"It's right and proper not to think of them as being similar to ordinary college students who are on campus to get an education........."

What percentage of the ordinary college students are there to get an education is a proposition for debate. I'd say lower than 100 but higher than 50. Somewhere in there.

One of Pitino's monster teams at Kentucky beat Crum and Louisville by 20. They were up 30 and called off the dogs. For the game Louisville was something like 20 for 40 for the line, and in the post-game show Crum kept using the free throw shooting excuse, and the Louisville fans repeated it for days.....Yeah right Denny, as long as Pitino takes out his stars with 10 minutes left, and if your team had gone 40-40 from the line then it would have been tied.....And of course no one mentions that UK missed 12 free throws in the game too.

About the common theory about the sub-par free throw teams being suspect to advance or win a big game for that reason. Announcers single out teams for this throughout the regular season as a chink in their tourney armor.

All teams have some stat that isn't that impressive. If that surfaces in a game combined with not doing well in a couple other stats that they are normally good in, then they are in trouble.

Even in a game that a team loses 75-70 in which they went 10-22 from the line it's faulty logic to just chalk the loss up to bad free throw shooting. The winning team could single out some team stat that they could have done better in too.

If you're talking about the one game situation where you have to make a couple one-plus-ones in the last 20 seconds to keep a lead, in that small a pool of reference, the 75 percent team and the 63 percent team are not very different. It's almost a crap shoot on what either would do.

They put up a chart in some game of the national champions for the last 10 years and their team FT percentage and most of them were not highly ranked free throw shooting teams. Some very low.

We could take a timeout for a couple weeks and have Hillary and Obama star in a remake of MANDINGO.

The funny, astute, asshole nomination.....I'd like to thank my parents and my.....

If it weren't for the Clintons Roe-Wade would already be toast.

You've supported and or voted for democratic losers the whole way. Other than Clinton victories which you sat out.

Some of this Obama crowd is...........If he wins the nomination come August they will be saying McCain needs to drop out now.

The church sold the videos.........Which makes Obama's tale all the more ridiculous.

Hillary is destroying the party, you don't go after a sitting President of your own party.

Can you imagine him with a failed first term (a whole bunch of love and hope and change has been promised) and Hillary coming after him in the primary of 2012?

I don't think he's doomed in a general. But black is a problem, as much as we might wish it wasn't. I imagine if he is the nominee the last few weeks of the campaigning is going to become nearly hysterical. A black guy is going to lose in Iraq.

Like congressional republicans are not going to use every device and tactic to try and block anything a President Obama tries to do.....They'll see what a good guy he is. He's going to bring the races together and the two political parties.

I'm sorry it's just infantile.

If you are saying if Obama loses the genral it's becuase HE was an inadeqaute candidate and nothing else, you are correct.

Again if no one gets 2025, and say Hillary wins Pennsylvania big and wins Indiana, Kentucky, and North Carolina behind it, with Obama falling in national polling simultaneously it may give pause to a superdelegate and to a pledged delegate from some mickey mouse caucus 3 months earlier.

Always wanting to change the rules gets old.

That is correct pledged delegates are not pledged in stone BY THE RULES...........If no one gets 2025, then BY THE RULES pledged and superdelegates should have freedom of action as re-votes take place at the convention.

THEY say they are not going to win. And it's Hillary's fault.

Prediction?

These Obama folks finding excuses for Obama losing 8 months in advance sure is inspiring.

Is going to be the TV conversation when Obama or Hillary can't pull the troops out.

HILLARY IS DESTROYING THE PARTY.

But as far as the Big East schooling the Big-12 5 games to none, they could replay those games tomorrow and it might go 4-1 or 5-0 Big-12.

Offered her the VP and she declined, that would piss me off.

Is both on the ticket either way. Then we lose or win together.

Wasn't brilliant. It was forced. And he needs to get off that stuff forced or not.

I repeat, if, Hillary wins Pennsylvania big, and then wins North Carolina, Indiana, and Kentucky the superdelegates have to look at it and consider, or they are nuts.

Needs to get back on top again. And do it despite Hillary fighting on. Don't whine about that. If he can't get back on a roll then all the regular right wing venom will linger on right up to election day. If he can get back on top, and then they start playing the Wright videos again, and Michelle's comments, and the no flag pin, a lot of people will say "Oh C'mon."

They may have started the frantic attacks too early this time.

One more "the party will be destroyed."

sveltri isn't one of the Obama people accusing the Clintons of being like the GOP..........Whitewater? Jesus.

If Obama is the nominee I'll vote for him.

You weep.