SCOTT on:

   Cinderella

How exactly is the Georgia basketball team a Cinderella story?

Cinderella was a beautiful, charming, lovely young woman prevented from going to the big dance by her ugly, bossy, ungrateful step sisters even though she deserved to attend.

Georgia basketball is a stinking, puking, gutter-fish who slunk into the NCAA tournament through the back door playing three good days of basketball after three rotten months taking a spot from a more deserving team.

Georgia basketball is no Cinderella.

Georgia basketball is a skanky, meth addicted, two bit you-know-what who got someone else's invitation to the big dance because of a postal mix up.

Georgia got some other more deserving team's invite to the dance because the previous tenet didn't leave a forwarding address.

Georgia is easily the ugliest girl in the room. You can hear the whispers from every corner, "how'd she get in here?" "Who in the bloody hell is that?" "Who let her in?"

No couth, no class, no pedigree, no dignity, no refinement, that is Georgia basketball.

Georgia basketball in the NCAA Tournament is like Roseanne Barr at the Academy Awards standing next to Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie.

Georgia took advantage of what is the dumbest, most illogical rule in college basketball: conference tournament champions get automatic berths to the NCAA Tournament, not regular season champions.

Why does college basketball reward teams for playing three or four good days with its ultimate prize at the expense of teams who played several good months? Shouldn't the team that survived a 14, 16 game regular season, with injuries and travel and road games and the grind be rewarded more than a team, like Georgia, who happens to find lightning in a bottle one weekend and win four games?

It's my biggest problem with college basketball. The regular season is meaningless. Never has that been more apparent than it is now after Georgia won four conference games between January 12th and March 12th, then four conference games from March 13th through the 16th and now qualifies for the basketball championship tournament.

Ridiculous.

I like people who succeed over the long haul. Grinders. People who show up day after day, week after week, year after year and churn out top product.

Those are the people who should be rewarded.

Anyone on any day can be great. Being great for a weekend is easy.

It's easy to be a great husband for a weekend. A great team for a weekend – particularly when the top team in the league (Tennessee) gets upset and you avoid them.

College basketball rewards the flash-in-the-pan. Georgia basketball is a flash in the pan.

Georgia basketball was irrelevant the day before the SEC Tournament and it will be irrelevant again after the 1st round of the NCAA Tournament.

Cinderella? Hardly.

Georgia's the ugliest girl at this ball with a big wart on her cheek, a hooked nose, chin whiskers and a gut, but because of the absurd nature of college basketball and what it rewards and what it doesn't, Georgia gets to pry itself into a gown and pretend for a night it belongs with the beautiful people.