Well, that's about as easy as it gets!

Dear Blogfan,

You know I never like to take a win for granted. I mean, everyone knows the old "on any given Sunday" mantra; any team can go unconscious and hit everything they throw up on almost any occasion and, at the same time, the other team can go arctic frigid and not be able to make the simplest lay-up.

I know.....I know!

Well, that didn't happen last night! The team we played last night came into our game with the same record we had....if you're dyslexic! We came in 5-0 and they came in without a win; 0-5.

We left 6-0 and they kept their perfect streak alive as well!

I may have seen more inept teams at this level, but I can't remember when. They simply could not get the ball across half-court on us! The score at halftime was 30 to nothing! At the half, the other coach asked if we could run the clock during the second half. I said "sure, why not?" I subbed out all of my starters and played only 3nd and 3rd string guys the entire second half. With those conditions, we only scored 12 more points for a total of 42.

They scored 6!

Not 6 in the 3rd quarter, or 6 in the 4th quarter, or 6 in the first minute and a half of the third.....

6

TOTAL!!!

I felt sorry for them! Having been in their shoes more than I'd care to mention over the years, I did everything I could to keep it from becoming an embarrassment, but, short of simply stalling the entire second half, I don't know what else I could've done to keep the margin any less than I did.

I hope karma pays me back in the end!

The other battle I've been facing has come to an end very much in our favor! At this point last week, I had about 15 guys failing one or more classes and they were going to become ineligible as of a week from this coming Thursday. That would force them to miss their end-of-season tournament and their last regular-season game. Fortunately, their efforts in tutoring (and my size 12 up their backside) paid off. NOW, with grades final as of this afternoon, only 4 guys are being lost to grades! Woo-hoo! AND (and this is a big "and"), only one of those is an "A" team guy!

In the immortal words of the Taco Bell guy, we're "good to go!"

Now, if we can avoid getting the "big head!"

We'll see!