t believe they’re almost for sure going to expand the tournament to 96 teams. All everyone says every year is how great the tournament is and how much better than college football it is, and now they’re changing it. Actually the reason they usually give for not making football into a playoff is because the students will miss more school, and yet in basketball teams will miss somewhere around 3 extra days now and for some reason that’s not a problem. It also makes the regular season a lot less important now, St Johns went 6-12 in conference and they probably would have made it in. unc would have made it in really easily. What I’m worried about is it will resemble the nba, and players won’t play hard all year because they’re just waiting to “turn on the switch” for the tournament. I can’t imagine very many people paying to see those first couple round games in a neutral location either, I know I wouldn’t. Oh ya and filling out a 96 team bracket sounds like it will take forever…