No doubt you've all seen the "Basket-Brawl"
That ended the U.C. - X. game.
I'd thought my old eyes had seen it all,
But this probed new depths of shame.
Is this what college sports have become?
A back alley smackdown and fight?
For 'though this scene was excused by some,
No one there was in the right.

Where were the coaches and referees?
They let all the warnings go by.
So when Gates sucker punched Kenny Frease
He gave both schools a black eye.
But yet more chilling than players inflamed
Or bloody fists dealing out slugs
Was postgame when Holloway proclaimed
We're gangstas! Don't call us thugs!

With a six game ban big Gates was crunched,
And four games for Tu Holloway.
No sweat! They both got their tickets "punched".
Next stop - straight to N.B.A.
Big money and high life to be had
And lots of fun flaunting the rules.
The pros can act up and strut their bad.
Who needs these chumps in the schools!