Hey Packer, Brick You're gonna have to work!!!

Heres a notice to the JT the Hick's....er Brick. Mike Celzic's Billy Packer's and all of the so-called experts that are now whining that there are no good stories now that the remaining three #1 seeds got bounced in the Elite Eight over the weekend. With apologies to Rupaul
You're gonna have to work!
Indy is a great city to be in for a final four or any NCAA tourney game for that matter. I've been in '97 and 2000 as well as the Cincinnati-Kentucky tourney game last March and no city puts on a better show. There is much to see and do and you can have a boatload of fun. That said, these hacks will have to do some research and work on teams that are well deserving but under the national radar. No pity-party oh we're really not that good though we've won 30 games Jim Calhoun, No wine and cheese North Carolina, No Duke, No east coast big timers. Just Four teams that have defied odds and expectations. You have UCLA, who I think is the most underrated major conference winner. Is the most well known of the four with their tradition born from the Wooden years....but that was 30 years ago. Actually 31 since John Wooden coached his last game, beating Kentucky in San Diego for his 10th title. The Bruins have had a number of coaches try to fill his huge coaching shoes. Only Jim Harrick took the '95 team to the title, but that was better than a decade ago. This is a team that is unheralded, but can beat you so many ways. Jordan Farmar has carried this team with heroic play and I'm not surprised to see Ben Howland take this team deep, he is a great coach.
Then there is LSU, led by man-child Glenn "Big Baby' Davis who is charming his way into cult status. John Brady may finally get out of the serious shadow cast by former longtime LSU coach Dale Brown. This team is young and unawed by their deep run.
Then consider Florida. Billy "The Kid" Donovan finally proved that his coaching is no fluke, which many pundits said him getting to the Final Four in 2000 was. The Gators are a roughhouse bunch. Joakim Noah has a nice touch around the basket and the Gators will run you ragged if you're not careful.
And then finally there is George Mason. No one in the right mind picked this team to get any further than Dayton. For the record I had them beating Michigan State. But come to think of it, they had a perfect storm happen. They beat a vastly overrated Michigan State team, beat a UNC team whose youth finally caught up to them, a good Wichita State team that was as much a Cinderella and shocked tourney fave UConn. The Patriots are a talented team coming together at the right time. These are some of the facts, which is more than the hacks had before. Most of these hacks are just learning that George Mason is a school barely 40 years old and is in Fairfax, VA just outside Washington, DC. Many hacks still think Dale Brown coaches LSU and that Steve Lavin coaches UCLA. In other words as JT the Brick whined in his column late Sunday night "All the stories are dead". This outlines the laziness of the sports writers. They want everything their way, a sexy matchup, a warm weather climate a clearly defined good guy and bad guy, so they can speed type their stories and fill in the blank with who won and lost. After that its hit the bar and be lazy.
You're gonna have to work!!!
I've always dreamed of being a sportswriter or radio talk show host, to be courtside and soaking up the atmosphere and then relating my views on a game to the public. I've resisted falling into the trap that the uninformed to, the big teams are easy to cover. The bigger teams have extensive coverage and are on TV ad infinitum. The smaller schools may be on TV a couple times a year. I'm referring to national TV, (ie CBS, ESPN) You wouldn't dare see Billy Packer covering a Wichita State-George Mason game. He might be forced to do some research on the teams and not be able to schooze and suck up to the power brokers of the bigger schools (heaven forbid) The pundits have no JJ Reddick or Adam Morrison to fawn over. Which I know drives the sports pundits crazy. Morrison and Gonzaga must be fuming now cause they aren't considered a mid-major cinderella anymore, rather a the big dog in a small conference. Quick, tell me what conference Gonzaga is in and three teams in that conference. I'll turn off Nantz and Packer (I've always liked the witty and concise Nantz) and listen to Kevin Harlan and John Thompson on the radio call. I think they'll be a little less disparaging. By the way Gonzaga is in the West Coast Conference where such heavyweights like University of San Diego (Not to be confused with San Diego State from the WAC), Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount and San Francisco
Now it seems that folks are beefing because teams are playing defense and scores are low. Wasn't it not too long ago that teams playing run and gun were considered playground style and bad for the game. "Where is the defense and the team concept." and "Its too much individual." Now that teams are doing this on the pro and college level where the trends trickle down to. Now the pundits whine that this boring and there is no flash and that the game on the floor is a brawl. Hey goober, you can't both ways. You want defense and cry that the game is too wide open, when the d tightens you whine that the game is no fun to watch. Appreciate the game for what it is and quitcha bellyachin'!
There are just four left, the show climaxes in Indy. I can't wait.