UAAP Season 71
Hoorah! We’re the Champions!!! It’s really great. I even got myself a glow-in-the-dark championship shirt with the signatures of the players on them :o And I just attended the not-so-awesome giant bonfire. Not-so-awesome because the mud in Bellarmine Field was mostly ankle deep, sometimes even past the ankle. O_O Mud Mud Mud everywhere. My feet have now been given mud bath treatment or whatever you call it. Oohh! But the fireworks were absolutely fantastic especially the last one because it (exploded?) above the BellField, and it was really high and huge. It looked like it showered gold sparkles over everyone. :3
Yet despite the Championship… I’m not really happy with the aftermath of our glory. It’s just really annoying. I didn’t watch the game live and thoroughly, plus I’ve only heard talks about the game, so I don’t really know much but this is what I think. (And I’m not a die-hard fan of basketball, or the UAAP, so I don’t really know much aside from what I hear.)
I think Ateneo did a really great job this season. I heard it was a clean sweep except for that one loss and I really think Ateneo deserved the championships. But all this annoying squabbles with La Salle is seriously pissing me off. Hold on a second.
Based on what people told me about what happened during the final game, this is what I think. I really think that complaining about the referees is really useless. As my mom said in her blog, any objections towards referees should be raised before the game. Once the game starts, you are to accept the calls made by the referees. Now, we are not positively sure if the calls made during the game was due to biases, but it really annoys me because we’ve all been through this before – many times even.
Ateneo has had their share of unfair calls in the previous seasons yet I think we’ve managed to accept our defeats with dignity. It really annoys me because the trash talks this year have been rampant and severe. Just because the tables have turned against La Salle’s favor, doesn’t mean they have to bad mouth Ateneo for being immoral and stuff like that. But I’m not all against La Salle. I think Ateneo’s been really arrogant about their win as well. Maybe it’s because we haven’t won in 6 years… but I think the giant ego should be controlled. We say La Salle’s a sore loser, and although I believe so also (sorry), I don’t think it’s proper to trash talk DLSU the way people have been doing recently.
I think we won as fair as a UAAP game could be (I mean referees are humans too. They don’t see everything the camera does. Plus, I’m pretty sure everyone does something they shouldn’t during the game whether intentionally or unintentionally), but we should not bad mouth La Salle, and La Salle should accept their loss with pride and dignity because they also worked hard. It really saddens me when I heard BOTH DLSU and Zobel did not accept their trophies? awards? It honestly doesn’t make sense about the argument that they weren’t called. How could they forget about it? Why do they need to be called out anyways? Why didn’t anyone go out to check or something? Even on the premise that no one called them.
Oh. Fyi. AdMU won… in both basketball and swimming. Blue Eagles, Lady Eagles (Swimming Team), and Eaglets? ( is that what they call the junior basketball team? )
PS. Pls. don’t get offended if I don’t approve of your comment. I reserve the right not to accept it if I think it will cause a fuss (in the event someone actually comes across this little blog of mine). XD
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