The Marmot’s Hole

11 Comments

1. nachoinkorea
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 9:42 am | Permalink

   hehehe, I assume you are a Hoya fan or you went to Georgetown. I grew up in North Carolina. I remember watching Dell Curry (his father) play for the Charlotte Hornets. I have Davidson in the Elite 8 for my bracket. A lot of my buddies back home thought I was nuts, but they obviously have not seen Davidson play this season. These guys are for real!! They took both UNC and Duke to the wire earlier this year. How many teams can say that? I went to school at the University of Louisville and the University of Washington. UW sucked this year, but I’ve got my Cardinals in the Final Four!!!

2. mcnut
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 10:44 am | Permalink

   nothing like march for college basketball fans!!!!!!

   DUKE went out 2nd round!!!!!!
   thats awesome

   UNC is looking unstoppable at the right time of the year!!

3. Whatev
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 11:11 am | Permalink

   College basketball…never got how people could get so excited about that. Shouldn’t schools be about education?

4. Andy Jackson
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 11:29 am | Permalink

   It is nice to see an NC school other than Duke or Carolina do well.

5. boshintang
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 11:30 am | Permalink

   I’m with Whatev. I don’t want to talk about it.

6. John from Daejeon
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 12:52 pm | Permalink

   When does college football start up again? Judging by the ratings, I’m not the only one waiting.

   http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008.....r-cbs/3030

   Thursday night’s NCAA matchups averaged 8.45 million for the primetime portion, down ~20% from last year’s 10.48 million.

   Since the U.S. population is well over 300 million, that means less than 3% of the nation has caught the “madness.”

7. wjk, 검은 머리 외국인
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

   people watch march madness, because everyone has a shot, if you’re in the bracket, and lose one-go home-rules, means, you have to stay perfect.

   College football is fixed.

   First of all, your season is fixed by your schedule and your conference, made before you play. Then, there are polls. No playoffs. If your team is Idaho, you’re Idaho. Never in hell will you ever win the National Title. No way, even by math.

   One of the greatest mysteries to me as a human being, was wondering why America loves football, particularly college football (as I understand NFL popularity pales in comparison), so much, when the rules on who becomes champ is quite honestly the most non-objective is all of sports.

   and, it never will be objective. American PASS-ball is a game where you probably can’t play 2 games in 1 week.

8. cmm
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

   One of the beautiful aspects of life in Korea is being able to escape from the unnecessary hype of over-hyped college sports in the USA. Until this post, I think I’d luckily only seen one reference to the damn tournament.

   It’s also nice to be able to go down to the ballpark here in Korea, right before the game, get some nice box-seats, eat and drink your fill while enjoying a ballgame, all without getting wallet-raped. Plus, the chance of having to gA-rod and his overpaid sissy friends is basically zero. Damn Yankees. (Sorry Robert.)

9. Big Mike
   Posted March 24, 2008 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

   Your national champs: The Memphis Tigers! Next victim: Michiga State.

   You boys from Carolina better get ready for Tennessee before you start looking at the Fianl Four. Go Tigers!!

10. dogbert
    Posted March 24, 2008 at 9:45 pm | Permalink

    #1 Seed = UCLA

    Suck it.

11. SomeguyinKorea
    Posted March 24, 2008 at 11:35 pm | Permalink

    Do you hear Canadians going crazy about university hockey?