Mike Aresco will join Norm to discuss the committee's treatment of our conference.
The Ticket is The sports station for DFW. Norm is good.
http://www.theticket.com/
Can get it on iheart radio app.
Can you give the bullet points?
Not sure ill be able to listen
Just got done listening, was a pretty good interview. Didn't go over anything really other than the snub of SMU and the horrible underseeding of Louisville, but did a very good job making the point of why those 2 things were so horrible.
Posted on PonyFans:
Extremely disappointed with committee. Utah St not in conf strong as ours - last ranked team not in
-SMU passed most tests with flying colors
-Teams in that lost to UVA by 30 pts
-At Arkansas who beat UK twice
-Beat Wyoming at WY
-Late losses were vs 2 best teams in country
-AAC did not have representation because of newness, should in the future
-Everyone tries to be fair - statistics can be used in any way
-Very strong conference 8 of 18 games vs top 25
-Temple lost to TX by one & beat St Johns
-USF didnt play to potential
-UCF beat Miami
=Conference stacks up to any
Top half of conference are all hoops powers, how possibly overlooked?
-not a group of startups
-4+ tournament teams going into season
-Top players, top teams year after year
-SMU only added to clout
-defending nat champ
-great brands & established itself instantly. Doesnt understand how overlooked
-Respect decisions, but other teams didnt have SMU resume
-Have to earn respect, thinks we did
-Need to build the brand for football, but basketball very well established
-Great games in conf tourney - a lot of close matchups
-Lou
-Great TV package - ESPN family / CBS - tremendous coverage
-Intense conference, somewhat top heavy, hard not to be with this many good teams
-Is national reaction to seeding & SMU snub good for future?
-Hopes it does - silver lining: incredible national coverage as a result - AAC becoming recognizable
-Almost all coverage favorable
-SMU improving Conf w Dallas market
-SMU will fill a lot of Lou void
-Temple will bounce back
-Tulsa coming in
-USF on rise - new AD
-Houston on cuff
-Will still be a power hoops conf
-Fiesta bowl win good for football side
(03-19-2014 12:09 PM)smu89 Wrote: [ -> ]Posted on PonyFans:
Extremely disappointed with committee. Utah St not in conf strong as ours - last ranked team not in
-SMU passed most tests with flying colors
-Teams in that lost to UVA by 30 pts
-At Arkansas who beat UK twice
-Beat Wyoming at WY
-Late losses were vs 2 best teams in country
-AAC did not have representation because of newness, should in the future
-Everyone tries to be fair - statistics can be used in any way
-Very strong conference 8 of 18 games vs top 25
-Temple lost to TX by one & beat St Johns
-USF didnt play to potential
-UCF beat Miami
=Conference stacks up to any
Top half of conference are all hoops powers, how possibly overlooked?
-not a group of startups
-4+ tournament teams going into season
-Top players, top teams year after year
-SMU only added to clout
-defending nat champ
-great brands & established itself instantly. Doesnt understand how overlooked
-Respect decisions, but other teams didnt have SMU resume
-Have to earn respect, thinks we did
-Need to build the brand for football, but basketball very well established
-Great games in conf tourney - a lot of close matchups
-Lou
-Great TV package - ESPN family / CBS - tremendous coverage
-Intense conference, somewhat top heavy, hard not to be with this many good teams
-Is national reaction to seeding & SMU snub good for future?
-Hopes it does - silver lining: incredible national coverage as a result - AAC becoming recognizable
-Almost all coverage favorable
-SMU improving Conf w Dallas market
-SMU will fill a lot of Lou void
-Temple will bounce back
-Tulsa coming in
-USF on rise - new AD
-Houston on cuff
-Will still be a power hoops conf
-Fiesta bowl win good for football side
As a basketball team SMU should have been in the tournament; however, the NCAA selection committee for years as used the same RPI driven method for selecting teams. I knew SMU was out when they lost to Houston because there were so many red flags on their resume.
no crying over spilled milk. win the NIT. show the selection committee that thay made a mistake.
put together a better OOC schedule next year (already have @ Indiana, @ NCState, Arkansas).
Hopefully Temple will be much better, as well as UH, USF, and addition of Tulsa so that may hopefully help the SOS/RPI.
Use the snub as motivation during the season next year (especially when we play NCState!!).
Pony up
And he still never gets around to mentioning UConn, ever. What's this guy's deal, doesn't he realize L'Ville is leaving?
(03-19-2014 03:04 PM)uconnwhaler Wrote: [ -> ]And he still never gets around to mentioning UConn, ever. What's this guy's deal, doesn't he realize L'Ville is leaving?
My guess is he isn't mentioning UC or UL or Memphis because those are 3 brands that the conference doesn't have to help build.
(03-19-2014 03:22 PM)mlb Wrote: [ -> ] (03-19-2014 03:04 PM)uconnwhaler Wrote: [ -> ]And he still never gets around to mentioning UConn, ever. What's this guy's deal, doesn't he realize L'Ville is leaving?
My guess is he isn't mentioning UC or UL or Memphis because those are 3 brands that the conference doesn't have to help build.
That's plausible, except that he constantly concerns himself with L'Ville which makes no sense.
Tthis guy screws our school more than is conceivable, not the least of which is including "all" of the AAC women's teams in the TV contract when the only one with value is UConn's. That, alone, will end up costing our school $20+M over the life of this contract, while benefitting the other schools virtually nothing.
Your school agreed to the contract. Just like when some UC fans say the conference "screwed" UC by not adjusting the conference schedule because of the scheduling screw ups by the school. No, the school did it.
If UConn didn't want to include their women basketball rights they should have been clear about that from day 1.
