Novak must go, exclamation point

Ah, the fine art of pastiche. Well done.

a joke right?

Check?

it was definitely a purposeful elbow swing, which deserves more punishment than an ejection from a finished game. But, kicked out of the NCAA? Kicked out of whatever tournament UM gets into (NIT)?

That is a tad bit harsh to say the least.

your such a kidder...you are kidding ritht?

No sarcasm here... Could someone (perhaps the WLA who seems to be very good at this sort of thing) breakdown the difference between the Novak elbow and the Conboy takedown?

I get the difference between Novak and Tropp's hit, but cheap shot elbow to the front of the face vs. cheap shot sucker punch to the back of the head don't feel like a 1-game suspension vs. expulsion difference apart. Perhaps if a flagrant elbow to the face ended someone's basketball career, like Bertuzzi did to Steve Moore, we'd have a different feeling about it. Then again you can't get to someone's spinal cord through their nose. I may have just answered my own question but the disparity still seems out of whack to me.

I haven't seen the elbowing yet, and while I agree that some might have gone a little overboard about the punishment that the MSU hockey players deserved, you have to agree that these are two very different situations. Hitting someone in the neck with a hockey stick can paralyze them. An elbow to the face is a dirty move, and Novak should be suspended for a game for that (and Brian agrees, based on his postgame article) but you can't compare this to the hockey incident.

I don't think this is looking at the situation as a homer. I think Novak's elbow was dirty and stupid and he should be punished accordingly, but it's a completely different level of severity.

Except, the two incidents are not equivocal, so it doesn't really work.

I lol'ed

Zoltan wins MGo.

When you type out the word exclamation point, I think its safe to say that you arent 4 srs.

that's dumb. i'm going to go buy another pair of zubaz now.

Bravo.

That is the award you win today. You are on pace to win best diary about an elbow though.

"Hill was just playing a simple game, oblivious to the 100 MPH python that was about to slam into him."

Thank you for the wet monitor I am now looking at after spitting my Coke out.

I don't think the word python has ever been used in a sentence about Novak's arm.

I think it was an accident to tell you the truth. He apologized right after it happened and the announcers rights after told us he did. Novak in no way is a pig on the court as you claim. He is our hardest working player and you need to respect that it was either an accident or a mental lapse if it really wasn't an accident. Elbows are thrown all the time in college and in Pro bball a one game suspension is the norm. And in no way is this anywhere near the same as the MSU attempted murder on ice.

is appropriate punishment for Novak. I mean that kid who stomped on Budinger got only one game and it was far worse than Novak.

LISTEN, I'm not saying Novak SHOULD be suspended for AT LEAST 2 games, but I wouldn't be AGAINST it either! You have to RESPECT THE GAME when you are out there, and throwing around your pythons like WEAPONS is not only an affront to the GAME of basketball, BUT also an affront to your fellow man!

Is this a joke? You lose sleep over an athlete's elbow grazing another's jaw? He didn't even draw blood so clearly it wasn't going 100 mph. He should be punished, but for a whole season would be a joke. This stuff happens all the time, but others are a little more discreet about it than Novak.

"Hill was just playing a simple game, oblivious to the 100 MPH python that was about to slam into him."

Excellent work.

What do they teach at these schools today?

I can't find Sarcasm anywhere on U-M's course schedule. Not grad or undergrad or under-an-undergrad.

In my day, we had daily Sarcasm lessons, followed by two hours of Irony and when we got home, our daddies beat us until we were oxymorons.