The BIAH Quotables

This a new feature we are trying out here at BIAH this season. Throughout the week, we are going to post some notable quotes or excerpts that show up in our google reader. Stupid people say stupid things 24 hours a day, and being somehow associated with the college hoops landscape does not preclude that fact. That said, we will not limit our quotables to the simple and idiotic, as the insightful and intelligent will also be highlighted. Feel free to pass along any quotables you stumble across to contactbiah@gmail.com or @ballinisahabit.


Kentucky coach John Calipari recognizes the significance of the UNC game this weekend. He is hoping it's not just a reality check:

These guys need to get punched in the nose and have a guy beat them upside down and decide if they are going to step up. It can’t just be John Wall. It has to be every single guy saying, ‘This is not happening, We are bringing it.'

Coach Cal realizes his team has a tough road a head of them, facing UNC and UConn in the next week:

We are not near those guys right now. I don’t think so. We are going to find out. You talk about a well coached team. They have McDonald’s All-Americans, a bunch of them. They play hard, they run hard. Their big men fly. If you jog up the floor and you are guarding a big man, you will get dunked on. They are as long, or longer, than us.

Saturday afternoon features a host of good televised sporting events. Mike DeCourcy explains the difference in importance of the Cinncy-Pitt football game and the UNC-Kentucky basketball game:

Defenders of the college football system consistently argue they have the most meaningful regular season in sports, and yet the Bearcats have a legitimate chance to finish a perfect regular season—and yet with no shot whatever at the national championship.

Meanwhile, UNC and UK will play an intensely competitive basketball game that will allow each one to build toward March's NCAA Tournament, where every qualified team will have a shot at the title.

The BCS Luddites ought to adopt this as their slogan: Every game matters, except when it doesn't.

Gary Parrish looks ahead to a big weekend of hoops. He says to keep an eye on the Nation's Capital for the weekend upset:

Close your eyes, now think of Villanova vs. Maryland in Washington, D.C. Can't you just see Greivis Vasquez going for 27 points? Can't you just see Gary Williams winning another game he probably shouldn't win? Doesn't this just feel like an upset waiting to happen? Will anybody really be surprised if the No. 3 Wildcats take their first loss Sunday at the Verizon Center?