First, I put a lot of thought and time into what I wrote (and clearly I am irritated by what Davis said), so I didn’t appreciate reading my words attributed to someone else. I figured it was a troll.

Second, I disagree with your “community exception” to borrowing someone else’s words and treating them as your own. In my opinion, being a part of the community doesn’t give us communal ownership of all the words that are posted here.

That being said, you’ve earned my respect time and time again with all of the valuable insight you have added to this site over the past few years. I show my respect by editing my post to remove the inflammatory language that was intended for a troll. I don’t want an apology from you but would appreciate your respect for my opinion on sharing of and respect for ideas by at least using some of your own words next time. That’s all.

Finally, I will admit that seeing my words attributed to you is not the only reason that I am cranky about this. I am cranky and irritable because we haven’t won in 12 days. Also, I sent Davis a few emails about this, including one with a link to the post on BN. I was begging for him to respond to me. And after all that effort, his response to your query was wholly unsatisfactory and irritated me even further. He wrote on Tuesday “there is no logic—none—[to ranking UCLA ahead of Arizona.]” But his response paid no mention to that ridiculous statement. He asssumed we are mad that he voted AZ ahead of UCLA. I couldn’t care less about how he votes; I can see the logic for him voting AZ ahead of us. I disagree with him, but I can see it. My beef was the pompous arrogance with which he decided to call out all voters other than himself as being governed by principles of illogic and stupidity, as if Seth Davis is the arbiter of all that is correct or incorrect. (Probably not the only Duke grad to think so highly of himself.) As if anyone thinking otherwise is a moron. He’s being a bully, plain and simple. I don’t like bullies. I don’t like people who are intellectually dishonest with themselves to the point that they would call out people who voted for UCLA ahead of Arizona after a 12-point loss as being idiots even as he ranked Villanova below Marquette in the week following an 18-point Villanova thumping of that Marquette team.

Damn it, there I go again. I’m going to close my browser now and not look at the Internet until the game is over. I don’t care about rankings. I don’t care about rankings. I don’t care about rankings. I don’t care about rankings.

Go Bruins!