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(10-20-2021 09:35 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 09:28 PM)hooverblazer Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 09:25 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 08:56 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

Quote:"Those Cinderella schools are putting 200 people, at best, in their gym," Huggins said. "We're putting 14,000."

CBS doesn't care about the 14,000 people sitting in West Virginia's gym, they care about the 17 million people sitting on their couch or desk watching the NCAA tournament - many of which are tuning in to see if a nobody can knock his ass out of the bracket.

This won't happen...and if it does, there won't be nearly as much money to be made.

You are absolutely naive data guy if you don't think the Dance with only the P5 involved wouldn't make enough money to satisfy their egos and pockets. As long as a bracket is involved, people will watch it regardless.

Disagree. The majority of people aren't interested in seeing VA Tech vs Northwestern. They want to see if someone like Oral Roberts can go on a run.

Wrong. They want to fill out a bracket which gives anyone a reason to watch the games. The majority of the people filling out a bracket don't even know most of the teams on the bracket. The hardcore fans only cares about the underdogs.

That being said, the title of this thread is misleading. Huggins said major conferences, not P5 conferences should hold their own post season tournament and that's a major difference. The AAC would be consider a major basketball conference just like the Big East.

Makes more sense that way. Don't see the Zags being left or the Big East. Including the multi bid leagues would still give some good David and Goliath matchups. I just hope the AAC is included when it inevitably happens. Damn, now I'm gonna be thinking about the possibilities.

I appreciate Huggins for bringing his team to play us in Birmingham.

(10-20-2021 09:25 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 08:56 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

Quote:"Those Cinderella schools are putting 200 people, at best, in their gym," Huggins said. "We're putting 14,000."

CBS doesn't care about the 14,000 people sitting in West Virginia's gym, they care about the 17 million people sitting on their couch or desk watching the NCAA tournament - many of which are tuning in to see if a nobody can knock his ass out of the bracket.

This won't happen...and if it does, there won't be nearly as much money to be made.

You are absolutely naive data guy if you don't think the Dance with only the P5 involved wouldn't make enough money to satisfy their egos and pockets. As long as a bracket is involved, people will watch it regardless.

What does this discussion have to do with my job? You really are a douche lol

(10-20-2021 09:35 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 09:28 PM)hooverblazer Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 09:25 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 08:56 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

Quote:"Those Cinderella schools are putting 200 people, at best, in their gym," Huggins said. "We're putting 14,000."

CBS doesn't care about the 14,000 people sitting in West Virginia's gym, they care about the 17 million people sitting on their couch or desk watching the NCAA tournament - many of which are tuning in to see if a nobody can knock his ass out of the bracket.

This won't happen...and if it does, there won't be nearly as much money to be made.

You are absolutely naive data guy if you don't think the Dance with only the P5 involved wouldn't make enough money to satisfy their egos and pockets. As long as a bracket is involved, people will watch it regardless.

Disagree. The majority of people aren't interested in seeing VA Tech vs Northwestern. They want to see if someone like Oral Roberts can go on a run.

Wrong. They want to fill out a bracket which gives anyone a reason to watch the games. The majority of the people filling out a bracket don't even know most of the teams on the bracket. The hardcore fans only cares about the underdogs.

That being said, the title of this thread is misleading. Huggins said major conferences, not P5 conferences should hold their own post season tournament and that's a major difference. The AAC would be consider a major basketball conference just like the Big East.

Wrong

Maybe that Thomas Walkup and SFA messed him up
https://mobile.twitter.com/HeatCheckCBB/...52386?s=20

Conferences with 2 or more bids to the 2021 NCAA tournament and membership numbers:

AAC 14
A10 14
ACC 15
BE 11
B1G 14
B12 12
MVC 10
MWC 12
P12 12
SEC 16
WCC 9

I count 139 schools.

In that scenario, the 2-3 bid leagues (AAC, A10, MVC, MWC, WCC) would become one bid leagues. If the P5 + the Big East decided to do it, which league would say no thanks to an invite?

