Updates Suspended

As I mentioned in my post on the Bluejay Cafe, I'm going to put this on ice for right now. First, I don't have the time to update this as I'd like and it deserves. Second, I have more than enough headaches in my life right now that this probably isn't a good idea at the moment.

I am as guilty as a lot of us in allowing too much emotional investment to be placed in the hands of a basketball team or baseball team. Success and failure in the field of athletics is something that you or I as a fan have no real, tangible hand in either way. It's not healthy to ride that emotional roller coaster.

Good night, God bless and may all have a solemn and profitable Lenten season.

Blog Updates

Friends, I've been extremely busy this weekend. Obviously, there's a lot to talk about with tonight's game at Illinois State and the disappointing loss at home to Drexel. I will have full updates put on the site later tonight, after the game. Take care.

Updates Coming Sunday

I've discussed on this blog before that sometimes updates do not come as quickly as I'd like because this is just one person's effort and factors of time and competing obligations come into play. However, today is a good example of another reason I can be deliberate on commenting on certain subjects and how quickly that I respond: it is better at times to allow the lapse of time to both calm down and be able to evaluate the surrounding issues with a more critical and rational eye.

With the combination of heartbreaking losses in road games vs ranked teams in both men's hoops and basketball (and both contests being ones that the players legitimately left the arena of play feeling like they let one go by the boards), a more immediate comment would have been an undecipherable screed about awful officiating, lack of killer instinct and the lack of civilized sophistication in the Carbondale area. As cathartic as that may have been, that would have done everyone a disservice and would have largely been an emotional release rather than a rational discussion.

Thus, as time permits this weekend, I will have full reports on both the basketball and baseball games up and will proceed in the manner that I believe you all have come to expect.

Note on Recaps and Previews

Due to the difficult nature of the times of some of these games, I wasn't able to get up a proper pregame for Houston before tonight's game. I thought it was more important to recap the effort against Valpo in the time we had. That said, later tonight I will have up a full recap of tonight's Houston game and later tomorrow morning, I will write up the matchup with either Hawaii or Nebraska in the Championship Game.

Welcome

Welcome to the second edition of View of the Hilltop.

So, what are we doing here? Simple. While I'm still very much involved with the Bluejay Cafe, we're reorienting the site a bit. FreddyMac has some really exciting things in the works for the site in terms of content and offerings and we are still committed to providing the best forum for discussion of Creighton basketball and athletics on the web.

That said, things don't always work out the way we expect, and it doesn't look like we will be able to provide the sort of structured pre and post game coverage that we have in the past. I'm very much disappointed that I can't do everything that I have in the past, and what I would like to do, but we have to deal with the realities of what life deals us.

All that said, I still have a lot to say about the Jays and I'd like to still use this forum to do that. So, considering the more free form nature of the contributions I will be providing, both Freddy and I felt the best way to do that would be to relaunch my blog and link to that content through the Cafe. I will still write about the games and the rest of the news and note surrounding Bluejay basketball (and baseball, when the time comes around), although this is going to be a more laid back format than I've used in the past.

I appreciate all the kinds words I've received from the fans and our Cafe brethren, and I hope you will still find my work useful and enjoyable.