As much as I love this time of year,and I still do believe that the NCAA tourney is the best sporting event in the world there need's to be some changes!!
I feel bad for you guys,playing a tough schedule and actually making an effort to play quality non-conference opponents takes balls!! Kennedy and your kids showed heart and that should be commended.It's just too damn bad that your administartion doesn't care one bit! And what a hack your AD must be!!!!
Anyhow.....Seriously,what's the reason to play a regular season if all your hard work can be pissed away in one bad game? It makes no sense,it's pathetic!! it obviously a big money maker,but do you think they'll ever consider doing away with them?
Never. Money is power. Case closed.
it's not the ncaa's call, it's the conferences that decide to have the tournaments. no one from the ncaa is telling them they have to. i don't see any lf the leagues getting rid of them for several reasons.
-it's rare that the major conferences will be in a situation where the regular season champion is in danger of missing the tournament.
-for the smaller conferences, the championship game is one of the few games they even get on national television. in some cases it might be the only game.
when you're talking about 34 at larges, chances are close to 30 of them are safely in the tournament before the conference tourneys begin. there are only a couple of examples each year where someone wins a conference tournament and gets to the ncaas that couldn't have gotten there otherwise, AND that conference sends another team in addition to that. the atlantic ten is an example of that htis year, but i really don't think there were anymore. so, i don't think the conference tourneys are disrupting things too much.
If conference tourney's are eliminated what separates college basketball from college football. 325 teams still have a chance at a national championship come last month of the season, often even if you have not won a single game. I think this is what makes college hoops great. UC got snubbed this year, no doubt, but without the conference tourney what reason is their for a 10 and 10 team in a mid level conference to keep playing??? Between the big 6 conferences you guys will get 40+ bids, and have more than adequate opportunities to earn one of them. The MVC did the same thing the Big East did for years this year. They scheduled winnable games out of conference, took winning records into conference, and beat up on each other. Why is it so wrong when they do it. It is very hard for good fringe teams to get games against BCS schools, especially when you have a certain amount of $$$ you have to make to pay bills for the program (That $$$ comes from guarantee games). Big schools do not want to play at N. Iowa, or Missouri St. and take the chance of losing, plus the 50K they would make for the game is nothing like what they would make for playing Faifield at home and making 1/2 a million. When Big East schools begin playing home and homes with the Bradley's of the world then it can be obvious where the bids should go, but when teams like Air Force do all they can do without cooperation from big 6 schools it has to ride, and I am glad the committee is recognizing that.
If the NCAA would force BCS schools to schedule the fringe major schools these questions would be eliminated.