Ha comenzado la locura. Los engranajes de la compleja maquinaria de la ‘March Madness’ de la NCAA , que tantos ríos de tinta hace correr cada año por estas fechas, se mueven imparables e implacables dejando un rastro de cadavres exquis , universidades ilustres incapaces de avanzar por el cada vez narrow hallway of a 'bracket' this year has enjoyed more media presence than any other season after the vaunted-and accurate-prediction anything President Obama .
Personally, after an unforgettable past as 'Aggie' for almost five years I spent at the University of Texas A & M , this year I followed more intensely the outcome of 'Selection Sunday' , that special Sunday meeting of a committee of scholars that includes the presidents of the conferences, former coaches and analysts of prestige, which will determine the pairings which starts with "El Gran Baile" .
While we do not have (and will be long until you will) the sill of other fallen as UCLA , Maryland, Michigan or Texas-our historic rival, all common denizens of the past boxes of 'bracket' , I am inspired when I see mine in this situation, unthinkable years ago. This year we have awakened from the dream in the second round, beaten by UConn (92-66) after disposal of us Brigham Young in the first phase (1966-1979). If my
college tour, back in the 90's, the university suffered to maintain a dignified position in the middle of a table with more than 300 teams, which make up the Division I NCAA , always carrying the label of eternal project to rise, the construction of Reed Arena, numerous changes in the coaching staff and an efficient work 'recruiting' brought to an end to big-name players, who laid the solid foundations of an ambitious program to finally begin to consolidate in the 2004 season -05 with the arrival of Billy Gillespie , who led the team to earn an invitation to the NIT of that year, a sweet prelude to what would happen a year after the first incursion of 'Aggies' in 'March Madness' since 1987, despite a promising entry to be truncated in the second round.
In 2007, supporters of Texas A & M unbelievers rubbed their eyes when they read that the predictions situated to the team, led by Acie Law , a specialist wing scorer and scoring the winning basket (hence the nickname : 'Captain Clutch' ), among the top ten universities in the nation. To give you an idea, Wikipedia defines period between 1988 and 2005, which includes, of course, my time at university, as 'The dark ages' (something like 'dark period'), while from 2005 coined a new term : 'Modern resurgence' (the modern revival '). I guess that's what has to be part of living history, or, as many think, dead and buried, of any project. The case is that the team not only participated in the dance, but that slipped between 'Sweet Sixteen' , sealing the season as the ninth university in the country according to analysts, the best position Texas institution's history. Three
'Aggies' in the NBA ( Antoine Wright, Dallas Mavericks; Acie Law, Atlanta Hawks, and DeAndre Jordan, Los Angeles Clippers), Texas A & M seems to have shaken, at last, his eternal role of college applicant and "soccer" to, little by little, by its own merits and frequent "attacks of madness", earning the respect of the, admittedly we are doing well now, envied Longhorns University of Texas . Because for the students of our center, which stuck in their cars bumper stickers with slogans such as "Texan by birth, Aggie by the Grace of God" , it is hard to see how, again and again, is a neighbor and not himself who always competes with the band to be the best basketball team state.
