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Yes, sometimes here and there a "Cinderella" will make a run in the NCAA Tournament but most of the time in the Final Four you've got the same powerhouses just like in football. Like I said earlier, I like both for their own reasons and have never viewed it as a comparison between which was better/more entertaining. There are all kinds of ways to determine champions. In the EPL they don't even have playoffs. They just say whoever has the best record at the end of the season is the champion. I'm sure if that's how you grew up watching sports then that's how you would prefer it. I though like playoff element in sports. The NCAA to me plays just like the NFL. One chance and it's over. I think that's the best. My own personal taste. |
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Why the hell would we want to encourage upsets? More critically, why would we want to encourage silly outcomes. An 'upset' as we define it is generally nothing more than a higher ranking team losing to a lower ranking one. Well hell, all those really are are indictments on the rankings more often than not. I want a true outcome - that's all. I'm not the least bit interested in adjusting the rules to make it easier for inferior squads to have a hot half, get a fluke bounce and then hold on for dear life. |
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Some seasons the 'big powers' simply aren't as good. Many of Mizzou's 'upsets' this year weren't upsets at all. Mizzou is simply a more talented football team in 2013. You act as though national powers will be more talented simply by name every single season, but it's not the case. Great programs will have off years. Average to good programs will have great years. To my eyes, Mizzou is the 2nd most talented team in the SEC this season. You could argue anywhere from 2nd to 5th, but this is a damn good football team that would beat A&M, LSU and Auburn on a neutral field more often than not this season. And if those teams play, I don't want a 5 point FG that they can have some guy go out there and bomb away for 1/2 the game deciding the outcome. I want a set of true results. You're talking about program-building to some degree whereas I'm talking about actual gameplay. The NCAA (football) has done a lot to encourage more equity in program building but they have refused to do anything to encourage fluke results on the field. Good. They shouldn't. Try your best to level the playing field so that all teams are on relatively even keel when getting players/coaches and then let them go prove who the most talented team is. That doesn't happen often enough in college basketball. There are too many silly outcomes. |
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmi...h-9-5-million/ If your team wins a major BCS bowl game they make upwards of $22 million and when the college football playoffs happen the 5 major conference will get $250 million /yr ($50 million per conference) |
I think however that a conference's 2nd BCS team gets a significantly lower payout right? At any rate this is a function of the control conferences have of football money vs the NCAA taking the whole $800M in tourney revenue. You have to think Slive and Delaney are chomping at the bit to take that someday as well.
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Like we've stated before. It's extremely rare for an underdog team to win the Basketball NC. It's great fun for the excitement element but in the end the best teams are always there. |
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Far more Football Champions since them have been called "illegitimate". That was a funny post by Saul Good. |
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If Alabama plays Florida State for the title, it will be the first time teams from bordering states ever play for the championship.
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2003: Syracuse 5 2004: Uconn 2 (behind Duke who they beat in the FF by 2) 2005: UNC 2 (tick behind Illinois who also made it to the final) 2006: Florida 1 2007: Florida 1 2008: Kansas 1 2009: UNC 1 2010: Duke 1 2011: UCONN 9 2012: Kentucky 1 2013: Louisville 1 He posts nothing backed up by actual data. Ever. |
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I'd prefer see a great Duke team take on a great Kentucky squad for a seat at the dance. The upset is fun in real time, but the consequences are that a team that's ill-equipped to advance often gets piss-pounded. I rarely root for upsets in football either. I didn't want to see LSU beat Alabama - as a college football fan, I want to see Alabama vs. FSU in the national championship. That's a damn compelling matchup. As a Mizzou fan I'd like to see us upset a team or two, but that's wearing my Mizzou hat. I recognize why people root for the underdog, I just hate the consequences. I want to see the most talented teams 'survive and advance'. |
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I don't root against greatness just because it's great. Sports schadenfreude should be restricted to hated rivals. Extending it to great teams just because they keep winning is petty. |
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The Big East was far better than the SEC is this year in football. Without Alabama the SEC in football this year is simply another conference. |
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1. UCONN was a 3 seed...but a 9 in their own conference tournament. 2. The Big East had the same number of ranked teams as the SEC does...and the Big East had 16 teams. 3. Even if you take out Alabama (why would you?), the SEC would have 7 top 25 teams and 4 top 10 teams. No other conference has more than 4 ranked teams. |
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And as fellow MU fans we should hate Alabama or any of the rest of the SEC. **** em all. |
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That's what's so great about Basketball over Football in college. All the qualified teams are given a chance to prove themselves on the field and not simply the result of how storied your program is. |
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Bad teams upsetting good teams because the good team had a lousy day isn't compelling at all. Meanwhile a good team going out there against another good team, both teams play their A games and the 'chalk' wins is compelling as hell. |
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The tournament should be 32 teams at most and frankly, I'd be fine knocking it down to 16. If they expand it again, I'm likely done with the sport altogether. |
Baylor trails South Carolina 39-38 in the first half. Dozens of fans are enjoying the action. So far, 29 fouls have been called.
There has been, on average, one foul called every 39 seconds...38 free throws and counting... |
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This thread has exceeded 10,000 posts. Please visit the new thread, bitches.
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Why? The number of posts on this one is epic. Why ruin a good thing, did you like New Coke too?
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What if I told you that Sagarin ranks this as the third best realignment thread?
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Saul just wanted two threads he could lob unsubstantiated nonsense onto.
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I'm still waiting for Saul to tell us who all the undeserved winners of the basketball tournament are. His blather is the whole appeal of this thread for me. Without him the thread isn't nearly as funny.
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Elite teams. Fab freshmen. Buzz-worthy games. Tuesday night was what college basketball needed. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:9969376 |
Kansas looked great last night. That game reminded me of their 2008 game against Florida.
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