Here we go again, NCAA. You have teams playing in tournaments. What are you thinking? All that travel! How will these young, impressionable -- not to mention, delicate -- youngsters handle such rigors? Why, flying on airplanes... what is this? The future?
The NCAA baseball tourney kicked off almost a month ago. There were "Super Regionals" held in Athens, GA; Baton Rouge, LA; Cary, NC; Coral Gables, FL; Fullerton, CA; Houston, TX; Tallahassee, FL; and Tempe, AZ. The Regionals before them actually included all those plus Ann Arbor, MI; Conway, SC; College Station, TX; Lincoln, NE; Long Beach, CA; Raleigh, NC; Stanford, CA; and Stillwater, OK.
It's madness, I tell you, MADNESS!!!
When will they have time to study? Couldn't this have overlapped with academic finals? See, college football is sensitive to such things by not having a playoff of any sort. Even though such a playoff would be held during 99% of schools' winter breaks.
Next thing you crazy-ass fans will want a tournament for football with 64 teams in it! Then where will the madness end?
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In the end, folks, we all know why football doesn't have something that every single pro and college sport -- besides D-I football -- has. And that reason is.....
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Baseball actually is suffering a lot more than the other sports because they play so many games. If you make it to Omaha you can count on playing at least 65 games in about a four month span because of the new uniform start date. Most teams are playing at least four games a week, sometimes six, and it is killing the kids as far as class time. The uniform Start date cut as much as four weeks off the schedule for some schools, therefore forcing more midweek games.
The Big Ten is somewhat used to it, since they often couldn't start their season until the new start date anyway and still have to play about the first 15-20 games on the road. It's not hurting now, since most teams are out of school, but the only accomodation some schools have given is a delay in weekend games at finals time.
Sorry, thanks to my wife I've become a college baseball junkie, and Miami blowing it in Omaha this year still hurts.
**NEWSFLASH**
-The semester is over.
-College baseball doesn't come with the same media obligations as a BCS bowl.
We've been over this before, haven't we? Give it up. There are many reasons why a baseball playoff works and a football one does not. One reason is the logistics of fan travel.
$90,000 is the reason there's not a playoff in D1 football? Someone should be able to pony that up pretty quickly...
Matt, fan travel is easier for a month of baseball tourneys all over the country rather than 2-3 weeks of winter break travel? I don't follow.
And, no, I don't think we'll give it up. Us and 90% of other college fans who want a football playoff.
Also, "NEWSFLASH" -- did you have college classes in late December and early January?
Didn't think so.
You kinda have it right. I think the conference heads looked at how much college basketball's regular season sucks, and decided they want nothing of that.
What's the big game this football season? USC-OSU... For college basketball nobody cares until NCAAT time. Ratings show this, even for the marque ooc games and during the preseason tournaments. So yes, I say that NCAAF has it right.
anonymous and Matt, you guys have convinced me...NCAAF does have it right. Deciding it on the field makes no logical sense. I've said it before, I don't think we should keep score either- I think we should hire a committee to decide who has won each contest based on likability.
Afterall, it's not about winning the game, it's about interest around the game.
Anonymous -- you think nobody cares about NCAA basketball until tourney time?
I don't know where to begin with you.... but I guess I could start by pointing out that you're probably right that the casual fan doesn't care as much... and by casual I mean the thousands of uninformed clowns who fill out brackets and brag about 10s over 7s that they had as "upsets."
I think true college bball fans are interested starting in November. But that's just one fellow's opinion, as George Carlin would say.
I love college basketball, but the fact is that its popularity is waning. I watched a certain team through the entire season. Most people don't even care for their own team until the tournament. Seriously, in the NCAABB regular season, how many people do you know race to the tube to watch a match? Now compair that to the college football regular seasonl.
Well dowd, you have yet to convince me. Perhaps that signifies something about your useless exaggeration and hyperbole. Perhaps you guys should put forth a true argument instead of complaining about Evil Big Conference and some conspiracy theory about corporate greed.
My conspiracy has little to do with corporate greed- it's merely complacency and the power struggle that's resulted because of that pissing match. Just because things are traditional doesn't mean they're right. Sport at its core, is designed to see whom is the strongest, fastest and best...without head to head contest, the best is never crowned. I simply don't understand how anyone who is truly a fan of a sport can be a proponent of a committee matching up a championship.
Teenaged girls, Moms and Matt can all agree that the existing system is bestest because it's most entertaining and draws the most attention, but that doesn't make it the way it should be.
wait - colleges play baseball? who knew!
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