Don’t get me wrong — I love the Division I basketball tournament and I can derive a good amount of satisfaction from watching it, but it just isn’t the same. This time of the season I’m always dealing with incredible withdrawal symptoms.

I’ve been going full-bore at this since about mid-July, when we dove deep into preparations for Kickoff on D3football.com. So when the D-III tournament ends … there’s a lot of space to fill.

I know there are fans who feel the same way, and certainly there are players. We don’t often hear about the latter, but Steve Solloway of the Portland (Maine) Press Herald fills the void. He wrote this week about Southern Maine’s Ashley Marble, under the headline “Still driven, with no place to go.”

Best wishes to Marble, and all of this year’s seniors, filling whatever space might be left inside after the end of the season. After all, for me, there will be another season eventually, and my role doesn’t change as time goes on. For each year’s graduating class, the next fall is never the same.