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I May Light Dabo Swinney On Fire.

By streetlightlily | Filed in NCAAF

Dabo Swinney is a classless piece of shit. There’s no getting around it. After Clemson defeated Georgia Tech, Dabo decided he would come out and trash GT QB Joshua Nesbitt. “[he] needed 44 yards coming into the game to beat Woody Dantzler’s record…he’ll have to get them elsewhere.” Yes, it’s not over the top trash talk, but as the coach of an opposing team, it crosses a line to call out a specific player. You come across as petty. Especially when you’ve lost to the other team 3 times in the past 2 years. Especially when you were never the coach of the record holder. What does the record have to do with you? Nothing. And to call Nesbitt out, in the media, is going to do nothing more than piss off Paul Johnson. I’m not sure that’s something you want to do. You’re a grown man who goes by the name of “Dabo.”

In all honesty, the way that Georgia Tech played on Saturday did not warrant a victory. Stupid penalties and dropped passes plagued the Yellow Jackets all day long. Georgia Tech does not look like the same team from last year, or even the year before. The fact of the matter is this: Clemson beat a mediocre team, and the coach decided to talk in the post game press conference like they’re world beaters. They aren’t. They’re not even close. And with any luck, God will smite them with losses to NC State, Florida State, Wake Forest, AND South Carolina. I honestly never expected to see something so classless come from anyone outside of Athens, Georgia. And Clemson has now been added to the list of teams whom I hope never win another game in any game ever created from now until the end of eternity.

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Um, Yeah…

By streetlightlily | Filed in NCAAB

Suffice it to say my brackets don’t so much warrant being tracked anymore. I lost fully half of my games today. On the bright side though, if my Yellow Jackets can get past Ohio State, the road looks a little easier for them now. Wow, Kansas, what the hell?

My name is Emily, and I can’t pick brackets for shit. Please tell me I’m not the only one.

(Keri says she’s still doing fine, but I’ve still yet to see a bracket from her, so we’ll have to see about that)

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So far it looks like picking with my heart over my head is the way to go. I still lost 7 games in the homer bracket, but that’s two less than legit. As for mascots and color schemes, not so hot. Mascots dropped 13 games, while pretty uniforms dropped a whopping 15. Damn. For future reference, I don’t recommend either of those two strategies. Georgetown has fully pissed me off in every single bracket though, so I’ve got that going for me….Which is nice. Read the remainder of this entry »

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Keri’s First Round MM Quick Picks

By lilswede22 | Filed in Uncategorized

Here are my first round picks:
Kansas over Lenigh
UNLV over Northern Iowa
Michigan State over New Mexico State
Maryland over Houston
San Diego State over Tennessee
Georgetown over O-hi-oh(!?)
Georgia Tech over Ok State (youre welcome, Emily)
Ohio State over UC Santa Barbara
Syracuse over Vermont
Conzaga over Florida State
Butler over UTEP
Murray State over Vandy
Minnesota over Xavier
Pittsburgh over Oakland
BYU over Florida
Kansas State over N. Texas

Kentucky over E. Tenn State
Texas over Wake
Cornell over Temple
Wisconsin over Wofford
Marquette over Washington
New Mexico over Montana
Clemson over Missouri
West Virginia over Morgan State
Duke over UAPB
Lousiville over Cali
Texas A&M over Utah State
Purdont, I mean Purdue over Siena
Old D. over ND
Baylor over Sam Houston St.
Saint Marys over Richmond
Villanova over Robert Morris

Those are my picks! Right now i am sitting 3/3 with wins from Villanova, Old Dominion, and BYU..we will see how the rest of round 1 shakes up!

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Tourney Talk Volume 4: South Region

By streetlightlily | Filed in NCAAB

1 Duke vs 16 Arkansas Pine-Bluff – All four go to the Blue Devils here. Believe me, I hate Duke. Hate. I would like to punch every last Duke fan in the groin, but they have decent unis, are from my home ACC, Georgia Tech beat them in the regular season and played them close in the conference tourney. The Blue Devils knock off the Golden Lions because, well, Devils > Lions.

8 California vs 9 Louisville – The Bears only advance in the mascot bracket. Having a hard time picking either of the Pac 10 teams this year, but bears scare the hell outta me, Cardinals, not so much. Louisville dresses better though.

