Four players transferred: Audige (to Northwestern), fellow frosh LJ Owens (UMBC), grad transfer Justin Pierce (UNC), and Matt Milon (UCF). Pierce was a solid contributor in the ACC for the Tar Heels, and Audige was Northwestern's leading scorer in this his first year of post-W&M eligibility, scoring 12.3 ppg in mostly Big Ten action. Loewe graduated from W&M this Spring and transferred to Minnesota. So if you're paying attention, you'll note that the 2019-20 team might've had three Big Ten-quality players, a solid ACC contributor, an NBA-level conference POY in Nathan Knight, a terrific shooter off the bench in Milon, a versatile guard in Owens, and a couple of promising youngsters.
New coach Dane Fischer did an admirable job with the remnants of Shaver's program and a bounty of incoming transfers, winning 21 games before losing to Elon in the first round of the 2020 CAA Tournament. Careful observers will note that the 2020 squad bowed out at exactly the same point in the season as the 2019 team, Huge's arglebargle about "setting the bar high" notwithstanding.
So you've reached this point in this post, and you're thinking, "I've seen this movie before, and it ends with Rob pissing and moaning about something Wren-related". Not so fast my friends. This is not a post about how Samantha Huge fucked Tribe hoops (though she did). Instead, it's a question about what might have been and what other things compare.
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Pete Best's career comes to mind. Matthew Modine surely wishes he hadn't passed on the role of Maverickin Top Gun. Hillary Clinton wonders why she didn't campaign in Wisconsin (too fucking soon, man). IBM hired Bill Gates and his merry band of Microsoft engineers to build an operating system for $80,000, with the stipulation that MSFT retained the copyright. For what became DOS. Expensive mistake, that.
We'll close this post (while you offer better examples in the comments) with Dave's entry. If only Deco wasn't such an immature dope and Jimmy would've stopped shagging all the girls in the band. As John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, "For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."
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What if Terry Reid had been the Led Zeppelin front man instead of Plant?
What if Jerry Reid had been the front man
What if Laettner had been tossed out of the Kentucky game like he should have been.
that gawf course looks like it's playing hard.
I was noodling the notion of promise aborted more than alternate endings or 'what if ...' scenarios. Someone or something appears set up to succeed, but it fizzles, due to internal or external forces -- ego, stupidity, crappy management, bad timing.
I knocked around a little and came up with stuff such as Pets.com and Ask Jeeves, author Ralph Ellison, and the Yardbirds and Arrested Development. The latter three certainly made major contributions, but you sure would have thought their catalogs would be lengthy as well as meaty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-cpL--0AQA
Worst take ever by Marls. Laettner tapped Timberlake’s sorry ass on the chest. Laettner is a dick but no way does he deserve to be tossed from that game.
I agree with Mark that Laettner's a dick
If the Red Sox win the World Series in 1986, is rob now President?
harper lee, perhaps?
Speaking of Roberto, the Mets won today on an HBP walk-off that was a lean-into-it job like he used to pull on the wiffle ball field.
art form
Worst take ever? It’s probably not even my worst take today.
Hi g's
Marls takes a lot.
Danimal!
Rob, I considered Harper Lee, but her one-and-done is so outsized and enduring, it sort of eclipses my admittedly fluid criteria of set up to succeed and don't, for whatever reason. If you only have one in you, and *that's* the one, then Salute.
If Coppola's career fizzled after making The Conversation, that would qualify. Maybe better examples are Robert Johnson (I defer to Scott on this one) and John Kennedy Toole and Confederacy of Dunces. Perhaps Emily Bronte, though Victorian literature ain't my jam.
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i was thinking about toole, as well.
I've yet to get into Confederacy of Dunces. Have started it a couple times, but just get annoyed and lose interest. How hard should I try on my next attempt?
To OBX Dave's point, I think Robert Johnson would have had to start playing modern electric blues just like everyone else. He innovated the country blues right up that that point, and while his evolution would have been interesting, I'd be even more interested to see the directions that someone like Jimi Hendrix or Duane Allman would have taken if they'd lived.
pour some out for DMX
I have had the exact same multi failure on Confederacy of Dunces as Rootsy.
Bummer about DMX. Apparently there was a short lived reality show about him years ago that can't be found online. Two of my bandmates were recalling spending a hungover new year's day watching a marathon of it on VH1.
And I think I've posted this here before, but I'm reupping : DMX on a BMX .
rootsy, thanks for the reminder on that clip. have now added it (with credit given) to my DMX tweet binge
Mark Fidrych, JD Salinger, Terence Trent d’Arby, Mark Hamill, Alicia Silverstone, the Stone Roses. And The Clash.
You should read Confederacy of Dunces. I can't think of a reason why anyone here wouldn't like it.
My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel. Yes, they had more than one album but if Salinger gets the nod (and he should, I was going to name him) despite his short story collections then they should too.
In other news, last night zkids decided to make an omnibus bullshit call on all the mythical creatures who leave stuff for them while they sleep. They laughed at zwoman and me as we backpedaled. "Jesus Dad, you and Santa use the same wrapping paper? Really?" exclaimed zson. "Why would a bunny bring eggs in a basket? And why are they in the same basket from the back of the closet?" inquired zdaughter. I for one am grateful for this reprieve.
An Amateur in the Masters, his surname is Strafaci. Backwards that’s
I C A Farts. Just so you think of that when you see his name from now on.
that way that was phrased, i thought for a minute it was a dmx tribute.
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