Buzz Williams comments on the committee regarding A&M

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vollygirl said:
Time to drop the NCAA tournament altogether, and a collective of colleges and universities agree to put on a tournament on their own. Problem solved.
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Interesting idea for a revolution (or a fantasy movie). Say next year a bunch of top ranked teams turned down their March Madness invitations. The NIT could load up and have the better tournament!

Of course, office pools would then be NIT picking...
 
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My suggestion to Buzz:

1) schedule better OOC
2) don’t have an 8 game losing streak in February
 
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BruisedOrange said:
Interesting idea for a revolution (or a fantasy movie). Say next year a bunch of top ranked teams turned down their March Madness invitations. The NIT could load up and have the better tournament!

Of course, office pools would then be NIT picking...
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The NIT was the more prestigious tournament in the 1940s and early 1950s. Some Teams played in both tournaments. Then the NCAA decided to require the conference champions to only play in the NCAA and the NIT was muscled out.
 
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I am not a vol sunshine pumper.

My track record proves it.

I can understand not being a 1 but not being a 2 is insane.

Being a 3 is a slap in the face and shows extreme bias.
 
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CAVPUT said:
It's all about drawing viewers. They're going with the "name" programs and markets. Michigan will generate more interest than aTm. Duke will draw more viewers than UT. It's not so much a blue blood bias as it is a need to max ratings to gather in more money from TV. Just business.
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The real problem was there was no place to put the Aggies that would lead to their preconceived outcomes.
 
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vollygirl said:
Time to drop the NCAA tournament altogether, and a collective of colleges and universities agree to put on a tournament on their own. Problem solved.
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That is exactly the current problem. It’s a collective of colleges and universities bound by the common goal of extracting every single cent out of said collective’s broadcast contracts.
 
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Every year, there are coaches that whine they didn't make it in, but this is the first year where I've actually sympathized. This year's committee was absolute garbage. They released an early bracket back in early February and it looks like they called it a year when they did that. Literally every team that played their best ball in Feb / Mar was underseeded or unfairly excluded: Tennessee, Iowa, Virginia Tech, Texas A&M, San Francisco. What makes it all the more absurd is that they ignored their own criteria in order to reach these results.

There have been questionable calls by the committee in the past, but the entire bracket was garbage this year.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
Every year, there are coaches that whine they didn't make it in, but this is the first year where I've actually sympathized. This year's committee was absolute garbage. They released an early bracket back in early February and it looks like they called it a year when they did that. Literally every team that played their best ball in Feb / Mar was underseeded or unfairly excluded: Tennessee, Iowa, Virginia Tech, Texas A&M, San Francisco. What makes it all the more absurd is that they ignored their own criteria in order to reach these results.

There have been questionable calls by the committee in the past, but the entire bracket was garbage this year.
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They should have called their "early release" what it really was, a spoiler alert.
 
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Houstonvol1 said:
“It has caused me to lose all respect and faith in the system and those that are in it,” Williams said, fighting back tears. “What has transpired is wrong. … The process is obviously flawed, and it is apparent that there is way more included that is unseen and unknown in the selection of the 36 at-large teams than what the public is made aware of.

“Until there is complete transparency and accountability the system will stay broken, and this will continue to happen.”

Williams also distributed nine pages of his own research of why A&M deserved an NCAA berth.

“It defies logic that we’re not in the NCAA Tournament,” he said.

Texas A&M's Buzz Williams lost 'all respect and faith' in system after NCAA snub
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He pretty much nailed it without ranting...I'd expect Rick Barnes discussing the idea of not playing championship tourney (though not realistic) and this will garner some attention to do some vetting...though you know when groups do self analysis of themselves, there's rarely much to come out of it.
 
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ZZ13 said:
I kept saying this but no one is listening (that’s ok). The tournament is first and foremost a TV show to generate revenue. Just as contestants are specifically chosen on any other reality show to generate interest and ratings, so is the NCAAT field. Accept that and you’ll be at peace.
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If true, would TAMU be excluded?
 
