Fire Tubby?

So I have arrived. And no, I am not the true Gimel. I only pretend to be him, and use his likeness as my avatar (until he sues me proper).

Honestly, who can forget Gimel from back during those up-and-coming Wildcat years. When the Pitino ran his boys into the ground so that they could run everybody else off the floor. Back when Wildcat players could party at Banana’s Tavern and not have to worry about ESPN.com linking to some drunken pictures of them groping co-eds posted on some blog. Back when drop-outs don’t seduce a basketball player in order to claim rape and lawsuit money. Man, those were the days.

But these are great days as well. You’ve got Dukies doing everything they can to smudge the sparking image that their Athletics PR took years to create. You’ve got the Hoosiers firing a decent coach and then hiring… another decent coach, while a vocal minority rumbles about how “Knight wouldn’t put up with that.” You’ve got Pitino in Louisville, since JoAnne decided that she didn’t like Boston since they were about to ride Rick out on a rail. “Those Kentucky people treated us like royality, and I guess I can get over the lack of Prada…”

You’ve got Tennessee fans actually paying attention to basketball game, now that they have a coach that convinced the talent he has to actually try. You’ve got the National Champs in Florida, who’s fans are now going to start setting the bar to Spurrier-like levels — that’s all they know to do, after all. (Just wait; Donovan is going to have a “dissapointing” 7-loss season.)

And you’ve got a state full of basketball fans, most that root for our Big Blue, most of which are quite the educated fans. And, more wonderfully, you’ve got a bunch of good-for-nothing Laz-E-Boy coaches who, thanks to the power of call-in radio talk shows and the Internet, get to voice their overly-passionate opinion about the team and the coach. After all, anything that happens to the team is the coach’s fault.

And me and my boy da ‘master get to make fun of them. Wonderful times indeed.

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