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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4572993, member: 181"] That may not be the point this year. The worst offenders (Yes, they're here) haven't got the gravitas to make their hanging worthwhile. If there's any merit to [USER=1]@temery[/USER]'s suggestion that times have changed, or any strength in [USER=25]@Deepster[/USER]'s disruptive pronouncements on the same theme last year, then we could be in a Boeheim-like situation, but with an opportunity here to give stale legends their proper, respectful due. In other words, maybe we don't need no steenkin' mojo sammiches...commies or not. A sizeable cadre-like cohort of cantankerous curmudgeons seems hell-bent on pushing the 'we suck & can't do it' canard, desperate to protect falsely-claimed turf, as though it can only be expanded by their loss of any claim to it. But all things must pass. Everything changes, and that's a fact. Sometimes all ya can do is ride the bull. FACT: This is a National Championship caliber team that needs all the help it can possibly get. Some folks are quaking in their boots about the 13-seed. Others are looking ahead to the 12-seed. Some people are laughing about, predicting, and cheering for an early upset, as though only an excruciating loss can provide a big enough rush to twist itself into the illusion of feeling good about feeling bad. Sometimes falling feels like flying...for a little while. I haven't looked today, but hope that nobody's still driving full-speed while looking in the rear view mirror, decrying the seeding, the opponents, the brackets, or the locations. I'm willing to make my first bet of the year: they are what they are. Leave aside your hurry to get to the, "I knew it" - "We were right" celebration. We're in a Debbie Downer vs. Pollyanna Death Match, when neither label is true, and it's a dubious luxury when from here on out it's one and done, renewable every single game. This team CAN win it all. This this will ONLY win playing as a team. Be a teammate. [/QUOTE]

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