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Sudden Impact said:
Twitter ---- Pictures of all 9 pages. Names were Blacked out of teams but you can easily tell who they are based on Worst Losses, best wins, records vs Q1 and Q2..... He did a better job than the committee did. 2 days vs 4 weeks. What is interesting is that he stripped out all the AQs and only address the At Large Bids.
It show just how incompetent the committee was in their analysis.
He addresses the obvious and later summarizes his findings.
From an overall perspective you can see why he has no faith in the committee.

here you go save you from having to look.... You are Welcome.

I am not so sure that the Committee was capable of doing this kind of work based on their product I know they were not. A lot of Coin Flipping going on is what it appears to be...

6231fff419339.pdf.pdf (townnews.com)
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If ATM is on the bubble next year ... I bet they squeak in. LOL. Dude undressed them!
 
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vollygirl said:
Time to drop the NCAA tournament altogether, and a collective of colleges and universities agree to put on a tournament on their own. Problem solved.
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The NCAA has shown over and over again that it is just a necrotic bureaucracy. Time to throw it on the ash heap of history and, as you say, do something better.
 
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Has anyone seen the schedule that Michigan played? If not, I urge you to look it up. They seriously have like 4 or 5 wins against teams that made the tournament. All their other wins were against very subpar opponents and they only have 17 wins at that. How they made the tournament and Texas A&M did not is something the selection committee should have to answer in a true press conference. It really is time to get rid of all the committee members and start over. They just really can’t stand for the SEC to be the best in football, basketball, and baseball!
 
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wmcovol said:
My suggestion to Buzz:

1) schedule better OOC
2) don’t have an 8 game losing streak in February
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Sounds like the committee's response.
I think Buzz address those issues several times with his rebuttal.
If we had a competent committee we would not be having this discussion.
Although we all agree we need to fix the committee and not change the criteria.
 
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DC_Vol said:
This year’s brackets are not good. Maybe the process has been flawed all along, but circumstances this year have shined a light on how unserious the committee takes the job of selecting and ranking the most deserving teams for the tournament.

The only way to restore faith in the process is to replace the entire committee and make the selection process more transparent. As with many things in life, there is an art (subjective) and a science (objective) to narrowing down the field to the tournament teams. The objective part should be defined in advance and known by all; the committee can defend the subjective part.

There will rarely be a year without a bit of controversy, but the NCAA needs to understand how important this event is for a basketball program. I hope this year’s mess will result in some positive changes that provide more confidence in how the selection process works going forward.
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vollygirl said:
Time to drop the NCAA tournament altogether, and a collective of colleges and universities agree to put on a tournament on their own. Problem solved.
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I read all these comments about this “Committee “. Does anyone have a list of their names so we can get after them?
 
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Who are these people who do the selection? Their names and addresses should be made public! When they make bad decisions, they should have to live with the consequences! And when they make good decisions, we will compliment them! But we should know who they are and where we can reach out to them! That would be a good start!
 
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It is impossible to fairly setup the brackets so they have stopped trying. The main problem is small mid-majors with auto bids being significantly worse than the at large entires. This just points out even further the need to split the current D1 into 2 divisions. Non of those teams, 13 thru 15 seeds, are actually competing for the the title, same in football. A small university is undefeated and makes the football playoff, not really competitive with Bama and UGA.
 
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walkenvol said:
Notre Dame’s resume looks as bad or worse than Michigan to me when viewing Q1 results
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Notre Dame's inclusion was bad, but Rutgers and Wyoming were worse IMO. Both Rutgers and Wyoming weren't even in the ballpark of tournament teams on the NET rankings. And I mean, it's fair to say those rankings have some flaws. It'd be totally OK with the committee looking at NET, Sagarin, Massey, BPI, KenPom, a variety of computer polls, as well as the human polls, but pretty much none of those polls agree with the NCAA.

While I do think A&M got screwed, I could at least see a counter-argument if the NCAA picked some other teams that rated well. It's really the combo of excluding A&M while including Notre Dame, Rutgers, and Wyoming that makes it all a joke.

As far as Michigan goes, they did well in most of the computer ratings, but I tend to believe that those ratings are overestimating their strength. But I guess that annoys me even more, b/c they are using Michigan's strength on NET to justify including them, while completing ignoring NET for every other situation.
 
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