City of Pain

After watching the Syracuse – St Joe’s battle the other night, I thought about doing a Big 5 season preview. Yea, can you believe it? No, really I’m not joking. The problem is that the Big 5 isn’t a real conference, it screws Drexel out of the equation when they should absolutely be included in it, and there are basically two decent teams (Villanova and St. Joe’s), and three teams that should locate Marty McFly and his DeLorean so they can travel back to the 1950s and remember when they used to be good (Penn, Temple, La Salle). Ok that was a little harsh on Temple…sorry Owls fans. I thought about the history, the pageantry, the rivalries, the…..lack of real competition over the past, oh I don’t know, TWENTY YEARS. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’ll be attending some Big 5 games this season and thoroughly enjoying them, but we live in an era ruled by the major conferences and prime time television. Previewing the Big 5 this season is about as relevant as paging through Consumer Reports and comparing value and pricing on new VCRs. I’m not even sure if people in Philadelphia care that much about it anymore. Anyway, in case you were wondering, I like Villanova to win the imaginary Big 5 title. Which brings us to…….(drum roll), your City of Pain Villanova Wildcats Season Preview!! It doesn’t get much better than this folks. Only finger painting, making sand castles, children’s laughter, running topless on a summer evening through a wheat field in the American Mid-West, and watching bestiality porn can top this.

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