Basketball Schadenfreude

It isn't often you get to write one of these, but the picture in the AJC says it all:

(Image: Compton @AJC)

Between this picture, which pretty accurately sums up the whole debacle that was Georgia Tech's 36 point effort in the ACC tournament, and the Auburn point shaving non-sense, I have to ask: "How did we lose to these jokers?"

I know I've been pretty Jekyll and Hydish this season about Georgia basketball, but we lost to Auburn, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, and South Carolina, all teams that are done mailing it in. I guess the good news is that South Dakota State is in the NCAA tournament, so that win looks pretty good.

Anytime you get to see Georgia Tech's coach with this look on his face at the ACC tournament (and for all practical purposes a home game), and let's face it, we have seen it plenty recently, it isn't a terrible day.
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Not a Bad Weekend - Tebow, South Carolina and Tennessee

Yesterday was a good day for those searching for proof that God loves others the same way he does Tim Tebow: South Carolina picks up the first points in the Fulmer Cup. Also, the media's Tebowmania came crashing down in a cavalcade of cliches why Tim Tebow might be a super good dude, but he is a left-handed version of Byron Leftwich. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Byron might not be as medically talented as Tebow, but he does have a couple of cool rides.

Tennessee football. I think that is all I have to say about that, right?

There are few things I love more than Schadenfreude, if for no other reason than feeling superior to South Carolina/Tennessee fans and wearing ascots at parties and saying Schadenfreude. Schadenfreude.
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Tech Misery

Skimming GT message boards gives us gems like these:

• Let's cancel the series - The Hive
  
• It's just a game dog. - Stingtalk
  
• GT's "savior" at QB regrets going to GT? - Stingtalk
  
• Sweet bitter tears - Get the Picture

I'm definitely looking forward to tomorrow.

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Gator Misery

This is delicious. There's no bigger Gator sunshine pumper than Pat Dooley which makes this piece so much more tasty.

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Random Thoughts on the Cocktail Party

Watching our special teams play was like watching a teenage cutter holding a box of Wusthofs. It was sad and gross to watch, yet the plot line would make a pretty decent Lifetime Movie with Meredith Baxter playing the role of Coach Richt. It was enough to make me miss Jon Fabris...a little.

But we won. And that's all that matters. After 17 trips to Jacksonville, I can tell you I've seen us play way smarter and lose.

And why did we win? Because the defense, which was a rolling shipment of fail last year, simply got dramatically better. The result -- If you have a few minutes to enjoy a cold beer and warm schadenfreude, read these Gator recaps from Orson Swindle and Run Home Jack over at EDSBS:

"You could give Charlie Weis a Garmin, fifteen Sherpas, a moving walkway made up of arrows saying "MARZIPAN FACTORY THIS WAY FREE SAMPLES" and the ball on the eight yard line and that piece of shit still couldn't find the end zone." - RHJ

"But don't say this is all necessary. It's not. Meyer's struggles in his first year got him to nine wins. [NAME REDACTED] learned and unlearned basic arithmetic on the job and still won seven games. This team will lose to Vanderbilt. This team will lose to South Carolina. This team will lose to Florida State, and they will miss a bowl game for the first time since the pre-Spurrier era. That is not good coaching. That's failure, and boring, depressing failure at that. At least fight James Franklin at the fifty when you're done losing to Vandy, Will, and thus give us something to cheer about." - OS

Honestly, I don't expect Weis to be back in Gainesville next year. Muschamp really can't fire the guy, but Weis has the career competence to look around and see that his QB situation isn't going to get much better (he's sampled the goods already). This is just a bad fit. The bad news...the Gators will be better off without him.

However, without Charlie's offensive reputation, there's the cold reality that the Gators' head coach is just a loudmouth ex-UGA player who is now 0-5 in Jacksonville.

And by the way ... going for it on 4th and 19 is an absolutely, positively stupid call. It doesn't matter that it worked. It's still such a galactically stupid call as to bring your entire thought process into question. Assuming there was a thought process to begin with.

See Also:
-- "If Weis is a Genius, then Addazzio was a Mastermind." - Orlando Sentinel


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