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game » NCAA Championship Game — Ohio State vs. Florida — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:21:35 +0000

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[...] I wanted to post this Monday after the season finale of Prison Break, but the Ohio State/Florida game was on (and didn’t end well) so I never got around to commenting on the last episode of my (currently) favorite show. (Spoiler Warning) [...]

By: sportsMonkey

sportsMonkey — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:57:39 +0000

Lots of Fla fans masquerading as OSU fans in this comments thread…

>>How is losing impressive?

>>We are losers.

>>Nobody wants our coach.

>>We are pathetic!

Donovan’s a great coach, but he shares company with Matta, who does have everyone’s respect. And no, if a couple of players miss a couple of three-pointers, it’s not the coach’s fault.

Boy, you sure see the bandwagon fans come out when people actually start expecting championships each year, or nothing else. THAT’S what’s pathetic to me.

It’s pathetic to expect a bunch of 18-year olds to win a championship or otherwise risk being branded “losers.”

I think it’s pretty sad that a team can come in second from among a tourney of 65 of the nation’s best and be considered a “loser” by some. Or the f-ball team, totally dominating highly ranked competition for an entire season, then losing the championship game and being called “losers.”

Last night, at a local restaurant, my three-year-old walked past a video monitor where the women’s b-ball championship was showing, and said, “Cool! Issat the Buckeyes?” Several strangers overheard her and laughed, someone clapped, another said “O-H!!”

The point is that she saw the game and got excited, and that’s what’s important. The players had fun, the fans had fun watching them, and we all shared it together. That’s what it’s all about.

As for the coaches, you’ll always see the Florida players snapping their jerseys, thumping their chests, pointing at the camera, but you sure don’t see any of Matta’s players doing anything like that.

“Losers.” Not in my book.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:54:06 +0000

Win or lose, we should be proud of the Buckeyes. They gave us a lot to cheer for this year.

And I think it’s worth keeping the Gainesville police officer who was injured in the post-game celebration in our thoughts. Godspeed.

Great job writers of MotSaG. Nice to see Buckeye fans with such estimable qualities as rationalization, logic, and a clear concept of reality.

By: POJO_Risin

POJO_Risin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:46:54 +0000

56% is manageable from the 3 point line?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

56% IS GOOD FOR A CENTER SHOOTING LAYUPS…

However, big time teams step it up, it’s more than one team getting a lucky break over another team.

I agree, if ONE player (see Jamar Butler or Ron Lewis) had stepped it up from the outside…just one…

this game could have been different.

They didn’t.

Brewer, Humphery (the dagger) and Green all came out and played.

That’s not about coaching, that’s about a team that has been through the wars.

Oh, and to the Florida fans that are talking smack about tOSU fans, I’ve been to the swamp, probably more than the people talking smack about OSU fans…

so before you hypocrites start rollin’ about OSU fans, look in the mirror.

It amazes me, this Rodney Dangerfield bull$&%t I’ve been listening too from CERTAIN Florida fans…spare me.

By: Albert

Albert — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:01:49 +0000

If we could shoot, we might have given the Gators a game. But we didn’t and they did. Monkey’s math is impressive, if they had missed two 3′s and we had made two 3′s. . . if we had scored more points and they had scored less…. We are pathetic! I am embarrassed to read this rubbish. We are losers. They own us. We better get over it or try to do something else. They graduate a higher percentage of players than we do, they haven’t been on suspension. Nobody wants our coach. The whole world wants their coach. We had better wake up and see the world as it is and not as we think it should be. Our problem is that we want to be like them, but we can’t because we make too many excuses. It is not the 1960′s anymore. I have hope for Griffin. For the rest of you losers, there is no hope. I’m out.

By: el Kaiser

el Kaiser — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:54:05 +0000

mts – thanks for bringing thoughtful insight and intelligent discussion. You make blogging worth it!

I don’t know what’s wrong with the rest of you people, completely ignoring the problem at hand — OSU fans are the devil!

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:18:23 +0000

Joakim Noah is a waste of space, but great teams find a way to pick up the slack when it’s crunch time. Ohio State did almost all it could to win, but Florida did what championship teams do: they made shots when they needed them. As a Buckeye fan, I’m not at all displeased with this team, they played hard and with a lot of heart. I agree with Tom, Florida made their 3s and OSU didn’t, it’s that simple.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:15:08 +0000

Bad coaching? Greg Oden dominated Florida, but when you are trading Oden dunks for Gator 3-pointers, you can’t win. Odds are you are going to shoot for your average, and unfortunately the Buckeyes weren’t able to make a couple more 3s (and the Gators hit their clutch 3s). Honestly, I don’t see where Thad Matta got outcoached. Bottom line: Florida hit there 3s, and Ohio State did not.