Seriously, the UVA basketball “fans” out there whimpering about how their team is about to tank because they’re only winning games by a point or two without their second-best player are beyond getting on my nerves.
Note to y’all: Your team is 23-and-friggin-1 right now, 11-and-friggin-1 in the ACC.
Last I checked, Wake Forest and N.C. State (which beat #8 Louisville today, incidentally) are still offering young men who play basketball scholarships to lure them onto campus.
Which is to say, they’re trying, too.
Give ’em credit for giving UVA their best shot. That’s what they’re supposed to do.
You don’t get style points for winning by bigger margins.
You also don’t win national titles in February.
Oh, and only one team gets to win the national title each year. The other 350 aren’t failures as a result, except by the strictest definition.
Relax, and enjoy 23-1 (44-4 since Jan. 1, 2014; yeah, holy crap!). The best single-season start in UVA basketball history, and by far the best 48-game stretch in UVA history, not that you’d have noticed that, because the final scores haven’t been impressive enough for you.
I’ve watched a lot of BA-A-A-A-D basketball over the years to get to the place of having a 23-1 team to root for. Losing seasons, losses to Liberty and Seattle, the bad dream that was the CBI, more NIT games than anybody should have to count, more trips to the ACC Tournament with Virginia losing the first dadgum game than anybody should have to endure … 23-1 is damn awesome from my vantagepoint.
That is all. Back to your regularly scheduled kvetching, already in progress.
– Column by Chris Graham, who asks that you indulge him this personal, ahem, essay, since he’s a 1994 UVA grad, and bleeds orange and blue.
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