"We'll there's always next year." I remember saying those exact words on the 21st of January 2006. The Beavers had just lost 4 in a row to conference foes Loras, Luther, Wartburg, and Dubuque. I have to admit, from that point forward; I think I spent more time on the Iowa Department of Transportation homepage than the BVU website.
However, as I have come to find out, there is only so much a person can learn about a team on the internet. You look at the boxscore after a game. You see the stats and think that you can narrow down exactly what went right or wrong. Well the Beavers just got beat on the boards, or they just had too many turnovers. Yet, there is one attribute that doesn't show up on any boxscore. Something that you cannot measure until you see a game live or actually get a chance to talk to the people involved. Honestly, I don't think anyone could blame the Beavers if they just woulda packed it in on the 21st of January. 4 and 11...It would have been easy to say, "Well, there's always next year." But they didn't. Despite all the doubters and all the adversity, these young men persevered.
When Monday morning rolls around, there will be some highly seeded, nearly undefeated team that will be checking the BVU website, trying to figure out how this team that started 4-11 made the national tournament. They will be looking through boxscores and checking player bios. They will think they have the Beavers all figured out before they ever set foot on the court. Yet there will still be that one thing that they will fail to factor in, that one thing that isn't in any boxscore, that one thing that I witnessed last night at Eby Fieldhouse, and that one thing that turned a 4 and 11 team into the conference champions. Heart
Keep on rolling Beavers...
J 2 the Brizo
However, as I have come to find out, there is only so much a person can learn about a team on the internet. You look at the boxscore after a game. You see the stats and think that you can narrow down exactly what went right or wrong. Well the Beavers just got beat on the boards, or they just had too many turnovers. Yet, there is one attribute that doesn't show up on any boxscore. Something that you cannot measure until you see a game live or actually get a chance to talk to the people involved. Honestly, I don't think anyone could blame the Beavers if they just woulda packed it in on the 21st of January. 4 and 11...It would have been easy to say, "Well, there's always next year." But they didn't. Despite all the doubters and all the adversity, these young men persevered.
When Monday morning rolls around, there will be some highly seeded, nearly undefeated team that will be checking the BVU website, trying to figure out how this team that started 4-11 made the national tournament. They will be looking through boxscores and checking player bios. They will think they have the Beavers all figured out before they ever set foot on the court. Yet there will still be that one thing that they will fail to factor in, that one thing that isn't in any boxscore, that one thing that I witnessed last night at Eby Fieldhouse, and that one thing that turned a 4 and 11 team into the conference champions. Heart
Keep on rolling Beavers...
J 2 the Brizo