Shall we Reassess?

A little over a month ago I took a look at Syracuse's NCAA Tournament resume and came to an optimistic conclusion that Syracuse had a pretty good chance at making the NCAA Tournament even though they were playing mediocre basketball.

After Syracuse's devastating collapse to Pittsburgh today the Orange have loss three in a row, their RPI tomorrow will be somewhere around 60 and they have just 17 wins and a 7-9 record in the Big East with only one signature win, which seems like months ago against Georgetown.

The only way they make the tournament is if they win out the rest of the regular season (at Seton Hall, and home against Marquette) and win one game in the Big East Tournament (likely against West Virginia or Pittsburgh). That would give them 20 wins, a .500 conference record, three wins vs. the top 50, and a top ten Strength of Schedule. They could be a surprise in a la Stanford last year.

That's probably not going to happen as this was Syracuse's best performance of the year for 36 and a half minutes. It's hard to see a young team coming back and salvaging this season.

While Don'te Green's European style game (good length, outside shot, no toughness) had NBA Draftniks putting him in the lottery as recently as last month, that talk has seemed to cool down and I think a "Don'te Leave" T-Shirt and a good talk with Jim Boeheim (hint: It would start with "Carmelo Anthony was a friend of mine...") should return him to a team that could be loaded next year.

Actually they will be loaded, they will just have to overcome the tendency to disappoint that Syracuse has come to exemplify over the past five years.

SNL

It is usual practice for me to forego going out socially during the winter except for special occasions so that I can save money to go out more often during the spring and summer when the weather is better and women can dress hotter.

So instead of looking for the next Mrs. Lynch (and hoping she's drunk) I stayed in and watched an episode of Saturday Night Live. This episode was the first new episode of any series that I know of since the end to the three month long Writer's Strike. Some have said that SNL's writers have been on strike for ten years now with regular skits and returning characters that wouldn't have made the notoriously grating 12:30-1:00 slot in the early 90's the show's heyday to our generation. Still they attempt political humor.

This is the most accurate depiction of the media's relationship with Barack Obama I've seen yet. It also exposes a major flaw in Obama's candidacy, that there is no one currently in place to accurately play him on 'SNL' if I was a tall half Black comedian, Lorne Michaels would have my head shot already...



Mike Huckabee made a cameo appearance in an attempt to increase his likability and profile for future Presidential campaigns by poking fun at his own lame duck candidacy this year...



Of course there may have been one other reason for me to stay in and watch 'SNL' perhaps my desire to come back in a second life as the microphone in this clip...

Good thing it was a Knee

I thought my run at making sophomoric De'Cody Fagg jokes was over until today, when Fagg Blew Out his Knee at the NFL Combine. The injury occured during a combine drill where receivers had to grab the ball while keeping both legs in bounds. Fagg's stock was going down during the draft process he is still projected to go in the 7th round to the Packers.