The Road to Glory

"Archie Leach" <archie DeleteThis @leach.esq> wrote

> The College Basketball Pantheon:
>
> Duke
> UNC
> Kansas
> Kentucky
> UCLA
> Indiana

I just wanted to see that again.

> Not quite the Pantheon:
>
> Michigan State, Arizona
> ....who else?

No one. Possible exception to Lithuania.

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On Mar 19, 1:50 pm, Donnie Barnes <djbSPAMSU... RemoveThis @donniebarnes.com>
wrote:
[snip]
> Besides, there is at least one team that could still beat you on your best
> day, but it would take their best day to do it...UNC.
>
> --Donnie
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Woof god atheist, Donnie?

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:30:57 -0500, Edward M. Kennedy wrote:

> "Archie Leach" <archie.DeleteThis@leach.esq> wrote
>
>> The College Basketball Pantheon:
>>
>> Duke
>> UNC
>> Kansas
>> Kentucky
>> UCLA
>> Indiana
>
> I just wanted to see that again.

Wrong order.

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"mollusk" <afn02703 RemoveThis @afn.org> wrote

> [snip]
> > Besides, there is at least one team that could still beat you on your best
> > day, but it would take their best day to do it...UNC.
>
> Woof god atheist, Donnie?

Which is really strange, because woofing is about the only
way UNC is going to lose.

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:50:21 +0000, Donnie Barnes wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar, Michael Johnson wrote:
>
>> If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
>> Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are
>> Duke and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this
>> will be a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on
>> our best day, no one is beating us.
>
> Come on, now. Putting Kentucky in there because they are "storied" is,
> well, insane. They were an 8 seed, and lucky to get that. Big deal.

It's fair to say that UK and Duke were down this year . . . .

Still, a win's a win, and counts in the head-to-head.

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"mimus" <tinmimus99 RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote

> >> If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
> >> Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are
> >> Duke and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this
> >> will be a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on
> >> our best day, no one is beating us.
> >
> > Come on, now. Putting Kentucky in there because they are "storied" is,
> > well, insane. They were an 8 seed, and lucky to get that. Big deal.
>
> It's fair to say that UK and Duke were down this year . . . .

Whoa, look at that -- a properly punctuated aposiopesis!
This man wields rhetorical devices like a broadsword.

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:19:20 +0000, Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute wrote:

> In message news:e4etv29ua60g6i1ddop77tjpfq5fafa8pm@4ax.com, Archie Leach
> sprach forth the following:
>
>> mik_jhawkr RemoveThis @webtv.net (Michael Johnson) wrote:
>>
>>>I know everybody likes pulling for upsets in the tourney. If not for any
>>>reason other than an easier path to the championship for their team.
>>>I've been guilty of it in the past myself.
>>>
>>>however, this year is different for me. I want us to play the best teams
>>>possible. until recently, only jayhawk fans were giving this team any
>>>recognition at all. the media was most guilty.
>>>
>>>If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
>>>Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are Duke
>>>and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this will be
>>>a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on our best
>>>day, no one is beating us.
>>>
>>
>> You bring up an interesting point:
>>
>> The College Basketball Pantheon:
>>
>> Duke
>> UNC
>> Kansas
>> Kentucky
>> UCLA
>> Indiana
>
> Definitely a deep line in the sand between these 6 and everybody else.
>
>> Not quite the Pantheon:
>>
>> Michigan State
>> ....who else?
>
> Arizona
> UConn
> Cincy
> Georgetown
> Syracuse
> Louisville

Has anyone started the argument about which metric to use?

"There is a species of controversy, which, from the very nature of
language and of human ideas, is involved in perpetual ambiguity, and
can never, by any precaution or any definitions, be able to reach a
reasonable certainty or precision. These are the controversies
concerning the degrees of any quality or circumstance. Men may argue
to all eternity, whether Hannibal be a great, or a very great, or a
superlatively great man, what degree of beauty Cleopatra possessed,
what epithet of praise Livy or Thucydides is entitled to, without
bringing the controversy to any determination. The disputants may
here agree in their sense, and differ in the terms, or _vice versa_;
yet never be able to define their terms, so as to enter into each
other's meaning: Because the degrees of these qualities are not, like
quantity or number, susceptible of any exact mensuration, which may be
the standard in the controversy."

