Call your shot for March Madness.
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Good call.
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The curse of Guy V Lewis
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Thought I heard something that now the 🐊 have the most major championships since 96 or something. They are one of the few tolerable SEC schools because they're actually trying to be a school, that just so happens to win football and basketball national titles. Must be nice.
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Florida has 3. Back to back in 96 and 97
Not sure how many Connecticut has
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Florida has always been the UW of its own state. It's the flagship. The difference between it and FSU has not historically been as severe as the difference between UW and WSU, so we? enjoy a bit more of an undisputed superiority over our fellow land grant (and hence, our? superiority complex that goes with it).
But Florida has become a lot harder to get into, mostly just as a numbers game. The elite privates - the kinds of places you'd pick over Florida without blinking - like Duke, Vandy, Ivies, etc., have gone down to literal single digit admission rates and so even Chang with perfect scores and Val status with crazy high school rigor is being rejected from those places. Not waitlisted, rejected. Couple that with the increase in cultural focus of "college life" being a social media flex for average people (look at pictures of me partying in my frat/sorority life style!!!), and especially party schools like Florida (and others in the southeastern US) have just had a recent tidal wave of applications without an increase in room.
Sure, this has increased the level of student you find there, particularly an increase in really smart kids whose parents are in the donut hole for financial aid to the private elites (nobody should spend $200 k on a bachelor's degree, with MIT and Cal Tech maybe excepted). But overall, Florida is still Florida. Solid state school that is enjoying a demographic blip. When the demo starts to shrink, as it's sure to do in the next 5 to 10 years, they'll come back down to earth. Right now, though, they're ranked #30. We're ranked #46. I can promise you UF is not a better school than Washington on any relevant measure. But although we, too, have enjoyed a crazy rise in applications for the same fake reasons, we haven't to the extent UF has. It's artificial. Doesn't mean anything really. Fuck, we're tied with FSU and people have not historically viewed that school as academically elite. It's like UCLA's 100,000 applications. Whoopdeedo. You only have to check a box for your app to go to all the UCs and California still has a huge population, so 60,000 of those applications are from kids who are going to barely squeeze into UC Santa Cruz, or worse. Yes, there are smart kids there, but there are also kids who are definitely not elite students. Run into them every day. Dartmouth? Not so much.
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6. UConn the better basketball school w/o question. but Florida has won the natty in football, basketball and baseball, something only Michigan and Buck have done, and as you might guess Buck and Michigan's baseball heroics are fairly old, and Bucks basketball heroics are old too. U Conn ain't ever wining a football or baseball natty.
I expect UConn to win a few more b4 Hurley leaves. He's an obsessed psychopath, and those people make the best coaches and athletes. I would love to have a coach like him. Crazy fucking competitive to the point of needing therapy. Actually, if you watch the ESPN piece on him, he is in need of therapy and may be getting it.
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Kelvin fucked up Cuog style.
Down two you HAVE to get a bucket. 19 seconds left, plenty of time to hunt for a three to win it. But for fuck’s sake, by about 10 seconds, you’ve got to put the shoulder down and get to the rack. Maybe get a bucket or a put back or an and one.
Sampson fucked up.
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Cryer never should have given up the ball. Take the fucking ball to the basket. He passed twice. Loser.
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Whatever "play" he drew up was clearly aborted after about 5 seconds. Panic set in and none of the guys were smart enough to just attack the hoop and get the ball on the rim or draw a foul. Worst case you miss and have to foul and get the ball back down 3 or 4 with 10 seconds left. Hell, their last 4 possessions were all turnovers. Truly pathetic.
