Shot!

"Yeah my tatts are looking good on TV tonight bruh!"

March Madness has lived up to the hype in every sense of the phrase! Chaos is more like it bruh! If you wanted excitement you got it! If you wanted a bracket that was shot to pieces you got it. If you wanted the idiot co-worker that's always lying about his bracket screaming that he picked Lehigh to upset Duke on the first week end or Norfolk State to beat Mizzou you got it.

While you're at it get Michigan State going down to Louisville in those hideous uniforms. What was that bruh? They may as well have been playing in Zips or Pro Keds with those ugly socks. Both Dieon Sanders and I have always lived by the mantra, "If you look good you play good!" but that definitely wasn't the case for the Cardinals. They looked a hot mess on Thursday night and still knocked off the first #1 seed sending them to the crib early.

My bracket is so shot I've thrown it in the garbage bruh. I had Michigan State, Duke, Florida State and North Carolina in the Final Four with the Spartans winning the whole thing. Now that Izzo and company are back in East Lansing licking their wounds. I can sit back and enjoy the rest of the tournament because I don't have to think about my stupid bracket.

The problem that I have in doing a bracket every year is that once you pick certain teams to win. Then you tend to root for the bracket instead of rooting for the underdog to win that all of a sudden goes on a run during the game. I feel conflicted and can never really enjoy the tournament, so with boyz going down early I'm off of the hook.

What's also shot are the job opportunities for many of the Cardinal players. I just hope that Louisville has a tattoo removal department in their athletic facility. Those kids were tatted up from head to toe and everybody's not going to the league bruh! I'm blown away by the amount of college athletes that have tattoos all over their bodies. Let's keep it real or all the way 100, which ever comes first! I've got a tattoo and multiple Sigma brands but when I suit and bow tie up you can‘t see them. Also, I was a grown man before I got a tattoo and knew where to put it based on what type of clothes I wear to work. If you're still in school you have no idea how you'll have to dress for work some day.

Unless some of these kids plan on wearing a hijab to the interview and to work for the rest of their lives they're in trouble. The hijab is the outfit that Muslim women wear to cover their bodies where only their hands, face and feet are visible. They need to start selling them joints at Louisville in the athletic department now.

What's the point in pursuing a college degree if you want to look like Delante West, Allen Iverson or Lil’ Wayne bruh? I mean if you don't make it to the league you’re shot unless you've got enough bread to get the tattoos removed. If you walked into my office looking like a retired gangsta rapper or a member of the Sin City Motorcycle Club you’re shot.

My mind just went blank and you may as well have been Charlie Brown's teacher bruh! All I’m hearing during the interview is, “Wa Wa Wa.” Yeah it was great to see you, don't call me I'll call you type joint. Shot! I put the blame of these parents because you've got to have some ground rules for your child. If your kid is still in high school with a complete sleeve and a joint on his neck you need to get in the cut right now. Kids can’t see into the future but you can at least see up to your age and you know just how difficult it is to make it out here, especially as an African American male.

"It's tough out here young blood!"

Stop me when I start lying bruh! During this most recent economic down turn the black unemployment rate averaged 16.1 percent in April, May, and June 2011, compared to an average of 7.9 percent for whites in the same period. However, the unemployment rate for black males is as high as 17.5%.

According to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate for black male college graduates 25 and older in 2009 has been nearly twice that of white male college graduates at 8.4 percent compared with 4.4 percent. Now ask yourself what happens to those numbers when you show up with tattoos all over your body bruh. I’m just sayin’! We’ve got to want to do more than just look cool on TV during the NCAA Tournament.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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