5 Texas A & M vs 12 Utah St – This is the second match-up between identical mascots (step your game up guys,) so again I gotta go with the higher seed, Texas A & M. Went with A & M over State in homer and legit too, but their unis are terrible, so I went with Utah State in the blue and white there.

4 Purdue vs 13 Siena – Actually picked the upset over Purdon’t in my legit bracket, but Siena falls in my other three. I just don’t trust the Boilermakers, that guy looks shady.

5 Notre Dame vs 12 Old Dominion – This one splits between the two. My distaste for Notre Dame has me picking the upset in both homer and legit. I like the blue and gold over the blue and gray here, and you can’t go against a drunk Irishman this close to St Patty’s, so the Irish take both of those.

3 Baylor vs 14 Sam Houston – Going with Baylor in all four here. I like the green and gold of the Bears over the Bearkats in orange and white. Also way too hard to pick the upset, Baylor advances.

7 Richmond vs 10 St Mary’s – This one splits between the two with legit and homer going to Richmond. I’m not gonna lie, i put the Gaels through over the Spiders in the mascot tourney simply because I would like to get rid of the spiders as quickly as possible. They’re icky. Also digging the blue, gold and white more than the blue and red, St Mary’s advances.

2 Villanova vs 15 Robert Morris – Wildcats would mangle Colonials in real life (guns, not so accurate back in the day,) so they get the nod. It was a close one with the uniforms; Villanova’s navy and white vs Robert Morris’ blue and white. I like the navy better, Villanova moves on. Robert Morris also falls in homer and legit.

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Tourney Talk Volume 3: East Region

By streetlightlily | Filed in NCAAB

1 Kentucky vs 16 East Tennessee St – Hard to pick against Kentucky in the first round, so I didn’t. All four of m brackets have the Wildcats advancing. I figured the Wildcats would maul the Buccaneers, leaving them unable to plunder and pillage the ports (alliteration!) of this fine country. The clean look of Kentucky in blue and white wins out over the blue and gold from East Tennessee St.

8 Texas vs 9 Wake – I got Wake everywhere in this match-up. First off, take a look at Wake’s mascot. A demon deacon may not sound too bad, but that thing is fucking creepy. I’ve also seen Texas stumble in the regular season, so a mild upset here wouldn’t be surprising. And finally, burnt orange is, and always has been, an ugly ass color.

5 Temple vs 12 Cornell – I’m blaming ESPN all day long if the fact that they sold me on Cornell comes back to bite me in the ass. I’ve got them in three of four here. The only loss coming by virtue of having “red and white” as opposed to “cherry and white” like Temple. I feel like I do have to justify my mascot choice her a little bit more than the others. Don’t get me wrong, I freaking love owls. They’re cute, they can turn their heads all the way around, they carry Harry Potter’s mail, but an owl would not be able to take down a color. I’m picking Big Red here because A: it’s funny, and B: it’s one of my all time favorite chewing gums.

4 Wisconsin vs 13 Wofford – Wisconsin 3-1. Badgers are badasses, and I’m pretty sure the Terrier Wofford is talking about is a Scottish terrier, which I’m almost certain wouldn’t be able to weather that fight. Wofford’s black and gold does manage to save face and topple Wisconsin’s cardinal and white to avoid the shut out. I’m kind of wishing I had picked Wofford in my homer bracket because I do have an inexplicable soft spot for the fellows from Spartanburg, but I didn’t, and I’m not changing it now. In the real world though, Wisconsin advances.

6 Marquette vs 11 Washington – All four go to Marquette because Washington got in by virtue of the Pac 10′s automatic bid, in a year that the Pac 10 fell well short of standards. I again ran into my distaste for purple on men, so Marquette gets m vote there while wearing blue and gold. Also picking the Warriors to come out and play-ay over the Huskies.

3 New Mexico vs 14 Montana – New Mexico 3-1 against Montana, only dropping the mascot challenge when the Lobos went down to the predatory Grizzlies. As far as uniforms go, the cherry and silver of New Mexico is a little bit more crisp than the maroon and silver of Montana. the other two brackets just made sens to pick New Mexico.

7 Clemson vs 10 Missouri – I have Clemson in all four brackets, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Missouri pull the slight upset here. Clemson is kind of schizophrenic at times, and has a history of collapsing, so this game could easily go either way. Obviously siding with the ACC in my homer bracket. I overcame my hatred for purple uniforms here because, even though I hate orange, and the color scheme really, really shouldn’t work, some how it’s so heinous that it just does. Since the mascot bout is a tie with both teams being tigers, the higher seed advances.

