We've got less than a week until Selection Sunday, and maybe it's just because my team is squarely on the bubble, but I can't take any more of this bracketology stuff. I'd rather be balls deep in a discussion on DiPS ERA and VORP. I can't take this shit anymore.
Bracketology has evolved from a cute little projection system into a full-blown pandemic.
"This team is 5-5 vs the RPI top 100!"
"That team sucks. This team is 10-2 in its last 12!"
"Fuck you, Steve. That team lost to Alcorn State three years ago."
All we need now is a chick doing her own bracketology based on which teams have the cutest mascot or prettiest uniforms, and it will have reached office football pool levels of maddening. Joe Lunardi will update his bracket every day this week. Hillary Clinton thinks that lacks credibility.
My biggest beef: De facto play-in games. The talking heads are saying the loser of Villanova/Syracuse on Wednesday is "out". Really? Syracuse loses to a decent team so their resume is automatically worse than someone else?
"This team needs to make the finals of their conference tourney..."
So now we're giving more credence to a fucking single elimination tourney than a much larger sample sized regular season? Hulk Hogan thinks that's illogical.
I'm out. Keep reading this drivel every day, douchebags. I'm actually going to watch games and be entertained by the play on the floor. I might even clean a portion of my home*.
Monday, March 10, 2008
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It all gets a little overwhelming considering everybody wants to put their two cents out there. But Lunardi's track record makes me inclined to believe his stuff. He might be a St. Joe's homer, but the fact that he pretty much has a 99% success rate puts his opinion above others in my mind.
Despite the fact that he's a fat, humorless douche bag.
99% isn't what it would seem, though. You can basically lock in 28-30 bids after the big conferences play the first round. After that it only takes a few hours of research on the committee's selections and you can predict who's going. That really doesn't take an intelligence above a barely passing community college student.
Lunardi does this stuff from the beginning of the season to the end. Come on.
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