< David Hume, _Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion_ (1779)

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"mimus" <tinmimus99 RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote

> >>>I know everybody likes pulling for upsets in the tourney. If not for any
> >>>reason other than an easier path to the championship for their team.
> >>>I've been guilty of it in the past myself.
> >>>
> >>>however, this year is different for me. I want us to play the best teams
> >>>possible. until recently, only jayhawk fans were giving this team any
> >>>recognition at all. the media was most guilty.
> >>>
> >>>If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
> >>>Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are Duke
> >>>and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this will be
> >>>a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on our best
> >>>day, no one is beating us.
> >>>
> >>
> >> You bring up an interesting point:
> >>
> >> The College Basketball Pantheon:
> >>
> >> Duke
> >> UNC
> >> Kansas
> >> Kentucky
> >> UCLA
> >> Indiana
> >
> > Definitely a deep line in the sand between these 6 and everybody else.
> >
> >> Not quite the Pantheon:
> >>
> >> Michigan State
> >> ....who else?
> >
> > Arizona
> > UConn
> > Cincy
> > Georgetown
> > Syracuse
> > Louisville
>
> Has anyone started the argument about which metric to use?

Is that a rhetorical question?

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:50:00 -0500, Edward M. Kennedy wrote:

> "mimus" <tinmimus99.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote
>
>> >>>I know everybody likes pulling for upsets in the tourney. If not for any
>> >>>reason other than an easier path to the championship for their team.
>> >>>I've been guilty of it in the past myself.
>> >>>
>> >>>however, this year is different for me. I want us to play the best teams
>> >>>possible. until recently, only jayhawk fans were giving this team any
>> >>>recognition at all. the media was most guilty.
>> >>>
>> >>>If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
>> >>>Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are Duke
>> >>>and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this will be
>> >>>a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on our best
>> >>>day, no one is beating us.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> You bring up an interesting point:
>> >>
>> >> The College Basketball Pantheon:
>> >>
>> >> Duke
>> >> UNC
>> >> Kansas
>> >> Kentucky
>> >> UCLA
>> >> Indiana
>> >
>> > Definitely a deep line in the sand between these 6 and everybody else.
>> >
>> >> Not quite the Pantheon:
>> >>
>> >> Michigan State
>> >> ....who else?
>> >
>> > Arizona
>> > UConn
>> > Cincy
>> > Georgetown
>> > Syracuse
>> > Louisville
>>
>> Has anyone started the argument about which metric to use?
>
> Is that a rhetorical question?

Of course.

Just a hook for the Hume quote you snipped.

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:53:40 -0500, Edward M. Kennedy wrote:

> "mimus" <tinmimus99.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote
>
>> >> If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
>> >> Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are
>> >> Duke and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this
>> >> will be a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on
>> >> our best day, no one is beating us.
>> >
>> > Come on, now. Putting Kentucky in there because they are "storied" is,
>> > well, insane. They were an 8 seed, and lucky to get that. Big deal.
>>
>> It's fair to say that UK and Duke were down this year . . . .
>
> Whoa, look at that -- a properly punctuated aposiopesis!

The aposiopesization of rsbc!

> This man wields rhetorical devices like a broadsword.

You can't hurt yourself as easily with it as with an epee, but it's not as
heavy as a broadaxe.

> --Tedward
>
> Can you tell my team is no longer in it?

I hope we get all our juniors back.

And a couple of power forwards, please, God.

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On Mar 19, 6:03 am, mik_jha... DeleteThis @webtv.net (Michael Johnson) wrote:
> I know everybody likes pulling for upsets in the tourney. If not for any
> reason other than an easier path to the championship for their team.
> I've been guilty of it in the past myself.
>
> however, this year is different for me. I want us to play the best teams
> possible. until recently, only jayhawk fans were giving this team any
> recognition at all. the media was most guilty.
>
> If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
> Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are Duke
> and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this will be
> a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on our best
> day, no one is beating us.
>
> RCJHGOKU

Eh, I've always been a fan of the idea of the toughest teams in the
path going down before we have to deal with them (see 1988 for
example), but in retrospect it would be really cool if that happened.
I'll happily worry about the Salukis for now, though . . .

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On Mon, 19 Mar, Michael Johnson wrote:
> If the Hawks go all the way, look at the path they might possibly take.
> Kentucky, UCLA and Carolina. The only storied programs left out are Duke
> and maybe Indiana. throw in defending champion Florida and this will be
> a mighty feat. I'm praying for it. this team is special, and on our best
> day, no one is beating us.

Come on, now. Putting Kentucky in there because they are "storied" is,
well, insane. They were an 8 seed, and lucky to get that. Big deal.

Besides, there is at least one team that could still beat you on your best
day, but it would take their best day to do it...UNC.


--Donnie

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