(03-19-2014 03:50 PM)mlb Wrote: [ -> ]Your school agreed to the contract. Just like when some UC fans say the conference "screwed" UC by not adjusting the conference schedule because of the scheduling screw ups by the school. No, the school did it.
If UConn didn't want to include their women basketball rights they should have been clear about that from day 1.
There is not one other school in this league that has a team worth anything, the vote would have been 11-1. When that is clear you suck it up and vote along party lines. But just because we voted along party lines doesn't mean that the school isn't aware of the money being syphoned away.
And Cinci and USF have been screwed by this guy too...he came in and gave 40% of the BigEast money earned by those schools and UConn to the newcomers.
And everyone is screwed in the sense that he makes effectively what each school makes under this dreadful contract that he negotiated, and he couldn't get a spot on the selection committee which is going to cost us countless dollars from a lack of SMU, poor seeding and 3 teams in 1 bracket.
Short of Tulane and Tulsa, I don't know who could think this guy is doing a good job. Literally nothing he has done has turned out well so far.
(03-19-2014 04:04 PM)uconnwhaler Wrote: [ -> ] (03-19-2014 03:50 PM)mlb Wrote: [ -> ]Your school agreed to the contract. Just like when some UC fans say the conference "screwed" UC by not adjusting the conference schedule because of the scheduling screw ups by the school. No, the school did it.
If UConn didn't want to include their women basketball rights they should have been clear about that from day 1.
There is not one other school in this league that has a team worth anything, the vote would have been 11-1. When that is clear you suck it up and vote along party lines. But just because we voted along party lines doesn't mean that the school isn't aware of the money being syphoned away.
And Cinci and USF have been screwed by this guy too...he came in and gave 40% of the BigEast money earned by those schools and UConn to the newcomers.
And everyone is screwed in the sense that he makes effectively what each school makes under this dreadful contract that he negotiated, and he couldn't get a spot on the selection committee which is going to cost us countless dollars from a lack of SMU, poor seeding and 3 teams in 1 bracket.
Short of Tulane and Tulsa, I don't know who could think this guy is doing a good job. Literally nothing he has done has turned out well so far.
Well you make strong points. Playing devil's advocate, let's assume that there is no more realignment for the foreseeable future and that we're all stuck together.
So you've got the dreadful contract. It gets a lot of exposure, but little money. We could've gone the opposite route I suppose and had less exposure with more money. So then we're sitting on money bags, no need for that 40% to be split, right? So the top 3 have a good amount of money, but complain about not being relevant anymore. The bottom have a bit more money from the TV but no split from the pot, and no exposure. Nobody knows who they are...just another G5 conference. As we fade into irrelevancy the money dwindles, the fan support dwindles, and we begin to look like an FCS conference.
Or, we get on TV, get our names out there, increase the fan bases, and give the newcomers a little money to work with until a new contract comes up. Now when it's time to re-negotiate, the fan bases are bigger, the team names are more familiar, and the recruiting has gone up from exposure. In the long run that split of $$ helps the conference to grow a good amount and really separate from the G5.
Then again UConn, Cincy and USF could get picked up, the P5 could break away, we may not become household names, we may not see an increase in recruiting, we may not grow our fan bases...who knows. Seems like a decent investment though, the newcomers should only grow from what they were..
(03-19-2014 04:04 PM)uconnwhaler Wrote: [ -> ] (03-19-2014 03:50 PM)mlb Wrote: [ -> ]Your school agreed to the contract. Just like when some UC fans say the conference "screwed" UC by not adjusting the conference schedule because of the scheduling screw ups by the school. No, the school did it.
If UConn didn't want to include their women basketball rights they should have been clear about that from day 1.
There is not one other school in this league that has a team worth anything, the vote would have been 11-1. When that is clear you suck it up and vote along party lines. But just because we voted along party lines doesn't mean that the school isn't aware of the money being syphoned away.
And Cinci and USF have been screwed by this guy too...he came in and gave 40% of the BigEast money earned by those schools and UConn to the newcomers.
And everyone is screwed in the sense that he makes effectively what each school makes under this dreadful contract that he negotiated, and he couldn't get a spot on the selection committee which is going to cost us countless dollars from a lack of SMU, poor seeding and 3 teams in 1 bracket.
Short of Tulane and Tulsa, I don't know who could think this guy is doing a good job. Literally nothing he has done has turned out well so far.
SMU basketball is going to fill our void? OK Aresco whatever helps you I guess
... and he didn't mention anything at all about adding Wichita State? That's weird.
(03-19-2014 05:05 PM)rednblackattack Wrote: [ -> ]SMU basketball is going to fill our void? OK Aresco whatever helps you I guess
Yeah, you're right. He should have just sat there twiddling his thumbs saying "Jeez, we're really going to blow chunks without Louisville. Guess we're pretty much nothing without them."
Notice he said "help", not "completely".
(03-19-2014 05:33 PM)Redvolution Wrote: [ -> ] (03-19-2014 05:05 PM)rednblackattack Wrote: [ -> ]SMU basketball is going to fill our void? OK Aresco whatever helps you I guess
Yeah, you're right. He should have just sat there twiddling his thumbs saying "Jeez, we're really going to blow chunks without Louisville. Guess we're pretty much nothing without them."
Notice he said "help", not "completely".
No one can fill Louisville's void, of arrogance and self importance.
SMU 10 NCAA Tournament appearances. Louisville has 10 Final Fours alone. SMU's best team in twenty something years missed the NCAA Tournament. Louisville is the defending national champs and a favorite to make it three straight trips to the FF. Your right Aresco they are definitely going to help "fill the void."