bamahoya11
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Post by bamahoya11 on Mar 13, 2016 17:59:45 GMT -5
Looking at the teams that made it in this year, I'm cautiously optimistic that we will be one of the first four out. Tulsa? Syracuse? Ridiculous.
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Post by SDHoya on Mar 13, 2016 18:03:34 GMT -5
Looking at the teams that made it in this year, I'm cautiously optimistic that we will be one of the first four out. Tulsa? Syracuse? Ridiculous. Cuse getting in is pathetic. Is boeheim on the selection committee?
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Post by hoyajinx on Mar 13, 2016 18:05:30 GMT -5
Looking at the teams that made it in this year, I'm cautiously optimistic that we will be one of the first four out. Tulsa? Syracuse? Ridiculous. This selection was a disaster from top to bottom. The really, really absurd selections, the entirely too long broadcast, the bumbling of the hosts, the leaked bracket, and on and on. I am now less excited for this tournament than I was this afternoon. There are legitimately bad/undeserving teams in this year's tournament.
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Post by SaxaCD on Mar 13, 2016 18:08:38 GMT -5
Looking at the teams that made it in this year, I'm cautiously optimistic that we will be one of the first four out. Tulsa? Syracuse? Ridiculous. This selection was a disaster from top to bottom. The really, really absurd selections, the entirely too long broadcast, the bumbling of the hosts, the leaked bracket, and on and on. I am now less excited for this tournament than I was this afternoon. There are legitimately bad/undeserving teams in this year's tournament. How could that bracket NOT be leaked? That selection show felt longer to me than a Merchant-Ivory movie you're dragged to by a girl you want to break up with anyway.
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Post by bamahoya11 on Mar 13, 2016 18:11:01 GMT -5
This selection was a disaster from top to bottom. The really, really absurd selections, the entirely too long broadcast, the bumbling of the hosts, the leaked bracket, and on and on. I am now less excited for this tournament than I was this afternoon. There are legitimately bad/undeserving teams in this year's tournament. How could that bracket NOT be leaked? That selection show felt longer to me than a Merchant-Ivory movie you're dragged to by a girl you want to break up with anyway. Totally agreed. That was painful to sit through. So much more incentive to win the league tournament last year and not have to sit for two hours waiting for an at large! Glad that in the recruiting thread Peak and Mosley are apparently already planning for it on the twitter!
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Post by SaxaCD on Mar 13, 2016 18:13:56 GMT -5
The fun part to me was always quickly filling out the bracket, then pausing to see what's what. But as the "Selection Sunday" hype has grown and grown, and it's become a thing in its own right instead of the fun footnote at the end of Conference Tourney week(s), I guess this was inevitable. Never leave a good thing alone, if you can stuff it with a ton of commercials and inane patter.
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 13, 2016 18:21:57 GMT -5
I was hoping Syracuse wouldn't get in, but you could see that coming. They were already dropping hints that not having Boeheim matters. What's laughable is that they were not even in the last four.
Syracuse would definitely lose to more 200+ teams on the road if they had to play them. They lost to SJU. So saying Monmouth is screwed for those 3 losses is a joke.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 13, 2016 18:47:23 GMT -5
The Committee would have put the entire ACC in if they were anonymous.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 13, 2016 18:54:52 GMT -5
Finally I am a Gottlieb fan.
Have long been a Kilgore fan.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 13, 2016 18:58:38 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Mar 13, 2016 19:16:08 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/sports/basketball/football-drags-on-uconns-power-5-ambitions.html?_r=0Excerpt, with emphasis in bold: "As a member of the Big East, the department was more or less self-sufficient. Now it loses around $20 million a year on $70 million in revenue. In effect, the athletic department funds its teams as if they were in a Power 5 conference, but without Power 5 revenue.
Susan Herbst, UConn’s president, understands the importance of the Huskies to the state and believes in sports as an important component of university life. But the state of Connecticut is facing a $900 million budget deficit, and there is a real question about how long Herbst will be able to fund the athletic department out of the university’s general budget. It won’t be forever.
One solution — indeed, the most practical solution — would be for UConn to de-emphasize or drop football and rejoin the Big East, which has been reconstituted as a basketball league and includes old Huskies rivals like Georgetown and St. John’s. When it was reformulated, the Big East signed a 12-year, $500 million television contract with Fox. Without the expense of football, UConn athletics could well be back in the black."
