Muskie
04-02-2012, 09:12 AM
Sweet Melancholia--The Offseason
By WKRQ59
Each year at this time, I suffer a sweet melancholia. My favorite season of the year, the college basketball conflicts, is about to end and I'll be faced with almost seven months of rumour, speculation, false-carding, extreme hype of incoming freshmen and potential recruits and often unrealistic expectations of the season to come that is known as The OffSeason.
Having survived realistic threats to the destruction of my eternal optimism experienced by close association with Xavier's 3-23 season of 1972-73 which featured lowlights of 4, 6 and 13-game losing streaks, the older I get, the more I fret over our beloved Musketeers' future and the hope renewed each off-season for a Final Four no matter how impossible it may seem.
To quote the late Gilda Radner in her wonderful role of Emily Litella on Saturday Night Live, "It's Always Something." If it's not some big-6 university coming to steal our coach, or a budding superstar (see David West, Derrick Brown, Jordan Crawford or Tu Holloway) pondering a jump to the NBA, it's a player transferring or a committed recruit having a change of heart. (Read More (http://www.xavierhoops.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22102))
By WKRQ59
Each year at this time, I suffer a sweet melancholia. My favorite season of the year, the college basketball conflicts, is about to end and I'll be faced with almost seven months of rumour, speculation, false-carding, extreme hype of incoming freshmen and potential recruits and often unrealistic expectations of the season to come that is known as The OffSeason.
Having survived realistic threats to the destruction of my eternal optimism experienced by close association with Xavier's 3-23 season of 1972-73 which featured lowlights of 4, 6 and 13-game losing streaks, the older I get, the more I fret over our beloved Musketeers' future and the hope renewed each off-season for a Final Four no matter how impossible it may seem.
To quote the late Gilda Radner in her wonderful role of Emily Litella on Saturday Night Live, "It's Always Something." If it's not some big-6 university coming to steal our coach, or a budding superstar (see David West, Derrick Brown, Jordan Crawford or Tu Holloway) pondering a jump to the NBA, it's a player transferring or a committed recruit having a change of heart. (Read More (http://www.xavierhoops.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22102))