Beverly Hills (MI) –- Okay, it’s been roughly 4 hours since the end of yet another disappointing Dayton/Xavier game. In that relatively short span of time, the MB has lit up with posts like UD during Christmas on Campus, except in a bad way, with the vast majority of them beyond negative. We’re talkin’ end of the world, Armageddon, ‘dogs living with cats’ kinda stuff, such as this:

“Buyout of BG’s contract”

“Let’s Bring in Anthony Grant”

“WANTED: Someone Who Can Shoot”

I’ve got 4 words for all of you Chicken Little, chicken sh*t, doomsday posters and they are neatly contained in a handy, all-purpose abbreviation:

STFU!

And no, it doesn’t stand for “Sure Thankful for Underwear.”

Let’s just say that you get your wish and the first 2 headlines do, indeed, come to pass: BG is bought out and Anthony Grant is brought in. If those first 2 things happen, so too will the third: UD will be looking for guys who can shoot, because the excellent shooters that BG has recruited -– Paul Williams, Chris Johnson and Luke Fabrizius –- are probably gonna be headed elsewhere.

Which take us right back to the “cupboard is bare” rebuilding mode that BG inherited from OP when he first got here. Is that really what you guys want?

As for BG going anywhere, I direct you to the following website:

www.itsnotgonnaf’inhappen.com

The Elder Swampette emailed me after the heartbreaking OT loss to LaSalle last Thursday, asking:

“How have you been a fan of this team for 40 years and not suffered a heart attack?”

Good question.

My response:

“I had 50 years of practice as a Red Sox fan, that’s how.”

Her response:

She got up early on Saturday and got her ass on the Megabus in Chicago for a 6 hour ride to Cincy, so she could hook up with her UD pals, sit in the next-to-the-last row in the UD Arena and cheer on the Flyers.

My favorite UD Pride MB thread in all this fire and brimstone: the one started by UD90 entitled “Booing after missed foul shots” in which he basically calls out UD fans for booing Andres after he missed his FTs:

“Let me first say I am as disappointed in the direction of our season as the next person, but if you booed when Sandoval missed his foul shot you are as low as the X fans who did it 2 years ago.

Do we have a right to be disgusted? Sure.

Do we have a right to sell our tickets? Sure.

But booing 18-22 year olds who were playing their hearts out is bush league.

I was embarrassed more by the fans who booed than our free throw percentage.”

Thank you, UD90, I’m right there with you. This incident made me glad that the X game was relegated to the television Siberia that is CSTV and not on ESPN, where someone might have actually witnessed it.

My least favorite post on the MB came courtesy of zmz723 in the “Xavier Game Thread”:

“Best part of the game: Harassing the X fans that were in the student section so much that they left during halftime.”

Thanks a pantload, zmz723 for providing X fans with still more ammunition in their expanding litany of supposed horror stories while attending games at the “Urine Dump” as they refer to our building on the Mustytears Madness MB. You should be really proud of yourself.

Trust me, I’m not happy about any of this BS. Like all of you, I’m still trying to figure out how it is possible for a team to go from being 14-1 and ranked #14 in the US to one that is in danger of not even making its own freakin’ conference tournament. But that doesn’t mean I’m giving up.

Despite rumors to the contrary, the sun is gonna come up tomorrow morning.

There are still games to be played and won.

Chris Wright will be back.

No, he won’t be Superman, but I’d settle for Willis Reed of the Knicks in the 1970 NBA Finals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySy5PK2CWKk

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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