11-17-2021, 06:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2021, 06:21 PM by Sam Leopold.)
Lottich has done some promising things with Valparaiso. He had Valpo up 6 points in the second half over Bradley in the MVC tourney final in 2020, but the Braves came back and won, punching a token ticket to a tournament that didn't happen.
The first college basketball game I attended, both at Stanford and ever, was the Oregon State home game in 2002-03. Stanford was down big in the second half, and appeared on track for a catastrophic setback, and the crowd was quiet and restless, and then Matt Lottich caught fire, and the place went bananas. After the game I was going absolutely ape pellets on the concourse for a good 10 to 15 minutes, screaming all manner of inane gobbledegook. Lottich made this fan, of college basketball in general and Stanford in particular, that night with his improbable heroics.
Even amidst these doldrum days, that candle has stayed warm. If Lottich should do the improbable again only this time as the coach on the opposite sideline, it won't be enough to turn that candle off. But it would further dim.
The first college basketball game I attended, both at Stanford and ever, was the Oregon State home game in 2002-03. Stanford was down big in the second half, and appeared on track for a catastrophic setback, and the crowd was quiet and restless, and then Matt Lottich caught fire, and the place went bananas. After the game I was going absolutely ape pellets on the concourse for a good 10 to 15 minutes, screaming all manner of inane gobbledegook. Lottich made this fan, of college basketball in general and Stanford in particular, that night with his improbable heroics.
Even amidst these doldrum days, that candle has stayed warm. If Lottich should do the improbable again only this time as the coach on the opposite sideline, it won't be enough to turn that candle off. But it would further dim.
"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only dream forever." -- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)