Jackson1011 Wrote:For what its worth...Billy Packer, who has never been a BE man, said he thought we get eight if things continue as they are. If we only get seven for the second yr in a row, then the everyone in the leauge needs to take a hard look at what we're doing as a conference
I didn't hear this myself, but a poster on a WVU board said he heard Tom Lucci, a newspaper guy in NJ, saying the two sides need to seperate. Bascially the argument was that too many good bball teams are getting lost in the shuffle because of the size of the league and so few teams getting to the NCAAs
There was a time when 7 out of 9 BE teams went to the NCAAs..now we are looking at 7 out of 16?? Unacceptable in my book
BTW, the poster said that Lucci thought the football schools go to 10 if they do decide to go it alone...interesting rumor if nothing else
Jackson
Let me begin by stating that I am for either a partial hybrid or a complete split and not the current 16-team conglomeration.
And interestingly there is a thread over on the Syracuse Scout Board on this very topic about how NCAA bids may force a split. I don't see it, myself.
Personally, I'm not quite sure I am following the logic with the entire concept. Let's assume we split and go to 10.
Precisely how is 4 out of 10/11/or 12 different than 6 or 7 out of 16? Do posters here realize how frequently at least one of the super-conferences is held to 4 bids? It happens to at least one BCS conference virtually every year.
2007 - Big 12
2006 - ACC, Big 12, and Pac-10
2005 - Pac-10
2004 - Big Ten and Pac-10 (each with only 3 bids that year)
2003 - ACC (but 4 out of 9 which isn't bad), Big East (4 out of 14, really bad)
2002 - ACC (again 4 out of 9, which isn't bad)
2001 - none
2000 - ACC (3 out of 9, really bad), Pac-10
1999 - ACC (3 out of 9 really bad), Pac-10
1998 - Big 12, Pac-10
(NOTE: It hasn't happened to the SEC in over a decade
- who says cheaters never win.
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The real question is, will the NCAA committee go beyond 8? or is there an invisible ceiling? The answer to that question is unknown at this time.
Frankly, the 16-team league in its short 2-year history, truly hasn't had a year yet where 9 teams clearly deserved to receive bids. Two years ago a case could be made that Cincinnati definitely deserved the bid over Air Force, but I would be hard-pressed to say they clearly deserved it over Missouri State and Creighton who were also left out in the cold.
If you want to talk obvious ceilings, it's mid-major conferences being capped at 4 as the maximum, no matter how many tourney worthy teams they may have.
Watch and see, some deserving A-10 team will get the shaft this year.
Cheers,
Neil