NCAA Basketball Tournament Day One Open Comment Thread
by T Kyle King on Mar 15, 2011 6:00 PM EDT
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PrintThe trademarked mental disorder occurring after February and before April is upon us! The NCAA Tournament begins tonight with the first round of play-in games, and, as you get geared up for the Georgia Bulldogs' opening game against the Washington Huskies on Friday, be sure to join in the conversation in the comments below. For whom are you rooting in the aggregation of initials that is the early evening game? Are you hoping to see the UAB Blazers, a regular season victim of the Fox Hounds, take down the Clemson Tigers, a longtime baseball and football rival of the Red and Black? Are you taking part in the Twitter picture contest? If so, feel free to post pictures of you in your Georgia gear in the comments below!
Go 'Dawgs!
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Clearly, I overestimated the non-stop thrill ride . . .
. . . of play-in games on Tru-TV (whatever that is).
Go 'Dawgs!
It's Court TV...
… but with a new hip name to appeal to the damn kids nowadays.
by vineyarddawg on Mar 15, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions
With a lot of reruns of Dumbest Criminals if I'm thinking of the right channel
and yeah for UNC-Asheville and former Georgia assistant Eddie Biedenbach. Sucks UAB can’t cap off my night properly.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Mar 15, 2011 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions
How I found this channel for the game
Searched TiVO for “Cops.”
by D.N. Nation on Mar 15, 2011 8:10 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Yeah, I used the "find channel" menu on DirecTV, . . .
. . . but I wound up on F/X first. “Step Brothers” was airing there, for the record.
Go 'Dawgs!
I see
Tracy Wolfson is back on-the-air.
warning: almost NSFW
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
What makes that photo art . . .
. . . is the look on the face of the guy at the right edge of the picture.
Go 'Dawgs!
I still cannot believe
she did that. I’m still blushing. The CBS censors must have all retired when the Smothers Brothers did.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Mar 15, 2011 8:45 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I like it that DtD put the "NSFW" warning at the bottom of the picture, not above it.
That makes DtD’s posting of the picture a work of art, as well.
by vineyarddawg on Mar 15, 2011 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions
He's just taking the Tressel approach.
Better late than never, right?
by Cherokee's Grip on Mar 15, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm flying home relatively late Friday night...
… so I don’t know if I’ll be home in time to post this at the beginning of the in-game thread. As a result, I’m posting it now:
Also, on a completely unrelated note:
All of our thoughts and prayers are seriously with the people of Japan, but I have to point this out, as well:
(might be NSFW)
by vineyarddawg on Mar 15, 2011 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Might be?
it “might be” funny too.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Mar 15, 2011 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions
This thread has gone NSFW, . . .
. . . but, fortunately, it’s after 9:00 p.m. If you’re at work right now, probably anything is SFW to you.
Meanwhile, two teams I’ve never heard of have gone to overtime, thereby delaying the game I actually care about somewhat.
Go 'Dawgs!
What? You've never heard of UNC-Asheville?
Really TKK, you must get out more. Only kiddng. The only reason I really know anything about UNCA is because a couple (maybe 4 or 5) years ago, they had a HUGE kid named Kenny George. Kenny was something like 7’4" and 325. He also lost part of his foot, and therefore his college career, to diabetes I think.
When I saw UNCA was playing ARLR, I thought two New Deal government agencies . . .
. . . were battling it out for supremacy!
Meanwhile, Clemson is up 20-7 on UAB. I’m glad we got the credit for the win over the Blazers on Selection Sunday, because it sure wouldn’t help us much right now.
On the other hand, why the heck don’t we regularly play Clemson in basketball?
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Mar 15, 2011 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
It could have been New Deal agencies, but
we all know that Social Security is the supreme agency! People in government still talk about it all the time, the rarely mention the CCC or even the TVA.
Why don’t we play Clemson regularly in basketball? Probably because, in the past, Clemson saw no need to play us as we wouldn’t help their tourney chances. Now that we are both sort of “up and coming” programs, perhaps tha will get done. I’d love to play them. More wins against ACC schools definitely would help our tourney opportunities.
Apparently
when the battery gets low on the laptop, I type faster than it can recognize.
Did a two-fer with them in the early Felton era
That’s about it.
by D.N. Nation on Mar 15, 2011 11:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
We do every year....
in a scrimmage preseason. Or at least we have the vast majority of the past decade.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Mar 15, 2011 11:51 PM EDT up reply actions
He was 7'7, and one of the two simply massive human beings I saw working the games at South Carolina...
Big Baby Davis was the other. As he checked into a game in front of me, taking a knee and putting an arm on the table, his arm was as thick as my leg, and I’m 6’2+, 250+. He was massive. George was simply a monster. At 7’7, he guarded South Carolina’s 6’9 Sam Muldrow in the post, by essentially sticking Muldrow’s head in his armpit with an outstretched arm over top. See the below photo of George guarding Tyler Hansbrough. He was a giant, and that amputation (from a staph infection according to reports at the time) derailed a sure NBA career.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Mar 15, 2011 11:50 PM EDT up reply actions
And my comment about the arm thicker than my leg...
is about Big Baby Davis if that’s not clear. The former LSU and current Boston Celtic big has made a good living without sacrificing his physical health as much as he would have playing football, but when you see a man that thick, and that light on his feet, you can only imagine how much he’d have made as an NFL LT, or perhaps even a DL.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Mar 15, 2011 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah Big Baby played both ways in high school and it was a sight to see.
There aren’t many 6’8 340 pounders running true 5 second flat 40’s out there. It’s interesting to imagine him as part of that mammoth offensive line that Stacy Searels coached at LSU in the mid-2000’s.
True, but hard to fault the big man...
for wanting to still be able to walk when he turns 45. If deciding between a 10+ year career on an NBA bench, or a 10+ year career as an all-pro NFL LT, I’m going basketball all day.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
I go to Vegas:
I miss a lot of sports and blogging and UGA. We’re in the Tourney.
This shit is going to get expensive over the years.
And, Since I haven’t got to weight in: i have been mad at Robinson since the Vanderbuilt away game. Reading the blog, he didn’t disappoint.
We made goal one: the tourney. Goal 2: Win one game. The rest is gravy. We done good.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
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