Conference tourneys should be...

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armchairvol

armchairvol

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abolished. It will never happen, because they exist to make money--the biggest driver in sports, as we all know. But they're a waste of time. Everybody has just spent two months or longer playing each other--often twice--and then after the long season ends, everybody is supposed to do turn around and do it again in a three- or four-day tourney. It's excessive--more GREED--and unfair to the players, because they are surely all tired by now.

And most important, it's pointless: A team's performance over a 14 or 16 game schedule accurately reflects how good it is, not the quick end-of-season tourney that follows. The NCAA tourney should base its selections solely on the regular season. Yea, there is a lot of sports-talk blather about bubble teams, etc.--and the tourney's offer medicore teams another chance to qualify for the dance--but that's SUPPOSED TO BE what the regular season is about. These things are an anticlimatic waste of time...
 
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armchairvol said:
abolished. It will never happen, because they exist to make money--the biggest driver in sports, as we all know. But they're a waste of time. Everybody has just spent two months or longer playing each other--often twice--and then after the long season ends, everybody is supposed to do turn around and do it again in a three- or four-day tourney. It's excessive--more GREED--and unfair to the players, because they are surely all tired by now.

And most important, it's pointless: A team's performance over a 14 or 16 game schedule accurately reflects how good it is, not the quick end-of-season tourney that follows. The NCAA tourney should base its selections solely on the regular season. Yea, there is a lot of sports-talk blather about bubble teams, etc.--and the tourney's offer medicore teams another chance to qualify for the dance--but that's SUPPOSED TO BE what the regular season is about. These things are an anticlimatic waste of time...
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I quit reading after "surely they are tired by now"...good god...
 
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Dylan Stevens said:
So which one of your teams got beat today?
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I was going to ask this question as well. lol


Your team may not make any money, but the SEC conference does make money. Souvenirs, TV rights, advertisement dollars, etc.

They are not perhaps necessary, and do cause bubble teams to be out of the tourney because of an unlikely winning the tourney. But most of the time if your in the conversation of being a bubble team... you have no business talking about the tourney anyway.
 
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Maybe you could petition the NCAA to make the winner of the regular season the automatic qualifier for each conference and see how that goes.
 
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