Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2492066, member: 488"] There's no doubt that winning can lift a lot of people's spirits and that it's sad that things aren't as good as they could be. I'm also of the belief that these things do not exist in a vacuum and that everything has its saturation point. Over the last few years this program has been a distraction to me and it has at times even brought joy. Sometimes the most fulfilling moments are the ones that cause you to forget about everything and everybody else. When we beat Tulsa in the AAC semis a couple years ago in a brutally ugly game I didn't care that we could have been playing at MSG, I didn't care that the team was bad, and I definitely didn't care that the product I was seeing was a million miles from the one I grew up with. I just cared that at that moment in time I wanted one thing and I got it, a chance to see my team play another game. As far as the women's team, different people like different things. I've never really been interested for a variety of reasons the biggest of which being that I was a male growing up in a culture that was largely indifferent to women's sports. Oddly enough, I think people avoid certain products for the same reason that they eventually embrace them - I don't care about the UCWBB team because it's foreign to me, and it's foreign to me because at one point in time I probably decided I was too good for it. Now obviously that's a nonsensical position but it's a nonsense grounded in a well-reasoned reality. I gravitated towards men's sports because that's where the people were. It didn't matter whether they were there for the right reason or the wrong reason it just mattered that they were there. With the men's program in tough times, I've realized that it was never about the wins and losses as much as it was the spectacle. That's what drew me. It's what draws everybody at some point. Those moments you speak of with your father couldn't make my point any better. It was never about the winning. The winning just gave you an excuse to see what it was about. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

Forum statistics

Threads: 164,787

Messages: 4,410,772

Members: 10,236

Latest member: Hoopster80