For many, tonight is tantamount to Christmas Eve. Visions of five-star cornerbacks dance in their heads. Out on some lawns their will arise such a clatter when Ron from next door throws something out the window upon seeing Lenny Linebacker had flipped to Iowa State.
Oh, and stay the hell off daddy’s laptop. No, you may not send your lab partner an email.
Tomorrow is national signing day.
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From John Flowers fan and SI.com writer Luke Winn:
The biggest wild card in college basketball’s stretch run will make his debut on Wednesday, against Pittsburgh at a sold-out WVU Coliseum.
At the risk of hyperbole — and making Sam’s head explode — I’m going to agree with what might seem like a mighty exaggeration.
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Part of the annual charm of the NCAA Tournament is how the madnes sstarts well before March. Scheduling matters. The RPI is more important in late winter than the IRS. Bracketology is a lucrative business. Teams play every game — possession? — from this point or so on with consequences. It all leads up to one appealing characteristic: It’s hard to gain entry to the Big Dance.
Well, your still-somewhat-exclusive 65-team NCAA Tournament field may grow, either slightly or significantly, in the perhaps very near future.
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Hey, maybe Louisville will want to leave the Big East!
Following the accidentally illegal onside kick against WVU in 2005 and the unfair catch against UConn in 2007, the basketball team has for the second time been granted an apology — but no re-do — after an admitted officiating error.
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This is moving. Fast. It’s been ongoing for some time now and might be near its conclusion soon. And the same Pitt is here for a basketball game Wednesday night. Yikes.
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No, really. Saturday was bad day for the guy. The Karen Sypher chants. The choreographed, venomous crowd. Cotton Eye Joe 58 seconds into the game. A 13-0 deficit before he could tussle his hair. Sneakers and a sports coat. Why, that and everything that transpired from buzzer to buzzer was enough to make him speak for 30 seconds with reporters afterward.
Um, I’m with Rick on this one.
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I’ve got a good feeling about today’s game. Oh, I have no idea who wins or loses, but I feel good. The student section is decked out in tuxedo T-shirts with a message written on the back:
Stay classy, Morgantown.
Commence with the open post …
Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which bids adieu to an old friend today. This is the final weekend in Morgantown for Back Bay, which is an oddly tragic occasion. I’ve felt this week a little like I did as the series finale of The Shield and The O.C. The Sopranos approached. So good for so long, so sad to see it go. I keep telling myself, “It’s just a seafood restaurant. It is what it is…” Between the all-you-can-eat and the BYOB, there was a lot of debauchery there, but there were many other meals for meaningful moments, too.
You know what’d make me feel better about all this? A John Flowers dance.
“I’m really just trying to lighten the mood,” said Flowers, of Waldorf, Md. “Sometimes people forget basketball is supposed to be fun. I try to have fun with that to make it fun for everyone else.”
Much better.
One more thing. Jarrett Brown’s having a pretty good week at the Senior Bowl in Alabama … but did you hear about this Tebow guy?
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, sic ’em!
Spot the Ball said:
at future games, i hope the students (and all WVU fans for that matter) heed this letter. i’m not saying Huggs doesn’t win with class but this is a Beilein legacy. we were lucky to have him and i think Ken Gray’s letter reflects that impression he made on our program – that is, it’s cool to win with class. foul language and poor sportsmanship by the fans gives people reason to continue to hold on to negative WV stereotypes.
There are so many ways to look at this situation and, as best as I can tell, there is only one wrong way: “Ken Gray is a crybaby.”
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This is the end of the beginning for Deniz Kilicli. He’s watched WVU play 19 regular season games and been a tantalizing prospect in two exhibitions. He’ll observe Saturday’s WVU v. Louisville game and then be eligible to play Wednesday against Pitt.
“I’ve started to count not days, but hours now,” he said. “I had one day off not long ago after like four weeks and I was sitting in my dorm room. Time is not running. I felt like everything stopped and I was sitting there like, ‘Oh, my God. This is so boring.'”
Expectations? Let’s give it a whirl…
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Your 2010 Gold-Blue Game is Friday, April 30 with a nighttime kickoff.
