In that article, he approaches both the casual and hardcore fan as if he’s never heard of the conference or its tradition (because if you’re not an ACC fan, you don’t want to hear it) and simply laid out the bullet points of Florida State’s resume, warts and all.

Of course you can try too hard: Did you read the Virginia Tech guy’s piece? Niemo (not a fish) gives you the impression that leaving the Hokies out of the tournament would be the single dumbest thing you could possibly do this week, then basically lays out every argument he assumes you’ve heard as to why they don’t deserve to be in. Honestly, he swayed me the other way! I hadn’t thought about how “legendarily soft” their OOC schedule was until he mentioned it. Or that “the Hokies had a soft ACC schedule, playing the bottom five teams twice each.” Niemo’s solution to lock up the bid? Lose in the ACC tourney. March Madness, eh? I get it now.

Anyway, I type all this to say: Thanks for all your great work this season, TC. This was more great pub for our favorite site.