Posted by Trentonjoe on 3/17/2018 1:20:00 PM (view original):
Posted by topdogggbm on 3/17/2018 11:26:00 AM (view original):
You guys can throw rocks and grenades at me. But i can't get on board with this. I hate these situations. I know it's good for the sport and it gets people all fired up. But i don't get to watch every game. And the times that i get a chance to kick back and turn on the big game, I'm ****** when it's a game like this. It's two teams i know nothing about, that i didn't care about at all two weeks ago, and really don't have a shot in hell at winning the thing. I wanna see the guys I've watched all year. The supreme talent and supreme matchups.
(WifS forum crowd..... "Booooooooooooo! Topdogg Boooooooooo!" "Get him outta here!")
I think quite a lot of people feel this way. They are all ******* wrong.
At least I'm not alone. I understand it's great for the kids at the schools. And as a person involved in basketball, i would much rather be that kid that grows up to be own his own small lawn care business, and can look back on a miracle time in his life that he can cherish forever.... More than I'd like to be the kid who's the 5th starter on a D1 juggernaut, that can only make the D league NBA. He's probably been a star his whole life, and it's not AS great of an accomplishment for his memory bank.
But, I'm a spectator. I'm not interested in seeing UMBC or any other Cinderella get blown out their next game. I'd be ok with chalk to the sweet 16. Top 4 seeds in each region. From there, "upsets" are fine. If all 4 seeds make the final 4 that's still high level talent. To each his own. I understand the opposite argument to this as well. I'm a realist.