2 West Virginia vs 15 Morgan St – The cousins take all four in a glorious celebration with burning couches. I have a feeling that the Mountaineers are one of the few mascots in this tourney that could handle the Bears, which makes this an interesting match-up. I’m still despising the orange and blue together, so Morgan St is shit outta luck against West Virginia’s blue and gold. Other two brackets went easily to West Virginia as well.

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Tourney Talk Part 2: West Region

By streetlightlily | Filed in NCAAB

1 Syracuse vs 16 Vermont – ‘Cuse swept my brackets through the first round, mainly because I couldn’t justify a 16/1 upset. Not even with the mascots. Regardless of the fact that their mascot is a color, I had to pick Syracuse over the Catamounts of Vermont. I can’t figure out how one beats a color. At least not in the fist round.

8 Gonzaga vs 9 Florida State – Again I went with the same team in all four brackets, this time in favor of Florida State. I went with FSU because of ACC affiliation (homer) and the fact that they have the same colors as my old high school (lame, but a girl can be sentimental sometimes.) On the mascot front, I refuse to advance a single bulldog past the first round. Bulldogs are probably the least intimidating and unoriginal mascots in all of college sports. Second most common mascot, in fact. What I don’t get is this: the bulldog strikes fear into the heart of no one. This is a dog that literally can’t even mate without human intervention. The underbite of the bulldog makes it all but impossible for them to inflict any harm on anything. They can’t even chase you at a respectable pace. Seminoles spear the shit out of the mutts.

5 Butler vs 12 UTEP – The same logic has Butler with an early exit from the mascot bracket, but talent has them overcoming the Miners in the other three with a little help from a classic blue and white color scheme.

4 Vanderbilt vs 13 Murray St – All four of my brackets have Vandy here. Murray St made it close in the uniform category, but I went with Vanderbilt because, well, I felt like it. I also feel like the Commodores are a little tougher than the Racers mascot wise. Looks to me like their logo features a jockey and i’m not quite cool with that.

6 Xavier vs 11 Minnesota – I have another interesting split here. Homer bracket has Minnesota out of respect for lilswede22 and her native land of 10,00 lakes. The color scheme is also favoring Minnesota, while talent goes to Xavier. The mascot battle comes down to Musketeers vs Golden Gophers. Au Revoir, gopher.

3 Pittsburgh vs 14 Oakland – Three to one in favor of Pittsburgh here. This blue and gold/black and gold match up went to Pitt with the blue in a close one. I feel more comfortable siding with Oakland’s Grizzlies over the Panthers, but when talking actual basketball, Pitt advances in the other two brackets.

7 BYU vs 10 Florida – BYU sweeps here on talent and hatred for UF. Never been a fan of blue and orange, and according to the Mythbusters, gators are really only dangerous in or in the immediate vicinity of the water.

2 Kansas St vs 15 North Texas – After seeing Kansas St in the Big 12 tourney, it’s easy to pick them, especially in the first round. That being said, colors and mascots definitely have me leaning towards North Texas. I can’t bring myself to pick a men’s team wearing purple, and again, I don’t yet have an acceptable method for defeating a color as a mascot. Even if they are facing off against the Wildcats, I’m going with Mean Green.

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Tourney Talk: Volume 1

By streetlightlily | Filed in NCAAB

I posted on twitter a few days ago that I would be filling out four brackets this year and tracking their success here. The four brackets are as follows: Georgia Tech ridiculous homer bracket, pretty uniforms/color schemes bracket, mascot bracket, and my legit bracket. I failed to get this post up before last  night’s play-in between Winthrop and Arkansas Pine-Bluff. Happily, all four of my brackets had it right with the black and gold clad Golden Lions of Arkansas Pine-Bluff (early GT opponents) defeating the Eagles in garnet and gold from Winthrop. Here’s a look at the first round match-ups in the Midwest Region. Read the remainder of this entry »

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We’re Back..Finally

By streetlightlily | Filed in Uncategorized

After a long, long, unintentional hiatus, we’ve decided that a complete relaunch/redo would be nice.  And what better time than March? We’ve got March Madness and spring training baseball, as well as a few other activities, to keep us busy. Bear with us while we get things set back up and get reacquainted with the site. Strap in, it’s gonna be fun, we promise.

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