I'm by no means endorsing the greatness of that Maine team.  I was simply
pointing to a fact, they were #1 all year, and they won the tournament.  I
don't agree with any team that breaks rules, and frankly don't have much
respect any coach who does things like Walsh did (no matter how "bad" he
feals about it now).
 
 
 
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Amber-Dee S. Uyesato wrote:
 
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Ken Taylor wrote:
>
> > the best team all year didn't win either.  In fact you have go back to
> > Maine in 1993 to find a #1 team that won it all, and even they faced two
> > one goal games at the Final Four.
>
> One thing has been bothering me. Yes I agree Maine was a great team. But
> can we keep giving kudos to them after being put on probation for so long?
> Other teams won without violating NCAA rules (whether or not these rules
> are lame). Should we give so much credit to a team that did not comply
> with these same rules?
>
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