I would not play Mississippi in Oxford for fear of injury. The players would all have stiff necks from swiveling to see all the pretty girls walk by. SMU would be another to avoid for the same reason
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I would not play Mississippi in Oxford for fear of injury. The players would all have stiff necks from swiveling to see all the pretty girls walk by. SMU would be another to avoid for the same reason
Makes for a great road trip though. My eyes were so dazzled that I completely forgot about 5 missed field goals.
It's next to the only stoplight in town...there's an airport as well where they land all the cropdusters...there's a bar, too, that plays both kinds of music, country and western. I mean, it's not like we're not talking about Terra Haute or something.
Score is reporting that the other Illinois State school has Iona coach, Tim Cluess as a possibility. Illini folks are not going to be happy with this.
The point was to let schools like this years Illinois State to be seen and prove themselves against decent competition, Sounds like the two teams in the game you saw proved they didnt belong in the dance,,,,,but they had their chance.
In the city UIC schedules Loyola but Depaul and Northwestern are just about impossible to schedule...,,,UIC nothing to lose....Depaul and Northwestern nothing to gain. (In Depauls case more reputation more than fact as LU has a better rpi..my bias is showing)
Sorry, but no sympathy for schools like ISU. It isn't the job of power conference schools to help the mid-majors get into the tournament. Tough enough for the power conferences who play grueling 18 game schedules plus 4 or 5 other tough games out of conference. You want to compete with the big boys? Join a better league (like Butler or Creighton did).
Well FP....sounds like you have decided to take your ball and go home....no need to play with the kids down the street...they are just not good enough or is it they may beat us....I think you certainly represent the BIg 5 point of view very well
I don't horribly disagree with that idea, but isn't some attempt at parity better for the game? That's always been the belief of the NFL. Baseball is going more in that direction.
College basketball and especially football are a long way from anything resembling parity. Enforcing some type of scheduling guidelines would be a nice bone to throw mid-majors like ISU. It would also help minimize these god-awful November and December games that so many teams are forced to play.
Hell, it might even force Syracuse to play a pre-conference road game of consequence.
I think the season is too long. 31 games are too many. The OOC schedule has too many games too close together. Better to cut OOC back to 8 games and drop 3 games against tomato cans. All these games do for Power schools is wear out the players and increase odds for injuries. Play 3 tune-up games and 5 games against challenging competition and then go to the Conference slate.
I meant I didn't know what the point of that game was, not the point of BracketBusters in general. Those two teams had proven they didn't belong in the dance long before that game was scheduled.
Do not disagree....and that might have been the problem,,,,that they were committed to so many games and could not fill them all with good match ups On the other hand you probably got two state schools playing each other that probably would not have scheduled each other. Watching the tourney though you see that there are certainly mid majors that deserve a chance to compete against the big money boys..