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 13, 2016 19:29:48 GMT -5
Finally I am a Gottlieb fan. Have long been a Kilgore fan. Sadly, Gottlieb could have said "who lost to both St. John's and Georgetown".
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 13, 2016 21:01:20 GMT -5
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Post by njhoya78 on Mar 13, 2016 21:24:30 GMT -5
Well, that settles it. In the words of JFK, "Ich bin ein Flyer!"
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Post by tashoya on Mar 13, 2016 21:47:25 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/sports/basketball/football-drags-on-uconns-power-5-ambitions.html?_r=0Excerpt, with emphasis in bold: "As a member of the Big East, the department was more or less self-sufficient. Now it loses around $20 million a year on $70 million in revenue. In effect, the athletic department funds its teams as if they were in a Power 5 conference, but without Power 5 revenue.
Susan Herbst, UConn’s president, understands the importance of the Huskies to the state and believes in sports as an important component of university life. But the state of Connecticut is facing a $900 million budget deficit, and there is a real question about how long Herbst will be able to fund the athletic department out of the university’s general budget. It won’t be forever.
One solution — indeed, the most practical solution — would be for UConn to de-emphasize or drop football and rejoin the Big East, which has been reconstituted as a basketball league and includes old Huskies rivals like Georgetown and St. John’s. When it was reformulated, the Big East signed a 12-year, $500 million television contract with Fox. Without the expense of football, UConn athletics could well be back in the black." They made their bed. I hope the BE doesn't offer an olive branch if ever that became an attractive option for UConn. BC 2.0. Screw 'em.
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Post by tashoya on Mar 13, 2016 21:48:28 GMT -5
I was hoping Syracuse wouldn't get in, but you could see that coming. They were already dropping hints that not having Boeheim matters. What's laughable is that they were not even in the last four. Syracuse would definitely lose to more 200+ teams on the road if they had to play them. They lost to SJU. So saying Monmouth is screwed for those 3 losses is a joke. Not to mention, they lost to the Hoyas.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Mar 13, 2016 22:16:54 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/sports/basketball/football-drags-on-uconns-power-5-ambitions.html?_r=0Excerpt, with emphasis in bold: "As a member of the Big East, the department was more or less self-sufficient. Now it loses around $20 million a year on $70 million in revenue. In effect, the athletic department funds its teams as if they were in a Power 5 conference, but without Power 5 revenue.
Susan Herbst, UConn’s president, understands the importance of the Huskies to the state and believes in sports as an important component of university life. But the state of Connecticut is facing a $900 million budget deficit, and there is a real question about how long Herbst will be able to fund the athletic department out of the university’s general budget. It won’t be forever.
One solution — indeed, the most practical solution — would be for UConn to de-emphasize or drop football and rejoin the Big East, which has been reconstituted as a basketball league and includes old Huskies rivals like Georgetown and St. John’s. When it was reformulated, the Big East signed a 12-year, $500 million television contract with Fox. Without the expense of football, UConn athletics could well be back in the black." They made their bed. I hope the BE doesn't offer an olive branch if ever that became an attractive option for UConn. BC 2.0. Screw 'em. I would take UConn if they got rid of football (or got rid of it in a meaningful way). They are a high major basketball program, they were in the Big East, and they have a large fan base that would boost attendance generally but especially at the BET. While UConn would have left if offered, they were never offered and they're basically in the AAC because they had nowhere to go when the Big East fell apart. I would even argue an 11 team conference would be ideal because there's no 12th team of similar stature.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 13, 2016 22:32:07 GMT -5
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 14, 2016 7:03:43 GMT -5
I feel no pity for those mediocre morons at Monmouth. They should be glad to be going to the NIT.
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 14, 2016 8:50:08 GMT -5
I feel no pity for those mediocre morons at Monmouth. They should be glad to be going to the NIT. Yeah, I dont really care about Monmouth, but it's sad how often I agree with Calipari at this time of year. I think he is very good at playing mind games and tweaking the Committee on this stuff. As he said, every year, they seem to emphasize certain things over others. And, how the hell are you supposed to figure out what to do? The funny thing is, we would have been a huge beneficiary this year because we had a lot of chances to get top 50 wins. Had we beaten Seton Hall, Butler and Providence at home, I really think we would have been right there. We would have had 6 top 50 wins. That's how Syracuse and Michigan got in, but teams like Monmouth didnt.
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