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LSU purple stinks. UW purple or no purple at all. Stick with the black.

Purple sucks as a solid uni color unless they go with the UW purple color.

I agree that it will be ugly in the paint. My advice to Zeollner is use the fouls when needed. No stupid fouls and play good defense. Not looking for him to score but I am looking for stone hands to catch the ball when it hits between the numbers. Maybe the German has a little Irish in his blood lines somewhere and he will be the beneficiary. Go Great DAnes!!! 13203[/snapback] Albany will hang in for as long as their shooters are on fire. Zoellner does not figure into that equation. I almost start a small lineup -- Siggers at 4 and Wilson at 5, and run the UConn bigs up and down the court and shoot threes.

Calhoun's red nose should be a constant target as well. Guy's a jerk.

This was the response that I received. The addressee speaks for itself, although in his defense, he rushed to correct himself moments after hitting the send button. I suspect he is getting a lot of email today. >Hi Dave, > >Thanks for sharing your perspective. > >It was a humor column, pointing out there are a lot of UAlbany students >behind their team who until last Saturday weren't terribly cognizant they >had a team, and pleased though they may be it will take some time before >they're knowledgeable about their team. > >Throughout the past week many, many stories and two of my columns (Sunday's >and Monday's, which I urge you to read if you haven't) have reported on the >feel-good. I'd say we're running about 15 doses of feel-good to one tap on >the funny bone (whether it hit the mark is subjective, of course). > >The intent of this column wasn't to spoil the fun. > >It was to laugh at ourselves and have fun. > >Don't like my writing style, to each his own. Don't appreciate my humor, you >wouldn't be the first. But for goodness' sake, a sense of proportion please. > >Best, >Brian I beg to differ that his tone was humorous; if it was, in this Dane's opinion, he misses the mark by a longshot. The tome that did come through loud and clear was "enough with the ridiculous Albany hype, see, they don't know what they are talking about." I think that is a joke.

With all due respect, UCONN is no New Hampshire, Main, UMBC, Stony Brook or Bing. They shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence. There is no comparison! With that being said, we shouldn't just roll over. Let's give them hell! 13142[/snapback] Tell you what. UConn is just another team. Press em full court and hit your threes and you can give them a game. Make them run, they will be taken us for granted.

In my defense, and since dane96 recognizes me from the AE board, I would point out that I acknowledge the truth of his premise. I just didn't like a) his tone (mocking, as if we should all go back in the woodwork and don't deserve to root for the team) his lack of legwork to legitimately support his premise, c) the stupidity of his random questions that a UCLA fan could answer ("how many teams make the Final Four") -- he clearly started his poll with the opinion that we are all stupid and frontrunners, and did just enough selective work to sort of prove his point, d) the timing of the decision to write on this when it should be a time for the local paper to do features on the team in their proud moment. Like I said, I acknowledged the truth of it. "which, while perhaps being on-pointhad such a disturbingly negative tone and was supported by such ridiculous premises (I will ignore the amateurish one-line paragraph so prevalent in your writing style) that I felt compelled to respond" being one example. EDIT -- stupid smilies for