Who else wants to see George Mason win it all?

[sasquatch]

Right now the soundtrack from the movie "Hoosiers" is playing in my head as I post wheneve I think about it.

[bugslsu9]

1. Not I

Because that would require my LSU Tigers to lose, and I really don't want that to happen.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Not me. They got lucky against UConn.

John Boone didn't play enough. UConn should have won.

[sasquatch]

3. The way UConn played they deserved to lose though

I just love watchin' a Cindarella team threaten to win it all and conquer all the big schools.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. BULLSHIT.

UConn is the BEST TEAM FOREVER AND EVER and don't YOU forget it.

:P

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[sasquatch]

7. That's an unusual handle you got there

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[meegbear]

14. The poster's been tombstomed ... what was the handle?

[JohnKleeb]

15. JoeBidensWhiteTeeth or something like that

[sasquatch]

16. Yep that's his handle

If it was "Pink Tutu Biden" we would've known he was a good guy and not a troll.
:D

[JohnKleeb]

17. Ive actually seen Biden

during the Bolton near where they were having the Bolton Confirmation Hearings, Lieberman was there too and I heard him say something and it reminded me of my tenth grade english teacher and Ben Stein combined.

[JohnKleeb]

6. Yeah

Its funny really since Mason was a team I ahd knocked out in the first round and I expected the other local teams to go further like Georgestown and GW.

[sasquatch]

8. I don't think anyone expected George Maxon to get this far

[JohnKleeb]

10. Nope

I bet alot of people were surprised that they beat Michigan State too.

[5thGenDemocrat]

11. Me

My old high school, Saginaw Arthur Hill, just won the Michigan Class "A" (big schools) state basketball championship this weekend, with an 85-84 double overtime victory over Okemos. It was the longest Class "A" game in state history and AHHS earned its first state hoop title in 62 years.
George Mason winning it all wouldn't be that good -- but it would be pretty damned good.
John
AHHS '75. The school's named after a lumber baron, BTW, not the Canadian actor who played Owen Marshall.

[KamaAina]

12. Me... NOT!!!!

It's nothing but a conservative sinkhole that should've been turned into a strip mall before it was too late.

http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=413

The heavy stream of money invested in George Mason University offers a striking example of the attention that conservative foundations have paid to the recruitment and training of college youth. Located just outside the Washington, D.C. beltway and offering good access to national decision makers, George Mason University has been a magnet for right-wing money for over a decade.

From 1992 through 1994, the 12 foundations invested a combined total of $8.55 million in various academic programs and institutes of George Mason University. This amount placed the University third among all academic and non-academic grantees, traiing only the more prestigious University of Chicago and the Heritage Foundation. Among other things, awards to George Mason University supported the work of the Center for Market Processes ($2.1 million), the Center for the Study of Public Choice ($524,100), the Institute for Humane Studies ($3 million), and the Law and Economics Program and Center ($1.4 million), headed by Henry Manne.

Both the Institute for Humane Studies(IHS) and the Center for Market Processes(CMP) offer training programs for young conservatives to prepare them for public policy careers.

Yuk. Sounds like as close as a public college can get to Liberty or Bob Jones. :puke: I just knew everyone (outside Conn., where I grew up, but you'd figured that out already, right?) would be lionizing those overgrown Division II meatballs just because of the "Hoosiers" syndrome. I just friggin' knew it.

Time to go throw a few more bricks through some plate glass... :argh: What the Sam Hill is the "Institute for Humane Studies", anyway?

[SteppingRazor]

13. Never! GO GATORS!! n/t

[DrGonzoLives]

18. If I hear "Hoosiers" mentioned one more time during the final four...

:argh:

[sasquatch]

19. Tehe

:evilgrin:

[DrGonzoLives]

20. *rant*

"Hoosiers" presents a completely unrealistic slice of Indiana basketball, forwarding this notion that the state is full of basketball fanatics and every small podunk school has a chance because they all played in the same tournament.

And, woe, but it was the end of the world in 1997 or so when they instituted a class system in basketball.

The truth? Small schools rarely if ever made it out of sectional tournaments. Year after year, it was the bigger schools from Evansville, or Bloomington, or New Albany, or Indianapolis, or Ft. Wayne that would win it all. Small farming schools would be lucky to have enough players to field a team some years.

The movie is sentimental crap that created an idiotic illusion in the minds of America, to the point where we had to listen to smartass ESPN sportscasting dipshits complain about the "death" of Indiana high school basketball. Using the class system saved the sport.

*Actual mascot of the Clay City High teams

[mvd]

21. I like to root for the underdog

So why not, I guess? I lived on the Maryland side of the DC area, so I don't really have a local connection - but George Mason seems likable enough.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

22. I'm rooting for LSU

geaux Tigers!

Ok, so they beat my team (see avatar on left), but they have spunk and personality. I think GM's Cinderella run has run its course.

[Vox_Reason]

23. They beat my Tar Heels, so I hope they win it all.

No dishonor in losing to the eventual champion (as Carolina was last year.)

[Burma Jones]

24. Me - I used to sleep with a Mason grad.........