happy "best day of the year" eve
like a child giddily tossing and turning as he tries to go to sleep the night before christmas, i find myself spending every waking minute that i am able to, reading and searching for articles touting the beginning of the best six month period of the year. that's right. tomorrow is the official opening of the 2004-2005 college basketball season. "midnight madness" as some call it. i simply refer to it as "late night in the PHOG."
as much as i love baseball, and i love baseball. and as much as i enjoy the play-offs (even though the royals haven't so much as thought about the post-season in 19 years) and watching my new adopted team, the red sox try and break that durned curse. (at posting the yankees are up 2-0, and i hate to be pessimistic, but i can't help it) there is NOTHING like college basketball to me. march might well be the best month in all of sports, but it has to begin somewhere. and that somewhere is tomorrow night.
right at midnight, in lawrence kansas, inside historic forrest "phog" allen fieldhouse, second year coach bill self and his boys will begin an adventure that will take the team and the fans through an unbelievable season, culminating with two victories in st. louis the first week in april. now, i am not making a prediction. i don't do that. all i am saying is that the jayhawks are going to be good this year. very good. and this year, nothing short of cutting down the nets at the end of the year will do. they've been on the brink for 4 years now. and it's time.
now, the realistic, grown-up me knows that it is a very difficult task for a team to accomplish. the moment of clarity i encountered when syracuse (i hate the color orange) managed to hang on and rob roy williams of his last chance to ever win a national championship (yeah, i said it) in 2003. i was surrounded by about 100 drunk college kids who were experiencing what me and my friends had years ago for the first time. i saw their reactions and i realized that i was not crushed. i learned that lesson in 1996 the hard way. life goes on. it IS just a game.
that said, this year is going to be awesome. this could be the year that kansas finally gets the national respect it deserves as one of the top 5 programs of all time.
regardless, the jayhawk nation, from massachusetts street to the state of massachusetts will have plenty to cheer about this season. and for seasons to come. and it all begins tomorrow.
merry midnight madness to all. and to all, a good night
as much as i love baseball, and i love baseball. and as much as i enjoy the play-offs (even though the royals haven't so much as thought about the post-season in 19 years) and watching my new adopted team, the red sox try and break that durned curse. (at posting the yankees are up 2-0, and i hate to be pessimistic, but i can't help it) there is NOTHING like college basketball to me. march might well be the best month in all of sports, but it has to begin somewhere. and that somewhere is tomorrow night.
right at midnight, in lawrence kansas, inside historic forrest "phog" allen fieldhouse, second year coach bill self and his boys will begin an adventure that will take the team and the fans through an unbelievable season, culminating with two victories in st. louis the first week in april. now, i am not making a prediction. i don't do that. all i am saying is that the jayhawks are going to be good this year. very good. and this year, nothing short of cutting down the nets at the end of the year will do. they've been on the brink for 4 years now. and it's time.
now, the realistic, grown-up me knows that it is a very difficult task for a team to accomplish. the moment of clarity i encountered when syracuse (i hate the color orange) managed to hang on and rob roy williams of his last chance to ever win a national championship (yeah, i said it) in 2003. i was surrounded by about 100 drunk college kids who were experiencing what me and my friends had years ago for the first time. i saw their reactions and i realized that i was not crushed. i learned that lesson in 1996 the hard way. life goes on. it IS just a game.
that said, this year is going to be awesome. this could be the year that kansas finally gets the national respect it deserves as one of the top 5 programs of all time.
regardless, the jayhawk nation, from massachusetts street to the state of massachusetts will have plenty to cheer about this season. and for seasons to come. and it all begins tomorrow.
merry midnight madness to all. and to all, a good night
posted by cade at 1:51 PM
2 Comments:
i'm tempted to say i couldn't care less, but that's not true. such a statement would discount the NFL, NBA and the NHL.
by the way, not that i care deeply (after all, i only spent 9, partially drunken months there), but have you noticed okie state's football team? they're amazin!
there's football in college?
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