I can deal with a lot of the crap I keep hearing from athletes. Steroids this, T.O. that. It's best to just roll your eyes and look past it.
But this guy is just plain stupid.
Maryland's Greivis Vasquez is known for his loud, unfiltered mouth. He's had his share of antics such as cursing at his own fans apparently.
But picture this scenerio. Vasquez's Terps just squeked into the NCAA tournament with a decent run in the ACC tournament. Kudos. Maryland, a 10 seed, actually topped No. 7-seeded California to advance to the second round. Double kudos. Next up? The Memphis Tigers. Yeah, last year's runner-up and one of the teams to beat in this year's Big Dance.
And the eloquent Venezuelan couldn't help but make comments like these just 24 hours before the game.
"If [Memphis] played in the ACC Conference, they'd have a losing record in the league," Vasquez said. "They'd probably win all of their games outside the league and have a losing record in the league. The ACC is too tough."
"Even the President's bracket has them in there," Vasquez said. "Every team Memphis has played was intimidated because they went to the Final Four, but we're not intimidated by anybody.
"If they underestimate us, they're going to be in trouble."
Come on now. Are you serious? He honestly couldn't have been that arrogant going into a game like that. Memphis is gigantic compared to Maryland, and he had to have known his team was going to have to play perfect to beat the Tigers. It's not even worth making those remarks knowing there's a pretty good chance you're going to eat your words.
And he did. Big time. The favorites advanced to the Sweet 16 with a thrashing of Maryland, 89-70. Ouch. Sucks for that guy.
Memphis, of course, had some fun with it and purposely messed up his name and things like that. But in the end, it was deserved. It falls under the ole "talk the talk, walk the walk" adage. You just can't say those things with a 19-point whooping following.
Lesson learned.
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