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Just want to share my favorite poem that resonates with how I'm feeling about this team:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

VU Luminaries in Houston

I know of the VUSports.com Legends that were in Houston, but what high profile Villanova alums, friends of the program and fans were in Houston this weekend (from sport, media, business, industry, academia, etc):

I know of:
Rollie, '85 team, Davis Bros., Tim Thomas, Kyle Lowry, Kerry Kittles, Jill Biden and others but who else?

Howie Long?
Marty Liquori?
Nneena Lynch?
George Raveling?
Kacie McDonnell?
John Drosdick?
Chirs Geysens?
Terry O'Toole?
Admiral John Fallon?

(sorry if some of these have been mentioned in other threads)
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Georgetown

know were basking in the glory of the nice win but some sort of funny news out of Georgetown...

They just landed a 25 year old 5 ft 10 PG who was in the army the past few years. In 2010, this kid was going to walk on at NC A&T but either decided against it or didn't make the team.

It's also unsure if this is just a walk on, but the Georgetown board seems to think he'll be a scholarship player.

Nothing against the probable fine young man but if this is Georgetown's answer at the guard position, they may have a bigger problem.

Five Best Title Games of the 64 Game Era

Ted Keith over at Sports Illustrated gives a thumbnail narrative of those five games here (link also below). Interesting though I am not sure he realized it -- each features at least one Big East team.

http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2016/04/08/ncaa-tournament-championship-game-best-villanova-unc

Hopefully the UNC crowd won't see the article, they might think it is a conspiracy and petition to have it rewritten...with a different ending.

Final Play - Ringtones

I've created an audio file from the TBS Broadcast, the International Broadcast and Fannon's final call and turned each into a ringtone for myself. If you want a copy of the files, I've linked them below:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByRP0tqlJMwGSHNNS0tvTmhnZGs

If you have an iPhone, I've added instructions below for how to turn these files into ringtones. If you have an android, you should be able to just copy any of the files to your phone and set it as your ringtone.

http://lifehacker.com/5848406/how-t...-ringtone-for-your-iphone-or-android-for-free

On an optimistic note...

...what programs are more poised for success than Villanova over the next ten years?

K, Boeheim, Roy, and Pitino are all set to retire any day now.

The Big East has proven itself as good as any other league with winning records against every conference of note. Every home and league game is on national TV.

We've got at least four contributors (and likely 6) out of eight on a national championship squad coming back, and a top recruiting class coming in.

Michigan State has a great thing going. So does Arizona, and certainly one of the bluebloods I mentioned above will find a suitable successor, but honestly who is as well-positioned over the next decade as we are?

11 changes that led to our...

...National Championship, imho...most from mid-season on...

1. Jenkins development
2. Reynolds development when Danny went down
3. Booth finally finding his groove
4. Jay deciding to develop a zone this year
5. Jay taking his x and o's to a new level
6. Mikal coming on as a force
7. Arch and Danny elevating their game to new levels and leading
8. Jay changing the way he handled business at the Final Four
9. D to a new level
10. Shooting finally meeting/exceeding the norm
11. A relatively healthy Danny giving us 32 minutes in the championship game

Nova Gear???

A few days ago someone posted two places where we could order Nova National Championship gear online at discounted prices-----but with the large volume of posts these past 4 days I cant seem to find it.
Can someone please re-post that info for me and others who might be interested? Thx.
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