Welcome back friends, it's time to do another mailbag...where discussion can get interesting and sometimes off topic. Mostly just to tell me how wrong or stupid I am because I enjoy that so much. And just for clarification, I have full rights to edit grammar and spelling...which isn't a strong suit for some. That's part of what it get paid to do, so it's cool. Not that we're perfect here by any stretch of the imagination.

Here we go, this edition's opening tip:

Posted by "Gregory" on the March 3 blog: "Walter Matthau? You've got to be kidding me. What are you, 65? How about something from Apocalypse Now like: 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning'."

The Mind: Hmmm...where to start. A line about napalm? Really? I'm going to guess that you might fairly new to The Mind, and that's a great thing but would mean that you missed the banter about how I'm just terrible with movies in so many ways. Just not my thing. But nor is napalm. Also, yes, I'm 65 and Walter is my homeboy.

Posted by "Kyle Travis" on March 3: "Wow...are you the interviewer of the stars? (Tony) Dungy, (Cal) Ripken, Bill Lynch...who's next, the President?"

The Mind: George W? Somehow that just doesn't seem to go together with "High School Sports - The Magazine." I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but I appreciate the kudos nonetheless...really just doing my job. Always trying to add some flavor to what is seen everywhere else. Most of the time I feel like we do a good job of that, other times we haven't. I'll get an interview with the prez when I'm the prez and get back with you.

Posted by "The Bruce is Loose" on March 3: "Let's hope (North Central boys hoops coach) Doug Mitchell isn't as dirty off the court as Bruce Pearl. And I don't mean because of his massive amount of flop sweat each game."

The Mind: That's really just unneccesary to speculate on such a thing when Mitchell happens to be a great guy and a class act as a person, ever since I've talked to him. We have this whole "comment approval" system here on the blog and I'm actually a little disappointed I didn't deny this one from being posted, just because that's not what we're about here. And besides, what has ever been proven against Pearl, other than hearsay?

Posted by "Neil James" on the March 10 blogregarding Brownsburg boys hoops: "New Albany awaits...end-o-season, Brownsburg, but thanks for playing."

The Mind: Neil is entitled to his opionion, of course, and he might be correct when it's all said and done. But...I don't know how you can sleep on a team with two standout D-I recruits that have combined for 81 points and 60 rebounds as a pair for both games on Regional saturday. The level of competition that Brownsburg has beaten, just look at the list of teams through sectionals and regionals: Pike, Decatur Central, North Central and Carmel. North Central was one of the hottest teams in 4A in the tournament and Carmel was in the top 5 since the third or fourth week of the season. New Albany, undefeated at 26-0, has beaten Bedford North Lawrence (8-13), Jeffersonville (11-12), East Central (16-8) and Evansville Reitz (17-8) to get to this point. Not sure how much that is going to mean come gametime, but Brownsburg's confidence must be soaring after last Saturday. It's just a matter of whether or not they stay hungry. I have not seen New Albany play, which makes this somewhat tough to analyze, but I've heard different things about them. Some people say "look out, nobobdy knows about these guys around here" and other say they can be beaten with size and smarts. All I know for sure is that it has the makings of a great one.