This Year, I Want It All.
by yawnz on Mar 9, 2009 2:53 AM EDT
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PrintEven after a much too close win over West Virginia, I've never been so confident in the Cards' ability to beat anyone on any given day.
The games we didn't win (with the exception of UConn) were all remarkably unlikely considering the way we've played when at our best. Even against UConn we were clearly not the same team. But that team has been seen less and less as the year went on and if we get to the Big East title game we'll have a chance to say goodbye to that team once and for all. Personally, I want to face as tough a road as possible, to have a chance to knock down the best of the best along the way:
- I want to face Villanova, and rematch UConn in the BEast Tourny.
- Then I want to get a 2 seed in a UNC bracket so we get a rematch of last year's elite eight.
- I'm hoping Memphis loses in the CUSA tournament and drops to a 3 seed so we get to face them too.
- I'm hoping UK wins the SEC tournament, gets a 10 seed, and faces us in the second round of the NCAAs.
- Then I want Oklahoma in the Final Four, because they can't hang with the big dogs.
- Finally another clash with Pitt in the Championship game.
I want it to be epic and by the time its done I want even Edgar Sosa to be able to lay claim to some manhood. I want E5 to play in games so meaningful that the weight of it drives him to greatness (and he avoids becoming the next Clifford Rozier). I want Terrance Williams' name to ring out triumphantly over the ESPN cubicles. I want a lifetime of experience and wisdom distilled down into one month of glorious basketball so Andre McGee will be more than prepared to become a coach and inspire future Cardinals. I want Rick's Hall of Fame resume to get another emphatic bullet point, cementing his enshrinement as a Cardinal, not a Cat. I want Reece, Cisco, Taquan, Otis, Myles, LarryO, Almost Dunking Marquis Maybin, Dejuan Wheat, Tick Rogers, Rozier, Beau Zach Smith, Labradford Smith, Samaki Walker, Butch Beard, Junior Bridgeman, Pervis, Griff, Charlie Tyra, Milt Wagner, Wes Unseld, and Coach Crum to jump with joy, maybe cry a little, and feel some reflected glory and a little extra pride at having been a part of the process that led to that point.
A Championship by an easier route would be satisfying but this year... I want it all. Is that asking too much?
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For those that don't pick Kentucky
This is me judging you
by UL is my hot hot sex on Mar 9, 2009 3:15 AM EDT reply actions
For you judging me
This is me applauding your faithfulness to the Rivalry. If there is one regret I have this year, it’s that Kentucky is down. I really wanted Billy Clyde to work out for them, but its clear he is not yet half the coach Tubby was. I have faith they’ll be back but I’m impatient for it. I’d much rather see their name up in the rankings than Oklahoma or Memphis (as badly as I want to beat the crap out of the Tigers).
by yawnz on Mar 9, 2009 3:25 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Frank
Relative to the old days…do you remember a hatchet piece CBS’s “60 Minutes” did on Denny about 15 or 20 years ago? They sat him down on a nice plush chair, had him get real comfortable, Denny probably innocently asked how Andy Rooney was doing, and then they ambushed him. Pulled out all the stops….why our players didn’t graduate…the entire “Anthony Cade Saga,” Prop 48 stuff. Crum was probably thinking it would be a puff piece, but it didn’t turn out that way, and Denny was made to look bad and the situation worse than it was through the magic of editing. Years later on the old Roy Firestone show, Denny got a chance, a national chance, to give his side of the story. I think he’ll always be ticked at CBS though.
by Roz on Mar 9, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice Post
I think you hit every Card fantasy that could possibly take place. You’ve definitely got a gift for the concept of “If you’re going to dream, dream big.” That’s never been my strong suit. If I were on death row, my last meal would probably be a hot pocket and a root beer.
I don't think e v e r y Card fantasy
…and you know what I mean. And Gulf of Mexico guy, let’s top that final meal off with say a Sonic run for about eleven of those mini-banana splits.
by Roz on Mar 9, 2009 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I want the Final Four, and I don't care how it happens
Anything past the Final Four is God smiling on you, because winning the big one is as hard a feat as there is in any level of sports in this country.
You Are Officially Pronounced
A crazed, fomenting, somnobitch (saw it like Gleason in “Smokey/Bandit”).
Love
That otherwordly, Lord of the Rings esque picture of TWILL ruling the world with those huge effing red wings on Hell In The Hall.
Isn't that cool as hell? Prudat (brandon) at Card Empire does those
and he puts a ton of effort into them
Hell Yeah!!!
Pitino needs to read this to the guys before they play thursday! Very nicely said!!!!
I can't say I want this to happen.
I’d love to get the championship, and that would certainly be a glory road. But I’d rather get the championship without the guys playing to within their last breath.
LET ME SAY THIS
I love my cards, I am absolutey love with this team. This might have been the most beautifully written dreams for cardinal basketball. I made this site known to all my co-cards fans after reading this. It gave me chills. Thank you for caring about them! I love this team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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