"What's Dru doing on a Gator Basketball thread?!!"
Even I'm gettin' excited 'bout Gator round-ball now...Normally don't even pay much attention 'til the SEC-tournament, leading up to "bracketology" and The Madness...Here in Austin that's always "South By" (SXSW) time, too, so (with the Film/Interactive-week up first and my professional interest there, as well as long-standing involvement with the Music portion) most years that's all STILL a "side spectacle" for me. Not so THIS season, obviously. We're still a football-school, and I'm (thoroughly) a "football guy" (soured on the pros, college ball and our Gators all the more important to me as a result), but this is one of those times when it's not just WHAT is happening, but HOW it's happening that's grabbed and is more and more holding my attention here: Something special appears to be growing. Being underestimated, under-reported and catching fire quietly at just the right time, this edition of "Donovan's Dream" is a defensive juggernaut that comes on late in games and just doesn't let up. I'm sure hardcore b-ball fans would consider me a "bandwagon-jumper", but even in the "back-to-back" years I didn't really get this into it 'till maybe the "Sweet Sixteen". Somethin' about this team, this year, the whole way this has developed, but I'm already all in.
