Minute 1: Surprise! Surprise! It’s Heather Catlin bringing us the Seminoles’ show, and it is a Fox Sports Atlantic production. She then throws it over to … Tom Block?? Okay, this is really weird.
Minute 3: The Florida State Seminoles upcoming season is described as featuring “several marquee matchups against tough opponents.” Then, the graphic of some of these tough contests is displayed. You know, just the usual suspects of tough opponents like Jacksonville … and Stetson.
There was another comment that caught my attention. FSU will host their games at the Tucker Center. Please bow your heads in a moment of silence for the passing of the best arena name in the ACC. It seems as though FSU’s home venue is no longer called the Leon County Civic Center. That's a shame, because that name always made me think of the actor who went by the single name of Leon. This always led to three random thoughts:
1. Leon felt he was important enough to have a singular name. Although upon looking at his IMDB page, Iforgot that he was the saint in the Like a Prayer video. So, maybe this is Madonna's influence.
2. The opening scene in Above the Rim. Leon is playing a pickup game with his little brother. Did I mention they are playing on top of a building? Did I mention the hoop is about three feet in front of a plate glass window? Did I mention that Leon bets his little brother that he cannot touch the backboard? Did I also mention that Leon’s little brother subsequently runs toward the hoop, jumps, and continues right through the plate glass window, falling to his death? While this gives Leon the checkered past he needs for us to sufficiently root for him in the movie; there is a lesson to be learned here kids: Don’t try to dunk on top of ten story buildings when the distance between the hoop and the edge of the building is shorter than Mugsy Bogues.
3. Leon was one of the bobsledders in Cool Runnings. Anytime I get to think of the movie Cool Runnings starring the late, great John Candy, well, I consider that to be a good day.
Minute 4: The ACC tournament is March 12 this year, only 113 days to the greatest tournament of any kind in any sport. Should a 32 year old man be this excited over 11 basketball games in four days?
Minute 7: Keith Jones is doing the interview, and now I just don’t know what to think. We have Heather Catlin, but no Jenn Hildreth or Ray Goodrich.
Minute 9: Leonard Hamilton cements himself as the most boring coach in the ACC. That sound you just heard for the last two minutes was me smacking my head with the remote
Minute 10:
Keith – “What’s the one thing you want?”
Leonard Hamilton– “I want two things: health and [for the team] to realize its fullest potential.”
Good thing Hamilton didn’t want little pesky things like winning, or making FSU’s first NCAA appearance since 1998. I think some dreams would have been dashed had he reached for those stars.
Minute 11: Well, the Hamilton interview is over, and there’s four minutes I’ll never get back.
Minute 15: There is a nice profile on Solomon Alabi and Uche Echefu. Both players hail from Nigeria originally, and the profile is a good one about how they have bonded so well. I like it, because I could hear the name Uche Echefu on a 3 hour loop and not get tired of it, especially the way my friend Rob yells the name, “Echefu!” in excitement when he scores in the ACC tourney (only 113 days away).
Minute 18: An interview with Toney Douglas commences, and that means two things: 1. It is apparent that they are not doing the All ACC preview team, and 2. It’s man crush time!
Man, I love the point guards. Toney Douglas is a no-brainer for my FSU man crush. I’m not even going to allow his complete lack of command of English grammar deter me from liking this guy.
Minute 19: For the second time during the show, we hear senior Brian Hoff’s comments about his fellow players. I’m not sure if it was his 108 total minutes played in three years or his 1+ point per game scoring average that got him the gig of team narrator. Maybe I should run a poll question or something.
Minute 28: Keith Jones and Tom Block wrap up the Seminoles’ 2008 outlook whichconcludes what has been the weirdest preview show yet. Below is a recap:
- It’s a Florida school in which the production was done by Fox Sports Atlantic.
- Heather Catlin is the only person that has made an appearance in any prior preview show.
- Even though it was a Fox Sports Atlantic production, they did not have the All-ACC preview team.
- Keith Jones finished his comments by calling Uche Echefu, “Uch” (pronounced oooch) This makes it official. Uche Echefu is the greatest college basketball name since Exree Hipp.
I love the ACC.
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