Oh my, oh my, oh my, did you hear?

Like DeJuan Wagner and Allen Houston and Winfred Boynes and that kid Withey who is somewhere in the southwest now, Sebastian Telfair has turned his back on U of L. Yes, it’s twu, it’s twu.

The next coming ain’t coming!

Whatever will we do?

How can the program ever survive?

Oh, that’s right. Telfair went pro. Rondo went to UK. And the Cards still managed to capture both the regular season and tourney crowns of the toughest b-ball league in history last season. How did it ever happen?

Not bad for a bunch of schlepper recruits. (By the by, that’s a joke.)

I guess you’ve heard by now. The next great future U of L superduperüberprepstar, the next savior that will surely lead the Cardinals to the promised land . . . nay, the final piece in The Rick’s plan to capture the nation . . . is going to Syracuse.

Not So Fab Melo, we hardly knew ya.

You think the drivers of those cars that sped past barriers yesterday, driving headlong into roadway gulches filled with storm water and other MSD effluvia were just stupid or rebellious? Think again. Those were Louisville Cardinal hoops fans, distraught at the bad recruiting news, deciding that life was no longer worth living. Death by drowning was the course they chose.

Sigh.

Yes, as a Cardinal diehard, I was disappointed to hear that Melo, who apparently is the next Hasheem Thabeet — Read: foreign pivot with little experience but serious upside — chose to ball for Jim Boeheim. Then, about a nanosecond later, I got over it.

I hope my fellow Cardinal fans do too. There is always — always — somebody else who will chose to wear the red & black. Beside, ye doomsayers, remember this: Jennings and Samuels and Goode are only sophomores.

The Cardinals shall survive.

So, put the rope with the noose away, and go mow the lawn or something that will take your mind off this blip on the recruiting road.

As much as we love all things hoops, life is too short to allow our personal well being to be dictated by the whims of 18 year old kids.

– Seedy K