(02-25-2018 09:20 AM)JHS55 Wrote: (02-25-2018 08:56 AM)ken d Wrote: What sports do you not consider entertainment?
Ken, you need to stop being an ass or go somewhere else
There's actually a kind of logic to the division between football and basketball in terms of how the titles are decided. E.g., if the hoops title was decided by a BCS/CFP type system that basically excluded the G5 and FCS schools, it would have far less legitimacy, because of the nature of the sport: In basketball, because there are only 5 guys on the court at any one time, and they play both ways, if you have one special player, he can take over a game and beat a team that has much better overall talent. We've seen that, e.g.:
Steph Curry took Davidson to the Elite 8, where they barely lost to eventual champ Kansas.
Larry Bird took Indiana State to the national title game.
David Robinson took Navy to the Sweet 16.
So if a G5 school or even an FCS school happens to luck in to a special player, for that year they truly will be a "national power" level team, and thus must be included in any playoff. Had the NCAA tournament been structured in 2008 or 1979 such that Indiana State or Davidson couldn't compete against the Big 10, SEC, PAC teams, the tournament would have been missing an important team with a real chance to win it all.
But that's not the case in football. A single special player can't make that kind of difference because of the number of players involved.
Put it this way: Put Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers - not their college selves, but their right now, NFL-MVP level selves- on to the Davidson or South Alabama football teams, and those teams would still have zero chance to beat Alabama or Clemson. They'd be better than they are, sure, but Rodgers and Brady, as amazing as they are in the NFL, would still be helpless against the major powers thanks to the lack of talent around them.
But put the current, NBA Anthony Davis or Steph Curry or Kevin Durrant on to Georgia Southern or South Alabama hoops teams, or even Davidson and Indiana State, and those teams would suddenly be very good, good enough to be a real challenge for anybody, even the very best teams.