This is what pisses me off about last year.
We were a national championship contender. I mean, yeah, we won the whole damn thing, but in November we were just contenders. And we lost to that team? I'm not sure they weren't cheating for this game.
Which brings me to another point. I know it seems I'm getting off topic, but I'll bring it back, I promise:
So I saw a show a million years ago about counterfeiting money. Some nerd figured out how to fake everything and he printed up a bunch of 20-dollar bills. And he used them at a bunch of places, buying little things that were $2 and getting the $18 in change. Eventually, some gas station clerk tested the bill and found out it was counterfeit and called the police and he was caught a little ways down the road. But they said the problem isn't that he got $100 in change for the 5 or 6 bills he used - it's that all the businesses lose a little bit of confidence in the money they're accepting from customers. The power of the currency is in that people believe it is worth something. When people start to think it isn't worth anything, then it starts to not be worth anything.
So, when we start to doubt that everyone is playing on the level, the wins don't mean as much. The game doesn't mean as much. And if the game doesn't mean much, then the NCAA isn't doing their job.
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