March Madness Grab Bag (In April)

Before the college basketball season is over, and before this blog comes to an end, we need to discuss a few things my friends.

• Did every one see former Marquette coach Tom Crean (above) at the press conference where accepted the head coaching position at Indiana? Talk about fake-and-bake. Has anyone over the age of 40 EVER been more shamelessly (fake) tan than Crean? (not including George Hamilton, of course) Check out the photo gallery from the press conference. I believe that Coach Crean actually becomes more tan as the conference goes on. On a related note...I apologize for saying that Jay Wright might fake-and-bake. I have no proof of that. Although I do think he may bronze himself now and then.
• What's creepy about this article on Billy Packer isn't that he's unsure of how many more Final Four's he'll announce with CBS...it's a toss-up between the fact that he approached 123 women (seemingly without reason) and the fact that he asked these 123 women if they would vote for Hillary Clinton. Read that paragraph, then please, read it again. "He randomly approached 123 women recently - without introducing himself". Wow. That's funny and cring-worthy for about 50 reasons. Not the least of which is the idea that it would somehow matter if Billy Packer told a random women that he was, in fact, Billy Packer. MR. PACKER...PLEASE...FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND NOBLE...STOP APPROACHING RANDOM WOMEN AND STOP ANNOUNCING COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAMES!
• I never found a place to work in this editorial about the NCAA Tournament and office pools, so I'm cramming it in here now. Morrissey defends the point I had very early on in this blog that the NCAA Tournament is communal, it's our national get-together. People who normally don't have any involvement with sports or each other, can fill out a bracket and chip in 5 dollars that makes them part of a collective madness. I still say that March Madness is (overall) bigger and more transcendent than the Super Bowl, as more people are personally involved with March Madness (through identifying with a college or university and by filling out a bracket) than are personally involved with the Super Bowl.
• Who would win the Fashionable 4 with these four coaches left in the bracket? Annie...I'm looking forward to your thoughts on this one. After literally minutes of research...here is how I think these coaches would finish with regard to fashion sense and overall style: 1) John Calipari, 2) Roy Williams, 3) Bill Self (could have been #2, but he gets his suits dirty after constantly dropping to the court during close games), 4) Ben Howland (yikes!).
• The Good Guys Don't Always Win, It Was Cool Hanging With The White Lobster, & Stephen Curry going on the Conan O'Brien show.
  

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Dapper Coaches! - We Had This Theory First!!!

Matt and Phil! Check out this column that breaks down the Tournament based on the appearance and fashion sense of the various coaches. Absolutely creepy. I knew we were on to something here. The whole "Best-Dressed Coach" thing really needs to be turned into a column on this blog now. And I have to eat some crow here because I hated on Jay Wright. I've done a little research and fully admit my mistake. This article has Jay Wright and Villanova defeating Bob Huggins and West Virginia in the National Championship. This creates an interesting dilemma Matt as we basically all agree that those two coaches are on different planets with regard to appearance and fashion sense. This blog just gets better every day.