I was right. Auburn wasn't that good despite everyone suggesting we had a bracket of death.
You were the one who made a comment about the "here"/"hear" misspelling as if that were relevant to the topic at hand (something something it undermined my point and highlighted arrogance?) and then made a comment about my general tone getting positive feedback (unlike some sensitive posters here, I don't particularly care). In each case, I dismiss out of hand the relevance of those comments. And if the "hear"/"here" thing didn't matter, you wouldn't have said it. It's apophasis, and everyone sees through that.
Instead, I continue to assert that we weren't screwed by the committee. That's the point and the context of my original post.
You have stirred no antipathy. It's a message board. It's supposed to be fun.
Nah, the only "arrogance" would be in claiming singular interpretations, where many are plausible good ones and yours is but one among them.
I never labeled ours as the "bracket of death," either literally or figuratively.
Similarly, those who have never heard or heard of "apophasis"
might not see through it, and those who accept that I was more focused on your request (in essence) to be heard, irrespective of the amusement contained within a homonym that could have been no more than a harmless dictation fail, wouldn't be required to see it your way.
I think I've got a couple posts that push back on the notion of our team being "screwed," and a couple that more generally questioned how conferences too big for full round-robin play could end up with teams showing deceptively strong records that benefitted from only play the top teams a single time. That's how I saw South Carolina after I read their fans touting Lamont Paris as National Coach of the Year, over Jon Rothstein's choice of Hurley, and Virginia's inclusion in the 68-yeam field. Seems like you saw Auburn that way.
I like to draw from the wisdom of co-partisans who have their attentions on things I'd like to know when I can't know everything all on my own.
But now, UConn WBB , first round play .
