Campus Confidential

By Adam Abramson

A quick note to all photographers at the Final Four:

Less photos of Joakim Noah being Joakim Noah. That could also read: Less photos of Joakim Noah making Joakim Noah faces.

I went into the system and did a search for, what else, Joakim Noah Face (okay, that's a lie, I just searched Joakim Noah).

251 matches. Below is a montage of what we're dealing with. This isn't all of them, it's only 15 of the first 22 I looked through. I became fatigued from seeing him roar over and over and over again.

We get it. He's explicit with his emotions. No need for 80 photos.

I wondered though, is this a self-contrived thing? Is it hereditary? Did he adore the Incredible Hulk in his primary years? Did he do this in a bar one night and get the hottest girl there? WHY DOES HE DO THIS?

Then it hit me, like a sign from above:

That's his mom. She's normally pretty hot. But yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes. She looks far from the Swedish model she once was.

Have a good day.