0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 9/13/2015
Brian Kelly said all the right things after Notre Dame barely got by Virginia on Saturday, but staying positive doesn’t magically makes things better. Situations don’t improve simply because someone might want them to. The Fighting Irish brought a pretty high set of expectations into the season, and the public also expected much of the […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 9/10/2015
Many times we want things to be true so badly that we ignore all the evidence which tells us otherwise. Rather than possibly pointing out the obvious, we instead shift blame to others, make excuses as to why there’s a shortcoming in that specific desirable area, or simply go into a state of full denial. […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 8/30/2015
I must have seen the movie a thousand times, but never before has Deep Impact made such an impacting impression on me. You know, this is the movie with Morgan Freeman as the president, Tea Leoni as the lowly reporter turned national news breaker, Elijah Wood as the amateur star-gazer turned unlikely hero and one of […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 8/21/2015
It is a tricky time of the year to be a college basketball fan. The sport seems so far away, yet so incredibly close that you can hear the student section roaring when Willie McDunkaroo scores the game-winning bucket against a rival. All this makes the general college basketball fan rather sad and, unfortunately, a […]
This man’s in a lot of trouble.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 7/8/2015
Reports have come out that Austin Nichols would like to transfer from Memphis. These reports are nothing new. College basketball players transfer from one school to another on the regular. So much so, in fact, that it is a somewhat accepted part of the college basketball offseason carousel. However, there are sometimes exceptions to what might first […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 6/8/2015
It feels like only yesterday since Iowa State had its basketball program turned upside down by the departure of Fred Hoiberg. After all, Hoiberg wasn’t the Mayor of Ames for no reason. Really, honestly, what Hoiberg did for the university was incredible. Between helping to put it on the map of being a national contender on a yearly basis, […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 6/1/2015
Fred Hoiberg is dead. Relax, not literally. I meant the figurative kind. The college basketball version of Fred Hoiberg, if you will. Or, more properly, the idea of what a coach like Fred Hoiberg can do to help make college basketball a better, more exciting, and supremely enjoyable product. No matter. The “Five Freds System” […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 5/25/2015
As the NBA draft inches closer, more and more weird things will happen to prospects’ stock levels. Some will drop because of notions that the NBA game has changed; others will rise for that same reason; and many people will abandon all reason for the sake of making uneducated declarations in the hopes of sounding […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 5/12/2015
We are all weak and imperfect beings. Regarding the biannual what’s wrong with college basketball columns: I swore there would be no caving on my end, and that I would not write any more than absolutely necessary, but it looks as though a trip to church to confess some sins might be in order. Here […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/30/2015
Billy Donovan is leaving the Florida Gators for the friendly confines of an ultra-talented NBA franchise. That’s great for Donovan, as well as people who view him as an upgrade over Scott Brooks, but only time will tell if that will work out for Oklahoma City. This leaves Florida in a tough spot. We are […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/23/2015
The Oklahoma City Thunder parted ways with Scott Brooks on Wednesday. Say what you will about him — because I have — but Brooks did do certain things well during his tenure with the franchise. After helping to develop players; building a foundation of success when the organization relocated; and taking the team to the Western […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/15/2015
Loyalty, honor, and other words that have nothing to do with specific subjects often times get thrown around them these days. We do so because, well, I am not too sure. Maybe it has something to do with our own ideas of how things should be. Or, really, it could simply be that it is far […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/13/2015
Critical mass has been reached in the realm of college basketball. Everyone and their respective mothers has an opinion. We have arrived at the time of the year when people tell other people when they are or are not making the right decisions for themselves as far as declaring early entry in the NBA Draft is […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/10/2015
We have reached a pivotal point in the college basketball season. It is the time of the year when some underclassmen forgo a few years of eligibility and declare for the NBA Draft. Because of that many of the teams we saw in the NCAA Tournament will look vastly different next season. It does make […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/9/2015
Sadly, the NCAA Tournament is over. Gone. Gone Baby Gone like that girl Morgan Freeman scooped up in that movie. That does not mean there’s no time left to discuss the fallout of the Big Dance. Not just who won it all, either. Rather, multiple aspects and angles which would go unnoticed or left untouched […]
