(03-11-2017 02:53 PM)ClemVegas Wrote:  

(03-11-2017 02:48 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(03-11-2017 11:18 AM)ClemVegas Wrote:  

(03-11-2017 10:35 AM)nzmorange Wrote:  (And yes, I know there are southern cities - it's not all one massive farm -, and I know there are some very rural areas up north - especially in NY and PA - but it's just not the same.

I'm arguing w/ a poster who appears to be convinced that the Carolinas are on the same footing as NY in basketball and that Greensboro = NYC. That's like me saying "Syracuse = Greenville (SC) area in football." I wish it was true, but it just isn't.

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i never said Greensboro = NYC. you are debating a strawman. NYC is obviously much larger metro and will have more recruits. my point is teams don't need to land recruits from NYC to be good and also that there aren't that many great players from NYC. My other point is that simply playing games in NYC does not mean teams will land recruits from NYC, and the ACC doesn't need to play games in NYC to have exposure.

you can't refute any of these arguments

you come across as one of these brash New Yorkers who think the whole world revolves around NYC. get over yourself. if northeast basketball is so great then why did those former BIg East teams leave to join a bunch of universities in the south. lol

Perspective: I grew up in Nashville rooting for Vandy.

If you world view has led you to believe that I don't care or know about southern basketball, I can assure you that your analysis is flawed. Believe me or not, I strongly urge you to consider the possibility that you don't know everything that you don't know.

Like I said in an earlier post, I'm not going to argue on this thread any more (other than posting things that I find light-hearted and humorous and/or general statements like this). It's too hostile as is.

i don't care if you don't like care or know about southern basketball, you make wild inferences. i don't care about you at all.

i suggest you consider the fact you don't know what you don't know. you seem to like talking down to people. i dn't see evidence that you know more than I do.
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Yup. You're right. Facts and logical arguments be darned.

Small North Carolina towns are exactly equally passionate about basketball as NYC. Greensboro is a huge city. And the tournament should be held in NC every year because, despite the fact that the BET has widely been regarded as a distant best tourney in the land for quite some time, North Carolina is a better place to hold a tourney. The 4! major conference's who hold tourneys in NYC either this year or next are making a mistake because they don't know something that you do. The ACC tourney has always been great and has never been widely regarded as close to an unmitigated snooze fest. The people sleeping at the games were wrong.

High quality recruits don't overwhelmingly live in the city, despite substantial evidence to the contrary. Those recruits apparently live in southern farms and have no desire to play in front of their families. MSG is called the Mecca of Basketball for the heck of it. And I'm one of those southern-hating native Nashvillians who has a blinding NYC bias.

Lastly NYC is not a media hotbed, and reporters don't watch the local news. But nobody has heard of NYC, so there is absolutely no fun in owning a town that has some name cache.

You win. I don't know what I don't know. I'm just some dumb*ss mouthing off because my feeling were hurt when someone told me the truth. The same goes for everyone else who actually lives there and/or has lived there. You know more than we do.

I give. Happy?