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In prior posts on our forum, I have been a vocal advocate of the idea that our favorite team, playing so far beyond any remotely reasonable preseason expectations, is essentially playing with the House’s money at this point.
I well-remember our mutual discussions of several months ago, when we were all itching for the new season to begin, that many opined that doom and gloom awaited the Huskies in the wake of the severe graduation losses, some confidently predicting not just a small number of losses but multiple defeats. I, among several others, demurred from that view, suggesting that the team would still be playing in late March if not early April. But before any of us in that number break our collective arms patting ourselves on the back, the fact of the matter is that NONE among us predicted that this team would be undefeated at this point in the season, and I cannot recall anyone boastfully predicting yet another National Championship. To be sure, the general tenor of the discussion contained mutual “acceptance” of the prospect of a non-championship season…not with a sense of relief, but with a kind of smug equanimity (speaking for myself, anyway), on grounds that a
having won fully half of the last twenty-two, for God’s sake, and the last four-in-a-row, it would be somewhat unseemly and excessively greedy to gobble up another in this of all years, and b the stars were clearly aligning for UConn to be the overwhelming favorite to “return” to the winner’s circle in 2017/2018.
Well, that was then. Now, as this team has performed so dramatically above expectations, and has beaten all comers, to hell with all that equanimity stuff. Greed, as they say, is good! Let’s get #12 right here and now, and then we can then enjoy all the predictable responses to the inevitable pronouncements of how “bad” this relative dominance is for WCBB. Geno is putting together something we’ll probably never see in sports again. Let’s see if he can keep building on it in an unblemished way. As we say in New Orleans, “laissez les bon temps rouler!!”
I well-remember our mutual discussions of several months ago, when we were all itching for the new season to begin, that many opined that doom and gloom awaited the Huskies in the wake of the severe graduation losses, some confidently predicting not just a small number of losses but multiple defeats. I, among several others, demurred from that view, suggesting that the team would still be playing in late March if not early April. But before any of us in that number break our collective arms patting ourselves on the back, the fact of the matter is that NONE among us predicted that this team would be undefeated at this point in the season, and I cannot recall anyone boastfully predicting yet another National Championship. To be sure, the general tenor of the discussion contained mutual “acceptance” of the prospect of a non-championship season…not with a sense of relief, but with a kind of smug equanimity (speaking for myself, anyway), on grounds that a
having won fully half of the last twenty-two, for God’s sake, and the last four-in-a-row, it would be somewhat unseemly and excessively greedy to gobble up another in this of all years, and b the stars were clearly aligning for UConn to be the overwhelming favorite to “return” to the winner’s circle in 2017/2018.Well, that was then. Now, as this team has performed so dramatically above expectations, and has beaten all comers, to hell with all that equanimity stuff. Greed, as they say, is good! Let’s get #12 right here and now, and then we can then enjoy all the predictable responses to the inevitable pronouncements of how “bad” this relative dominance is for WCBB. Geno is putting together something we’ll probably never see in sports again. Let’s see if he can keep building on it in an unblemished way. As we say in New Orleans, “laissez les bon temps rouler!!”
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