The start of the college basketball season has used a powerful suggestion that the world is still very much in the grips of a pandemic.
Georgia Tech‘s Josh Pastner had an idea about how to keep spirits high.
Prior to Georgia Tech dealt with Nebraska on Wednesday, Pastner presented his team with a Covid piñata and informed them to smash it. Yes, the video of this is exactly as Lynchian as it sounds.
Candy spills out, the gamers celebrate, and the Yellow Jackets go on to beat the Cornhuskers, 75-64, to improve to 2-2 on the season. All of this is actually happening.
It’s worth mentioning that Georgia Tech was having an extremely odd season even before Pastner brought a Covid piñata into presence. The Yellow Jackets lost their season-opener to in-state competing Georgia Southern in 4 overtimes, then lost to low-major Mercer prior to rebounding to shock John Calipari and Kentucky. These would be wild ups-and-downs for a middling ACC program without playing in a pandemic or filling an image of a fatal virus with Laffy Taffy. Leave it to Pastner to press the vibes to an illogical extreme.
Diehard college hoops fans have actually long discovered that Pastner is a bit a weird man. Mike Rutherford of Card Chronicle when put together a test pitting Pastner quotes vs. quotes from Michael Scott of The Office, which is one of the best blog posts ever written. Bringing a Covid piñata to the locker space to buzz up the group sounds precisely like something Michael Scott would do.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so deeply sad that this virus continues to trigger death and destruction around the world. College basketball has ended up being a distraction from the nightmare we wake up to every day.
College basketball players get their ‘cost of attendance’ stipend and the chance to take credit hours without paying the expensive higher education costs the rest of us do. College basketball has actually been an unclean sport from really start of its presence, and now it’s never ever felt dirtier.
It’s the task of the coaches to keep their group focused through all of it so they might have the honor of winning something like the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic. This week gave us 2,500 deaths daily and a coach who filled an infection piñata with candy. More death and more motivational methods await us in the weeks ahead, at least until somebody has the common sense to finally question why we’re still doing this.
Pastner has to keep them focused, in some way.
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