How do you waste time during a long rain delay? Take a look at how the Florida Atlantic and Western Kentucky Universitiy baseball teams handled the delay!
http://fauowlaccess.com/video/107/fau-and-wku-present-rain-delay-theatre.aspx
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Expansion of the NCAA Tournament
A huge topic as of late has been the talk of expanding the NCAA Tournament to a record number of 96 teams. This plan can happen as soon as next year. I have one question for the NCAA: Are you crazy?!
Yes, this whole thing is about money. Right now the NCAA is in the midst of a 11-year, $6 BILLION contract with CBS. It has an option to opt out of the contract after this years' NCAA Tournament and after yesterday's Final Four press conference, it seems like that will happen.While the press conference was originally supposed to be on what the options for expanding the tournament, whether it be 68, 94 or 96 teams, it clearly became one that focused on one specific number: 96.
In today's tournament, there are 65 teams, as one game is played earlier in the week, a game called the 'Play-In game.' In the new format, the tournament will be extended by a week and to make things more ridiculous, the seeding will also change.
In the current format, teams are seeded 1-16 in four regions, with the top seeded team playing the 16th, 2 vs. 15, etc. The new format would be as follows. The top 32 seeds, so those usually seeded 1-8 in the four regions, would be given first-round byes, therefore allowing the remaining 64 teams to determine who would face any of those 32 seeds in the next round. Does this make sense? Not really, but oh well.
What truly doesn't make sense is the fact that the NCAA won't do anything about the BCS, but it will ruin the best thing they have by including 32 more teams. The tournament creates BILLIONS of dollars of revenue. All the NCAA cares about is how much more it could make. It doesn't matter that some teams that qualify for the tournament won't deserve it, but it's ok more $$$.
Under the future rules, all of the teams in the NIT, including schools such as Northwestern, UNC and UCONN would have qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Did they deserve to be included? No. They didn't prove themselves in the regular season to be deserving of a bid. The new format pretty much makes the regular season irrelevant and just seems like another way to get all the big schools in the tournament. It will get rid of the NIT and end something that made all smaller schools happy: the fact that if you won your conference regular season title, but lost in your conference tournament, you got an Auto-NIT bid. But it's ok forget about them, right?
NCAA before you do something you regret, sit back and realize the ramifications this expansion will have on the college basketball landscape. But as I have already said, neither something you nor I say will matter, so just sit back and watch the NCAA become even more greedy.
Yes, this whole thing is about money. Right now the NCAA is in the midst of a 11-year, $6 BILLION contract with CBS. It has an option to opt out of the contract after this years' NCAA Tournament and after yesterday's Final Four press conference, it seems like that will happen.While the press conference was originally supposed to be on what the options for expanding the tournament, whether it be 68, 94 or 96 teams, it clearly became one that focused on one specific number: 96.
In today's tournament, there are 65 teams, as one game is played earlier in the week, a game called the 'Play-In game.' In the new format, the tournament will be extended by a week and to make things more ridiculous, the seeding will also change.
In the current format, teams are seeded 1-16 in four regions, with the top seeded team playing the 16th, 2 vs. 15, etc. The new format would be as follows. The top 32 seeds, so those usually seeded 1-8 in the four regions, would be given first-round byes, therefore allowing the remaining 64 teams to determine who would face any of those 32 seeds in the next round. Does this make sense? Not really, but oh well.
What truly doesn't make sense is the fact that the NCAA won't do anything about the BCS, but it will ruin the best thing they have by including 32 more teams. The tournament creates BILLIONS of dollars of revenue. All the NCAA cares about is how much more it could make. It doesn't matter that some teams that qualify for the tournament won't deserve it, but it's ok more $$$.
Under the future rules, all of the teams in the NIT, including schools such as Northwestern, UNC and UCONN would have qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Did they deserve to be included? No. They didn't prove themselves in the regular season to be deserving of a bid. The new format pretty much makes the regular season irrelevant and just seems like another way to get all the big schools in the tournament. It will get rid of the NIT and end something that made all smaller schools happy: the fact that if you won your conference regular season title, but lost in your conference tournament, you got an Auto-NIT bid. But it's ok forget about them, right?
NCAA before you do something you regret, sit back and realize the ramifications this expansion will have on the college basketball landscape. But as I have already said, neither something you nor I say will matter, so just sit back and watch the NCAA become even more greedy.
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