I'm Tired. So Tired.

I think I'm done with the Raptors.

I'm still thinking about this, but I love the game of basketball. I loved basketball before the Raptors came into existence. So I don't need them; in fact, they need me far more than I need them.

But I've had enough of this. I cannot keep up with a team that simply cannot compete for as long as I have. It's just...exhausting, and I'm at my wits end.

Every year, I look at the NCAA tournament as manna from heaven. It's basketball played the way it's supposed to be played. I can deal with less talent, less skill and less athleticism; the game is played purely, and that is eminently more enjoyable than what the Raptors have subjected me to.

I've had good friends encourage me to go back to NCAA basketball; my initial reaction was negative, just due to the lack of broadcasting up here. But now that I think about it, I'm going to have to go that route.

I'm hungry to see the game of basketball played properly. I'm happy to cheer for a team that doesn't necessarily win championships, but that accomplishes absolutely everything it possibly can. Can I say that that's the Toronto Raptors? No, honestly, I can't.

I've spent years supporting and investing myself in this team, to the point of watching every possession and charting its outcome statistically. I can do so no longer. I will turn away from the Raptors and start turning towards the NCAA.

North Carolina has been my team since I was 10 years old, since I first started watching basketball. They'll always be my primary team, but I think I'm going to enjoy starting to follow the University of Pittburgh. They're a team with great coaching, hard play, they've made the NCAA tournament often and I have family in the area. And, they're reasonably close.

It takes a special kind of incompetence to lose the kind of fan I've been, but the Raptors have found a way to do that. They couldn't win a game if their lives depended upon it, but they can lose fans as well as anybody out there.