Tiger69
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Reg: 11-23-04
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03-19-17 04:24 PM - Post#227729
In response to Tiger69
Power conferences:
--Regular conference season is for tournament seedings.
--Tournament games for lifting EVERYONE's RPI for NCAA seeding and extra bids for mediocre teams. (9, that's NINE .. to the ACC this year!)
We get 1, that's ONE, bid We are different. Better? What the hell is the tourney for, except to shoot ourselves in the face? Unless, of course, we use it to award a consolation prize to the runners up to the champion.
Tail wagging dog: our circumstances don't match multi bid conferences. Just because other single bid conferences are foolish enough to cave to NCAA and possibly place an inferior team in the Dance through a tourney upset doesn't mean we have to ape their timidity. We simply send our champ and then have a tourney to showcase our runners up. Will the winner get an NIT bid? Let's take our chances and not get jerked around by the NCAA like a bunch of pussies. If a tourney winner from a single bid is good enough for the NCAA, it is certainly worthy of the less distinguished NIT (or, TAR --Tourney of Also Rans).
Come on, Ivies. Get some cajones.
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