so in a joke bracket pool my final 4 was Kentucky, Gonzaga and Villanova, and Kansas. I was feeling great till last night. Then I hit 2 blocks of the block pool and won $150. wahoo. and if that kid from Michigan doesn't take that unnecessary 3, I would've hit 3 times.
I didnt turn it in but I hit the random button on espn and while I cannot remember all of it I do remember it had Loloya winning it with Syracuse and Florida State as part of the final four I laughed delted it and did my real one I should have kept the random bracket lol
As a kid, I remember listening to a guy named Red Rush who broadcasted the Loyola Rambler games. Red was a real character and made up nick names for most of the Loyola team. I remember just two of them, "LEAPING LESLIE HUNTER" and "VICIOUS VIC ROUSE". The Ramblers star of their '63 championship team was their star guard, Jerry Harkness who was a great college player. Gonnella Bread was their radio broadcast sponsor and Red's tag line for them was Buy Gonnella, it's Swella. To me, I love Loyola getting into the Final Four being a guy who loves when so-called Mid Majors get in and upset the big boys who seem to win it most of the time. Particularly in the current era of one and done for a lot of college basketball players.
Jean, that would've been fun to see. I do think Michigan beats them. A player from the 63 Title team was there in attendance on Saturday. Pretty darn cool. I think the winner of Villanova - Kansas trounces the Loyola-Chi-Michigan winner. Loyola-Chicago is a great story, but UVA losing in the first rd really helped them get to the Final 4. Cincy losing in the second rd helped a lot too. and Al-Villanova has 2-3 players still on their Title team from 3 yrs ago. You go to Villanova to play hoops, but you also stay for the education as not many Nova players go to the NBA. Jay Wright wins with solid talent who stay in school. That's why he's so successful.
I saw this but couldn't copy and paste the format. THEY ASKED SISTER JEAN -What did you give up for Lent? Sister Jean: Losing! HHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA!
Yeah. My son and I recently got into an argument that was kind of like the one and done happening in college basketball today. He is totally okay with kids leaving their school after a year for pro money and I'd like to see some changes with that policy. And while I think that the NCAA is a shitty organization, I do think that the present situation is bad for the game itself. What I'd like to see is for a kind of adaptation of how college baseball handles things. Namely that if a kid can get offered money out of high school to sign a pro contract but if he refuses that offer to go pro, then he must wait three years and go to college and not be eligible to be drafted again until after what would be his junior year. Two years, I think, if he goes to a junior college school. That makes a lot of sense to me for basketball to adopt. But right now what we see is the top kids not even going to class, just playing basketball while they await the pros to come calling and draft them. In this way, the colleges are becoming a sort of minor league system for the professional teams and I do not like that. So that really is my two cents. Perhaps that idiot Ball father, Lorenzo, has it right of all things by forming a league for those kids who have their sole purpose of playing pro basketball not going to college for an education. I see nothing wrong with that because it does open up spots or college roster for kids who do want to go to college to get and education while playing basketball at the same time.
but Ball took his 2 kids out of school, including High School and went to play in Europe. So now his youngest son doesn't even have a High School education or GED. Not too smart there. He's not even that good. It's not like he's the next Kobe or Lebron. Ball is a menace and needs to be kept away from college kids. I like the baseball rule. I think the NBA got rid of the rule if they get an agent they are automatically not allowed to go back to college if they drop in the draft. that should be changed. why punish the athlete if he stock plummets by not being allowed back to college to play ball. glad they switched it. Villanova and Loyola-Chicago are proving that kids who stay in school stay around the same kids year in and year out, and they win together, instead trying to form a new team every year bc of the 1 and done's, like John Calipari and Kentucky. No chemistry there.
Agree If the NBA wants to let players jump straight from high school I think they need to make the D league better. Yeah people are right in Baseball (and Hockey I think) guys can jump straight from high school into the game the thing is they arent jumping straight into the top league. The vast majority of them go to the minors first then tot he pros. Yes there are exceptions to that but again the majority go minors first. Get a minor league system in place and then have at it.
and make the D league profitable enough for them to want to go play in it. not for $5000 a season. make it worth their while.
