adoraz wrote:I really dislike the idea of further expansion, it'd diminish the regular season. It'd also in a way be worse for a lot of teams with mediocre coaches. All they'd have to do is basically be the 80th ranked team each year, sneak into the Tournament, and it'd buy them a lot of extra time.
I was against this idea when we had Anderson as coach and am still against it.
That's cool Adoraz. I like the responses from everyone, totally fine with the many degrees of revulsion at this idea-- ranging from not supporting this, or disliking it, or hating it, or absolutely being repulsed by it.
Final pitch: these won't change anyone's mind of course, but they are factors to consider in the coming years when weirdness happens.
- it guards us against conferences gaming the system in any given year.
- it guards us against the ESPN/ ACC/ B1G/ etc PR propaganda machine.
- The BE regularly has 8 or 9 teams in the Top 100... say 90% of us. It's a buffer against 4 of our excellent teams going NIT this year.
- it protects us against ratings systems that have a secret sauce baked into them-- NET is really still a mystery, right?
- back in the day, jumping from 48 to 64 teams removed the bye for the top 4-seeds. That was considered unfair back in 1985. This re-introduces a bye for those top seeds.
- it fills in the boring downtime between Sundays and Thursdays. Seriously, after the first weekend ends, we sit around on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays doing nothing but watching re-runs of "ALF" and "Who's The Boss" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep", instead of the chance to watch NCAA hoops. I will design the brackets when i get a chance, and guarantee you that they will be intriguing. But to not use Mon-Tues-Wed night games is a huge missed opportunity, especially when people have sh-t to do on Saturdays and Sundays. And Friday nights are really not a good time to watch NCAA hoops... only like the MAAC and the Ivy play on Fridays during the year, except NCAA time... its unnatural.
- it guards us against weirdness such as us scratching our heads for so much love for Wake Forest, Pitt, New Mexico, Colorado, etc.