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<blockquote data-quote="grue2" data-source="post: 2059151" data-attributes="member: 747155"><p>I seriously doubt that the exposure from participating in the the second class tournament will make the students more money. Anyone who matters has already seen these players play a lot of games against mediocre competition already (the season). They are not going to learn anything significant by watching them play in the consolation tournament. </p><p></p><p>I'd also hope there are still real students like Goode. I'm not going to penalize the real student to help (or not) the fake student.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The NIT doesn't pay because:</p><p>1) It runs in parallel to the NCAA and people are already overloaded on (better) games</p><p>2) The teams in the NIT are not that good, so people are not that interested.</p><p></p><p>I expect both of these will still be true for the new tournament. The P5 teams may draw a bit larger audience, since each school likely has a larger dedicated fan base. I don't expect the earnings to be significant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grue2, post: 2059151, member: 747155"] I seriously doubt that the exposure from participating in the the second class tournament will make the students more money. Anyone who matters has already seen these players play a lot of games against mediocre competition already (the season). They are not going to learn anything significant by watching them play in the consolation tournament. I'd also hope there are still real students like Goode. I'm not going to penalize the real student to help (or not) the fake student. The NIT doesn't pay because: 1) It runs in parallel to the NCAA and people are already overloaded on (better) games 2) The teams in the NIT are not that good, so people are not that interested. I expect both of these will still be true for the new tournament. The P5 teams may draw a bit larger audience, since each school likely has a larger dedicated fan base. I don't expect the earnings to be significant. [/QUOTE]
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