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Don Quixote · 03-31-2009, 10:06 PM

Well, I only dated myself because no one else would; it's been a long time...

It's interesting what you said about "the guys only went to class maybe the last day". I was a TA for about 7 years at UConn, teaching two classes a semester, with about 25-30 students per class, in a college where they had a 4-semester language requirement. Somehow, I only had one "student-athlete" ever in my Spanish classes. I suspect the whole "student-athlete" thing is about 1 part student and 19 parts athlete.

I stick to my predictions about the men. They should beat M. State (God, I hope so; my wife's family is from Michigan) because they match up well, but could get into trouble if Thabeet gets in early foul trouble as he sometimes does, and Price has an off night (if you'll notice, he's been scoring OK, but not shooting well, and gets a bunch of points off of free throws; M. State is too disciplined to foul him that much, I think). That's where Dyson would have been useful--another scorer when one of the other ones has an off night. I know that it's easy to say that (what's his name? senior moment-the fast freshman who had 23 points last game) will be that scorer, but look at what happened in the women's game tonight. You had Tiffany Hayes, who scored 28 in the last game, dribble every ball off her foot, miss every shot, throw every pass away, and foul out early in the second half. "Can't depend on love"--and can't depend on freshmen in the tournament.

03-31-2009, 10:06 PM	#4
Don Quixote Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Springfield, MA 01109 Posts: 309	Re: NCAA final 4!!! Huskies!!! Well, I only dated myself because no one else would; it's been a long time... It's interesting what you said about "the guys only went to class maybe the last day". I was a TA for about 7 years at UConn, teaching two classes a semester, with about 25-30 students per class, in a college where they had a 4-semester language requirement. Somehow, I only had one "student-athlete" ever in my Spanish classes. I suspect the whole "student-athlete" thing is about 1 part student and 19 parts athlete. I stick to my predictions about the men. They should beat M. State (God, I hope so; my wife's family is from Michigan) because they match up well, but could get into trouble if Thabeet gets in early foul trouble as he sometimes does, and Price has an off night (if you'll notice, he's been scoring OK, but not shooting well, and gets a bunch of points off of free throws; M. State is too disciplined to foul him that much, I think). That's where Dyson would have been useful--another scorer when one of the other ones has an off night. I know that it's easy to say that (what's his name? senior moment-the fast freshman who had 23 points last game) will be that scorer, but look at what happened in the women's game tonight. You had Tiffany Hayes, who scored 28 in the last game, dribble every ball off her foot, miss every shot, throw every pass away, and foul out early in the second half. "Can't depend on love"--and can't depend on freshmen in the tournament.