National Champs, Baby!
Congratulations to our Lady Terps for winning the NCAA College Basketball National Championship!! Boy, that was some game last night. The win was perhaps the BEST possible EVER....we beat Duke! Any win will be very sweet, but beating Duke is something else.
It is quite ironic that nobody at Maryland cares (or, should I say cared until yesterday) about Women's basketball. In contrast, the men's team receives all attention. Getting game tickets for Men's game is next to impossible. And the pricing is also astrogalactic. On the other hand, for for the women's games - get this - they were giving out FREE tickets across the coffee shops on Campus. Nobody was taking them! I remember getting 4 tickets for one of the home games, and NO ONE was willing to go out and watch the ladies play!
I believe this win could not have come at a better time. At the time of going into the final four, the on-campus newspaper conducted a (unscientific) poll, in which only a couple of student could name atleast 3 female basket players! Going to the final four was a big deal. More and more people were paying attention to the ladies. And when we finally won last night, all hell broke lose. I have heard of violent riots...and I knew they were coming. I drove off of the campus, thankfully, before all the rowdy crowd gathered outside campus and started setting fires!
I have a message to these maniacs: hey, where the hell were you when the ladies were giving away free tickets? what were you doing when the Terps were playing AT HOME to a nearly empty stands? Before you set off the next fire, just because you saw the ladies win on TV, ask yourself if you were indeed supporting the team in the first place!
I understand that Duke is evil (atleast considered so here at Maryland). They have a very apt name for themselves - "The Devils". A championship should be celebrated with a responsible behavior, not by turning over the Campus Shuttles and setting things on fire!
Anyway,
My hearty congratulations to the Lady Terps once again! You rock!
It is quite ironic that nobody at Maryland cares (or, should I say cared until yesterday) about Women's basketball. In contrast, the men's team receives all attention. Getting game tickets for Men's game is next to impossible. And the pricing is also astrogalactic. On the other hand, for for the women's games - get this - they were giving out FREE tickets across the coffee shops on Campus. Nobody was taking them! I remember getting 4 tickets for one of the home games, and NO ONE was willing to go out and watch the ladies play!
I believe this win could not have come at a better time. At the time of going into the final four, the on-campus newspaper conducted a (unscientific) poll, in which only a couple of student could name atleast 3 female basket players! Going to the final four was a big deal. More and more people were paying attention to the ladies. And when we finally won last night, all hell broke lose. I have heard of violent riots...and I knew they were coming. I drove off of the campus, thankfully, before all the rowdy crowd gathered outside campus and started setting fires!
I have a message to these maniacs: hey, where the hell were you when the ladies were giving away free tickets? what were you doing when the Terps were playing AT HOME to a nearly empty stands? Before you set off the next fire, just because you saw the ladies win on TV, ask yourself if you were indeed supporting the team in the first place!
I understand that Duke is evil (atleast considered so here at Maryland). They have a very apt name for themselves - "The Devils". A championship should be celebrated with a responsible behavior, not by turning over the Campus Shuttles and setting things on fire!
Anyway,
My hearty congratulations to the Lady Terps once again! You rock!
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