Good Guy Noah More in Final Four

Public opinion seems to have turned on Joakim Noah. The darling boy of the NCAA Basketball Tournament last year, Noah is now the most overexposed and over criticized player in the NCAA.  
 

It’s easy to make fun of Noah.  His hair is as ridiculous are his name, and perhaps as ridiculous as some of the things he’s done this season.  He takes swings at cheerleaders, gnashes his teeth and says some pretty stupid stuff, but that could be said of a lot of people in the NCAA, and he was certainly the same kind of personality last year.  The one thing that chanced was success. 
 

After Noah and the Florida Gators won a championship, the world as Noah knew it changed.  He could have probably gotten a decent NBA contract after last season, but he chose another year of learning about success the hard way.  Every visiting arena seems focused on insulting him. His critics bring up his falling stats at every turn, and even if he has a good game or finds he’s in the Final Four again, nobody is satisfied.
 

Noah went from a nice page one photo opportunity to a guy who pisses everybody off just by walking into the room. People who buy NCAA Tournament tickets to his Final Four game will get to see Joakim Noah the bad guy. Check out StubHub.com for those tickets.    

Posted in General on March 28, 2007

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