Out of the Loop

I'll get this started by saying that the DePaul vs. Dayton game in the first round of the NCAA tournament was the most atrocious display of basketball ever.  It sickened me to know that I called Dayton home for 4 years.  Congrats to DePaul but in my opinion, no matter who won the game should have immediately removed themselves from subsequent tournament play.  I have seen many high school games that were more exciting than this one, in fact, I think elementary school intramural teams could have hit more free throws and made less stupid mistakes.  For two years in a row the Dayton Flyers have had my bracket grab its ankles and bite the pillow.  In the coming years I will not subject myself to such disappointment, and refuse to pick Dayton ever again.  Suck.

Also, I'm sorry to all of my friends who picked Dayton because they had friends that went there or perhaps had a good time on a visit to UD.  I trust you have learned from your mistakes and will move on.

A Dayton fan no more.

-schrags

I'll post the contents of a great article below...

--DePaul-Dayton a classic—if you didn't watch it--

By: Mike Downey

Downey's Eleven:

BUFFALO—Part of me wants to call it one of the great DePaul games of all time.

NCAA tournament. Double overtime. A captive TV audience. An old-school rival (Dayton). A season-saving, 28-point pop by a Blue Demon (Drake Diener). Neither side up by more than seven points in 50 minutes.

It ended so late, the only guy awake outside Buffalo's arena was the one who turns Niagara Falls on and off.

And the ending was a happy one. DePaul prevailed for its first NCAA tourney victory since 1989. That means Dave Leitao has a Saturday date with Connecticut, where he was on the coaching staff for 14 years.

Great stuff, right?

So great, I almost wish I hadn't seen it.

DePaul's Andre Brown, 0-for-10 at the line. (Now you know why they call it a charity stripe.) Quemont Greer, 3-for-15 from the floor. Delonte Holland, 5-for-17. A pass by a Blue Demon with

4/10ths of a second on the clock, thrown so high … it hit the overhead scoreboard!

Dayton's Ramod Marshall missed 17 shots. The Flyers missed 17 three-pointers. On the last shot of the first overtime, Monty Scott fired from the corner to win the game … and put up an airball.

"Well," Leitao said, a little sheepishly, "it doesn't have to be an artistic success."

Coach, you convinced me.

Call it a second Picasso for Chicago, if you like. A masterpiece. Save a rave for Holland's 14 rebounds, for Greer's great board with DePaul down 54-52 and for clutch Chris Exilus free throws in the final 20 seconds to wrap things up.

"It was more like the Saturday Night Fights [than basketball]," Leitao said. "It was blow for blow, body punch for body punch."

The Scuffle in Buffalo.

And DePaul is still standing.

I agree Dayton blows. From now on I will never support anything at Dayton again, other than drinking. I knew freshman year when I got there, that it was a special place when students didn't go to the Homecoming football game because they were busy drinking, and now I know, that the Dayton Flyer is not an athlete of any kind, he is a pilot that drinks all day and all night, and doesn't care about football, basketball, and certainly not baseball. And so I shall be a Dayton Flyer, the true definition, and proud.


You can't take drinking away from us,
Klimas