The question isn’t whether a p5/major tournament only would make a lot of money. Of course it would. And it would be watched. But would CBS or whoever pay the premium and take the PR hit they would take to blow up the most successful event in college sports history?

I don’t think so. They have a model they have invested billions in to build. They like it a lot.

The charm of the tournament is its inclusiveness and the opportunity to see these small budget schools occasionally make some margin when given a neutral court and refs. It loses some of the charm when Cinderella shows up in a P5 limo.

(10-20-2021 09:45 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 09:25 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-20-2021 08:56 PM)demiveeman Wrote:  

Quote:"Those Cinderella schools are putting 200 people, at best, in their gym," Huggins said. "We're putting 14,000."

CBS doesn't care about the 14,000 people sitting in West Virginia's gym, they care about the 17 million people sitting on their couch or desk watching the NCAA tournament - many of which are tuning in to see if a nobody can knock his ass out of the bracket.

This won't happen...and if it does, there won't be nearly as much money to be made.

You are absolutely naive data guy if you don't think the Dance with only the P5 involved wouldn't make enough money to satisfy their egos and pockets. As long as a bracket is involved, people will watch it regardless.

What does this discussion have to do with my job? You really are a douche lol

I guess I can.......no no no I am not a douche!

1) **** this guy. Jesus please let us get 14k somehow to the WVU game in Legacy. Please.
2) Glad that Chris Beard at Texas, the bigger swinging dick in NCAA, outwardly disagreed with him.

It doesn't make sense, I'm not even sure why Huggins would be the one to suggest it as his team is comfortably in most years. Nobody is going to tune into first round games of Rutgers vs Wake Forest. Cinderella is what makes the first weekend or two of the tournament so exciting, you take that away, and you might as well just have a tournament with the top 16 teams.

West Virginia needs to careful...they aren't far from being Wyoming.

(10-21-2021 01:58 PM)kdblazer Wrote:  West Virginia needs to careful...they aren't far from being Wyoming.

Well this is the idiotic quote of the day.

(10-21-2021 02:03 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-21-2021 01:58 PM)kdblazer Wrote:  West Virginia needs to careful...they aren't far from being Wyoming.

Well this is the idiotic quote of the day.

Well is it now. West Virginia is losing population...no one is moving there. Wyoming flagship university...Wyoming doesn't get much play outside of that state. So all things being equal West Virginia should be thankful for their past performances over the years because upstarts (UCF's of the world) on the block will be cleaning their clock moving forwards. Where would you like to play Morgantown or Orlando, Morgantown or Tampa, Morgantown or Charlotte, Morgantown or Birmingham, Morgantown or Dallas, or Morgantown versus any major metro. The point is there's
a shift happening and the resources, exposure, and talent (academic as well) are moving more towards urban universities not college towns. Here in the south college towns are baked into the equation but if you're school is not a national brand its tuff to win consistently.

Well, even Huggins himself didn’t use the term “power 5” or “autonomous 5” conferences. He just said major. What I imagine this references is not excluding even CUSA, but groups like the OVC, Southland, SWAC, Big South, and so on. And I highly doubt it would exclude the American.

(10-21-2021 02:49 PM)kdblazer Wrote:  

(10-21-2021 02:03 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(10-21-2021 01:58 PM)kdblazer Wrote:  West Virginia needs to careful...they aren't far from being Wyoming.

Well this is the idiotic quote of the day.

Well is it now. West Virginia is losing population...no one is moving there. Wyoming flagship university...Wyoming doesn't get much play outside of that state. So all things being equal West Virginia should be thankful for their past performances over the years because upstarts (UCF's of the world) on the block will be cleaning their clock moving forwards. Where would you like to play Morgantown or Orlando, Morgantown or Tampa, Morgantown or Charlotte, Morgantown or Birmingham, Morgantown or Dallas, or Morgantown versus any major metro. The point is there's
a shift happening and the resources, exposure, and talent (academic as well) are moving more towards urban universities not college towns. Here in the south college towns are baked into the equation but if you're school is not a national brand its tuff to win consistently.

Just stop it already. Lol