What do they know anyway?
ESPN.com - COLUMNIST/FORDE - Forde: Green Gators now team to beat
"If we worried about the things you guys [the media] worried about, our heads would really explode," said Joakim Noah, the best pony-tailed baller since Bill Walton (who didn't grow his hair out until he went pro). "I think we realized that we can't worry about what people are saying and we just have to stick together and play basketball the way we are capable of playing."
I'm glad they aren't paying attention to sportswriters. These are the guys that picked the Gators to finish 5th in the SEC, and 75th in the country. I guess it's safe to say sportswriters don't have a future as NBA scouts. Then again, the Vegas sportsbooks had the Gators at 75-1 to start the season.
Nonetheless, sportswriters should always be ignored. Specifically, the always pessimistic, don't ever want to be confused as a homer, glass is always half empty, permanent sufferer from a Napoleon complex Times Union beat writer Mike Dirocco. I learned to discount anything I read in his columns a long time ago. Now, whenever the Gators have any kind of good news, the challenge is to guess how Dirocco is going to add his negative spin.