{"id":3155,"date":"2025-03-15T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2025-03-15T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:35:02","slug":"the-big-12-is-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"The Big 12 is awful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, not the teams &#8211; the Big 12 plays some great basketball.  I was looking forward to seeing how Houston did as some of the other top teams like Auburn, Michigan State and Maryland were upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made it about a minute before I had to change the channel.  The Big 12 court is one of the most atrocious things I have ever seen.  Whoever thought it was a good idea to interweave all those X and I so the Big 12 logo was printed over and over again was such a bad decision.  I was getting a headache just watching for a short amount of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I guess I will be watching the Mountain West or Big East games. I will keep an eye on the Big 12 score but I just don\u2019t know that I can watch for long periods of time.  I know the Big 12 was loving the publicity as people have been talking about the court design.  But I don\u2019t think it is what they really want for lots of people to tune in for a minute to see what the chatter is about, look at it and say &#8211; yep that is awful &#8211; and then turn off the game like I just did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope the Big 12 championship is a blowout &#8211; then I won\u2019t feel bad about watching one of the other games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not the teams &#8211; the Big 12 plays some great basketball. I was looking forward to seeing how Houston did as some of the other top teams like Auburn, Michigan State and Maryland were upset. I made it about a minute before I had to change the channel. The Big 12 court is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}