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Post by williamtsherman on Dec 7, 2020 12:55:03 GMT -6
Something I've always thought is that a lot of the fun and interest in the tourney leaks away as it progresses. That time around the first two rounds is the peak. Without having taken an actual poll, I believe a lot of people, especially casual fans, feel the same way.
I can think of two reasons for this. 1) the Cinderellas usually fall by the wayside and 2) peoples bracket picks start to become nonviable as contest winners. |
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Post by 00hmh on Dec 7, 2020 13:58:37 GMT -6
Something I've always thought is that a lot of the fun and interest in the tourney leaks away as it progresses. That time around the first two rounds is the peak. Without having taken an actual poll, I believe a lot of people, especially casual fans, feel the same way.
I can think of two reasons for this. 1) the Cinderellas usually fall by the wayside and 2) peoples bracket picks start to become nonviable as contest winners. I'll buy the second factor. And that as teams drop out there are just plain fewer people interested, at least until the Final 8 or Final 4 maybe.
After all whatever affiliation you have with a team is a factor. Once it loses you lose interest except for some few good round of 16, 8, or 4 games.
That Cinderella factor heightens interest for those without a team at all or those who want the path easier for their team...but I would question how many fans there are who have much interest if they don't have a team, conference, or regional school to give the tournament some interest.
The biggest unanswered question is whether adding the 60th ranked big time school from the P5 adds more to that first round game than adding a 120th ranked conference tourney winner. For one game...Not much different having a top 30 MAC team or another top 40 B10 team in terns of competition. A lot more fans exist for the B10 team with its larger alumni base. |
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Dec 7, 2020 15:33:39 GMT -6
The biggest unanswered question is whether adding the 60th ranked big time school from the P5 adds more to that first round game than adding a 120th ranked conference tourney winner. For one game...Not much different having a top 30 MAC team or another top 40 B10 team in terns of competition. A lot more fans exist for the B10 team with its larger alumni base. I don't care if it adds anything, except fairness. A tournament that excludes a conference champion is not a tournament that can legitimately call itself a national championship. We already have the NIT. The main reason so many people scoff at the CFP is that it doesn't include enough teams to truly be a national championship. Why? Because the NCAA doesn't have the stones to tell the P5 what's what. |
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Post by 00hmh on Dec 7, 2020 16:12:02 GMT -6
What is what? The NCAA represents 100's of schools not eligible for the "National Championship" in D1. The P5 is creating a new division in FB, and my guess soon enough in BB. We'll see...
The National Championship in football only includes a couple of more conferences eligible with NONE of those additional conferences guaranteed a game in a playoff.
The point is that the P5 would perhaps add a conference. Or not.
They rebrand the new tournament as whatever brand they establish in football and they just have no reason to justify it to the NCAA.
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Post by villagepub on Dec 7, 2020 16:29:12 GMT -6
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Post by 00hmh on Dec 7, 2020 18:00:01 GMT -6
That will be a joke.
Funding levels, scholarships, recruiting rules. Academic support, rights money for players, eligibility.
MAC schools cannot compete on the present levels. "Reorganization" may result in a couple of G5 conferences surviving.
Maybe 100 teams?
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