There was a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal (www.jsonline.com) article this week that mentioned the UWM Champagne Debaucle.
First, the reason I involve you folks in this reaction. Since being in Athens, the term "debaucle" conjures up images of Redcoats vs. The Landing in 1999, and of the fall-out from said incident. Though I didn't experience the "Florida Debaucle" first-hand, when I came off the turnip truck from SC to the Classic City, believe you me it was fresh on EVERYBODY'S mind!
The "UWM Champagne debaucle" was a report in the paper that members of the UWM basketball team were spraying each other with champagne in the locker room after winning the conference regular-season and (then) tournament titles. There was no documentation that under-aged team members were drinking, but were in possesion, and spraying each other and their coaches in the traditional way after a championship win.
Interestingly enough, the NCAA does not have any precedent of any such event. The closest and most recent incident involved the Illinois Women's team, who were rumored to have had alcohol while on a return flight back from the NCAA tournament (fucking losers!).
We are eager for Selection Sunday when we find out for sure that we're going some place lame (meaning a bus ride) like Indy or Cleveland. The best we can hope for is a first-round win in Cleveland, in order to buy time to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on our day off.
1 comment:
I think the *Debaucle* is kind of funny. But what I find amazing is that this has never happened before. Ever.
I think your coach has handled it appropriatly. But I think he acted this way to cover his ass.
If you beieve the NCAA commercials that students athletes are the only future for America (read between the lines, if you're not a student athlete; you are shit) then yes, you are going to be let down after this and any other situation where a college student acts like, well, a college student.
If you are going to hold them to higher standards and use their bodies to fill arenas and stadiums, then they should be paid for their services.
Oh Wait!!! They are!!! 4-6 years of college for free.
Then yes, they should be held to a higher standard.
But because athletes are *Paid* representatives they are also very visible representatives. It's time that the thugs, hoodlums, and idiots that roam through the ranks of the NCAA wake up and stop trying to bite that hand that feeds them.
"Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong."
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