So many emotions going on right now. After a broken remote control, too many drinks to help me fall asleep and a morning under my belt, I need a post to get this off my chest. I'm officially over the hating ESPN and the national media. All that did for the past 6 months was distract me from one of the best seasons of any sport I have ever enjoyed. Villanova basketball and Villanova itself means as much to me as anything other than my family and I couldn't be prouder of both. Every Sunday morning I do work at Starbucks and at least three quarters of the time I sit wearing a Nova hoodie pounding away on my laptop. Inevitably at least one or two people come up to me who are alumni or whose children go or went there and we have an instant connection and talk about the team or the campus or whatever. I was there this morning wearing my usual hoodie and three other people came in wearing nova shirts. Every one of us made eye contact, gave a head nod, and without saying anything both knew that our program is above a bad loss the first weekend of the tournament. The season our team just had may be once in a life-time and while I knew it was special going through it, I could have enjoyed it more. That will be different next year and I already have lofty expectations for these guys again. There is no other team I would rather root for and there is no man I would rather have being the ambassador of my alma matre than Jay Wright. The guy makes men out of boys, represents all the values of Villanova and is someone I am proud to say I am at least somewhat associated with (even if it's just through my donation checks at this point until my 2 year old is old enough to hopefully attend). My freshmen year was his first at nova and what the program has become in these 14 years was unthinkable to the 19 year old me hoping to sneak into the tournament all those years. Or just somehow sneak out a win over the likes of Uconn of Syracuse or even St. Joes. The loss hurts, but the ride was better. And to top it off I got a notification that my Big East Championship shirt shipped yesterday and one thing you can be sure of, is I'll still be wearing it proudly next Sunday around town...
