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Denver — I watch too much NCAA Tournament analysis on CBS and ESPN — way too much.
Even when Seth Davis’ words make me cringe, I don’t change the channel. For some reason, I’m sucked in to what these so-called “experts” have to say about teams I know nothing about, like Cal State Fullerton.
And if the broadcasters words meant anything, the MSU men’s basketball team would be in decent shape.
Although Bob Knight and Seth Davis don’t see Tom Izzo’s squad moving on to the Sweet 16 in Houston, Hubert Brown, Digger Phelps and Dick Vitale do. Earlier today, they all said Izzo’s leadership and the experience of senior guard Drew Neitzel will be too much for the Panthers to handle.
And if sophomore forward Raymar Morgan is clicking at the same time — goodbye competition.
Thanks for playing and goodnight.
But the important thing to remember is, opinions don’t matter. It’s going to come down to who makes shots down the stretch.
Every NCAA Tournament pool I’ve ever been in with my girlfriend, she’s found a way to beat me. Not just beat me, but destroy me and any advantage I thought I had simply because I watch 50 hours of basketball a week.
And I call myself a prognosticator?
It doesn’t matter what Knight, Vitale or anybody else says.
Teams are going to play harder and make shots that those predicting it never expected.
I just hope this year I can slip past her in the pool.
Ehh, who am I kidding, I looked too far into each matchup yet again.
Those filling out brackets know you can’t pick a team simply because they were from a powerhouse conference or they have a star who scores 24 points a game.
It always comes back to bite you.
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Judge Judy said: You should all be ashamed of yourselves! If this were a girl and a strange white man did this, you would be outraged!
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Economist Alum said: I think what they're trying to say is that rather than just yelling and wanting to preserve your little program how about you learn a little bit about the facts of the situation and the budget and some real numbers and act professionally instead of throwing allegations around, calling the state news "middle-class white boys" and other stunts which expose the disorganized and immature nature of your rant, i mean protest.
If you want to be taken seriously, than get some business students together and show how you can make the budget work to get what you want accomplished under the realities of Michigans economy.
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Sparty said: I believe your logic falls apart in the assumption that you make stating that the 90s were a time of "wholesome" tv role models.
Jerry Springer et al are not post Y2K and any argument that TV held a positive morality influence is highly dubious.
On to your next argument (that the data speaks otherwise), this is incorrect and using a general number based on a difference over time is not statistics and is implying causation by mere correlation.
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Next time you find it necessary to comment on the the ridiculousness of protests by minorities maybe you should try and understand that we are not all as privileged as you uneducated assholes.
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No, we can't. And Barack Obama is going to "fix" the national economy just as Jennifer Granholm fixed Michigan's.
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Judge Judy said: You should all be ashamed of yourselves! If this were a girl and a strange white man did this, you would be outraged!

