VCUHoops (Michael Litos Blog)

Before he retired, my dad was a public school teacher and high school basketball coach. He was always great with life lessons, and basketball lessons. Being Greek, he was direct and didn’t offer much window dressing. Never let your man go…
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But I went down to the demonstration To get your fair share of abuse Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration If we don't we're gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse" You can’t always get what you want. But when you try sometimes you just…
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You can’t think your way out of a prison that’s made of thought. That’s where we are right now. At 5-5, with nothing on the left-hand side of the ledger that impresses the NCAA tournament selection committee, VCU sits in a largely…
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Because Robby is a good dude and let me sit in the seats for yesterday’s Black-and-Gold game, I got to take notes and compare those notes with a friend of mine. It was important this season because approximately the entire roster is new. We…
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When was the last time we approached Labor Day, and your assessment of the upcoming VCU basketball season was so chock full of hmmmm? It’s like that ATM game where you are locked in a booth and a fan blows around twenties. There’s…
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Somewhere around the turn of the century, a thirty-something know-it-all moved back to Richmond and met Bobby Wright. The thirty-something was rather acidic towards VCU basketball. He loved it, but the combination of distance,…
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