http://www.caahoops.com Life As A Mid Major Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:17:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CAA fans knew it was going to go this way. We didn't know ODU would win, but we knew what the game would look like. Grindapalooza. Here's what stood out to me...in the first half ODU looked very similar to the Monarchs team that lost to Northern Iowa. They settled for ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/you-know-what-else-is-funny/ I've got nothing. Literally nothing. There is nothing I can write to add color to what tomorrow will bring. If you're reading this blog you are a college basketball fan. You are probably a mid major fan and specifically a CAA fan. You know all about ODU, Blaine Taylor, his mustache, ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/you-know-whats-funny/ Hofstra and Oooie Pooie own the airwaves tonight in the CIT, CBI, AFL-CIO, ETC or some other tournament. I don't say that to demean any of the CAA teams that played in either of the Payforplay Events. It's nice to see Your Team suit up one more time. I just think ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/of-pointless-alphabets-and-poor-planning/ Though we’ve set our clocks forward and dusted off the golf clubs, it’s going to snow heavily tomorrow. The storm begins around 12:20 eastern. This hit me last night as I was driving home, that the NCAA tournament is our version of a blizzard (not this one, though we do miss ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/a-winter-weather-advisory/ Apologies for the late, half-hearted effort over the past few days. The job that keeps the roof over my head took precedence. It always does, except for the five days of the CAA tournament. So anyway, I did an interview with a South Bend radio station this morning and went on ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/link-it-up/ Jose Ortega Gasset was a Spanish philosopher whose work frequently gets the yellow highlighter treatment in my house. Gasset provides us today's lesson: "The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, the here and now without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank." Is it worth it ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/eh-whatcha-gonna-do/ We know the major conferences are setting the policy, which means they get the lean when it comes to Selection Sunday. I've resigned myself to that fact, and so should you. Complaining is wasted emotion. That said, I would like for you to keep your ears open all weekend and Monday ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/we-know-how-this-goes/ Lots of good points in the comments, and let's try to address them. I've tried to quantify them all to keep this from becoming a raging inferno of random bullet points, so if I don't hit on an item you'd like to discuss, bring it back up. *** As for the whole ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/more-on-richmond/ Note--This is from one of the smart guys I speak to regularly, in response to my post yesterday about keeping the tournament in Richmond. These viewpoints belong to him and him only and as such I've left them unedited, except the parts where he quotes me. Those I set off ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/an-opposing-view/ The argument is as tired as it is silly. We hear it every March, and this year it began in December: move the CAA Tournament out of Richmond. That would be a stupid thing to do. Let’s get this unassailable fact out from the get-go: other than NCAA tournament credits, there is ... http://www.caahoops.com/2010/03/in-defense-of-richmond/