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<blockquote data-quote="RML" data-source="post: 1832497" data-attributes="member: 23028"><p>I would be thrilled with a top 12 ranking at the end of the year regardless of whether we make some playoff. (In '05, I was happier with a year end unanimous no.1 ranking in hoops than I was with making the NCAA tournament. In fact, I toyed with suggesting that we just skip the tournament, since it was unnecessary to decide who was the best team that year.)</p><p>The point I was trying to make about premiere teams was that those teams getting a month longer season every year increases the divide between the haves and the have nots, not that it affects who exactly wins the playoffs in any given year. In other words, there will be eight or so teams who make the playoffs every single year (and thus get a month longer season than most other teams) and the rest of us will be shooting for the spots in a playoff where would need to beat three of those perpetual extended season teams, three weeks in a row. I suppose some outsider team will someday do it (and become legendary for doing it), but in terms of the same teams winning it every year, I think this system will make it worse, not better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RML, post: 1832497, member: 23028"] I would be thrilled with a top 12 ranking at the end of the year regardless of whether we make some playoff. (In '05, I was happier with a year end unanimous no.1 ranking in hoops than I was with making the NCAA tournament. In fact, I toyed with suggesting that we just skip the tournament, since it was unnecessary to decide who was the best team that year.) The point I was trying to make about premiere teams was that those teams getting a month longer season every year increases the divide between the haves and the have nots, not that it affects who exactly wins the playoffs in any given year. In other words, there will be eight or so teams who make the playoffs every single year (and thus get a month longer season than most other teams) and the rest of us will be shooting for the spots in a playoff where would need to beat three of those perpetual extended season teams, three weeks in a row. I suppose some outsider team will someday do it (and become legendary for doing it), but in terms of the same teams winning it every year, I think this system will make it worse, not better. [/QUOTE]
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