Dukes for life, Villanova fans for a couple weeks!

Who to pull for in the Final Four of the FCS Playoffs this weekend?  This topic also gives me a chance to disclose early in our little blog’s existence some strange CAA bias and connections.

First off, too bad the Ticks Spiders couldn’t knock off the Evil Empire of FCS last weekend to put three CAA members in the semis, but choosing between UR or Appy is like an election between the toe-tapping-restroom-guy and the 90k-in-the-freezer-guy.  It does make for an easy choice in Saturday’s game.  To be honest, despite last year’s heartbreaking loss to Montana, I’ve got a semi-soft spot for the Grizz.  While I’m all for proving that alleged East Coast Bias in FCS rankings only exists because it’s true (which it is), the Montana program is outstanding!  In Chattanooga in ’04 the Montana fans were some of the warmest and most knowledgeable fans I’ve ever met.  Easy choice.

In tonight’s all-CAA matchup, I’ll be pulling for Villanova for a bunch of reasons:

1) happy wife is better than happy brother

2) Sheepishly I must admit that, except when JMU is involved, I’ve become a big ‘Nova basketball fan

3) Finally, the reason that would seem the most logical for Dukes fans everywhere, it just can’t be good for other schools in the state that we clearly recruit against to keep winning titles.

That said, it would be cool to have three champions from the Commonwealth’s CAA schools in the 2000’s and I think I’ll have to root for William & Mary (and the CAA) should they knock off ‘Nova.

For recreational purposes only, I’d be choosing App St. gettin’ 3 and Nova giving three and a hook though.

Lastly, the levels of comedy associated with both the need itself for W&M to choose a new mascot, and the search for said mascot are too deep to adequately cover as a mere sidenote.  But I would like to offer this lil’ nugget for your entertainment:  W&M Mascot Search

Really?!