Shit. Ran out of booze. That's a wrap. I will see some of you in the basketball forum.
(later...) NOTICED you'd sorta "faded out" there towards the end, E-: Wasn't sure if you were still "around" or had bailed, for WHATEVER reason (God knows you weren't alone, if the latter--we ALL had good reason to do so).
Gotta feeling I may actually spend some time around the "Basketball Forum" this winter...This football season has left me both spent AND wanting MUCH more--of something much DIFFERENT, of course.
Thing is, I am a walking demo of how and why we are and will for eons to come be and be SEEN as a "FOOTBALL school", not a roundball one, no matter how well we recruit and/or Billy D. can establish us as a perennial B-ball power: I just can't get all that jazzed about the game in general or our place in the college-version (without the alma mater-connection I am even less, WAY less a fan or follower of the NBA) during the regular season...I monitor our general results, begin to follow more closely come the SEC tournament late-season, and only start to "get INTO it" come seeding-for-the-Tournament and the onset of "the Silly Season". Lotta reasons for it, some important ones having to do with the game itself, but fact still remains: Just isn't "my thing". I have friends from all over who've tried to console me during football season with news/observations about the success of other-sport Gator-squads, this season especially with what-they-expect-to-be my "excitement" at the success our basketball team is having now and (with news of recruiting "coups") can expect in the future, but (along with at various times the successes of our volleyball, men AND women's, baseball, and women's softball teams, etc.) these just don't even come CLOSE to ameliorating the pain I am feeling--indeed, almost ALL Gators are suffering--at our plunge past mediocrity into abject SUCKINESS. I'll try to find solace where I can--and basketball, as the high-profile sport that it is, may offer some...But on a certain level, it only reminds me of everything that hurts, all that I'll be trying to put OUT of my mind, or (that being unrealistic, even impossible) may only hinder efforts to put distance between me and IT.