I get all the points here and above, but I still think the location will be the draw. No /s. These are meaningless games to be sure but when I was there for Illinois playing last year (meaningful games then but only 4 teams), the basketball fans absolutely took over the section of the strip by the arena. Now you have 16 teams...much less impactful games but potentially 4x the fans who say "hey, let's go watch our team play in Vegas and have some fun".
New Postseason Tournament Being Discussed
Can not see these teams drawing many people, even if the first roung games are held in home or close to home arenas.
Aside from degenerate gamblers difficult to see much of a TV market for this caliber of basketball. Gee most of the mid-major teams in the coutry can not get significant exposure.
To wrestle control of college basketblall from the NCAA, the networks will have to do better than this.
Aside from degenerate gamblers difficult to see much of a TV market for this caliber of basketball. Gee most of the mid-major teams in the coutry can not get significant exposure.
To wrestle control of college basketblall from the NCAA, the networks will have to do better than this.
Why not just take the top 16 teams that didn’t make the sweet 16, sort them by NET? That would catch some eyeballs. Based off of last year it would look something like…
Purdue v Memphis
Kansas v Iowa
Arizona v Mizzou
Marquette v Texas A&M
Virginia v Iowa State
Baylor v TCU
Duke v Kentucky
Indiana v St Marys
That would get lots of eyeballs. Do it during the week like a 3 day tournament that Monday-Wednesday before the Final 4..or better yet..
Monday/Wednesday/Saturday/Monday before the title game…
Purdue v Memphis
Kansas v Iowa
Arizona v Mizzou
Marquette v Texas A&M
Virginia v Iowa State
Baylor v TCU
Duke v Kentucky
Indiana v St Marys
That would get lots of eyeballs. Do it during the week like a 3 day tournament that Monday-Wednesday before the Final 4..or better yet..
Monday/Wednesday/Saturday/Monday before the title game…
Seems like the basketball equivalent of our football fanbase clamoring for 6 wins so they can play in a crappy bowl game and get a few extra weeks of practice. No reason not to admit that plenty in this fanbase would have watched those bad Groce teams play in this tournament hoping to see a hint of success.
Zorak
- Naperville
Literally everyone else thinks that.
So there's going to be tournament filled with guys that are upset about underperforming in the season, thinking about transferring, with coaches in the hot seat, and they're going to be left in Sin City for a week? What could go wrong..
foby
- Bonnaroo Land
Now take out the one's that are in the wrong conferences and replace them with teams in the right ones and it's still pretty good.
perhaps this trial balloon should be left to float awhile … and then be unceremoniously blasted by a sidewinder as it drifts over the (L)east coast
If you are looking for the best team at the end of the season I would say the NHL//MLB/NBA does a good job.
If you like the excitement that anyone can win the NCAA basketball tournament or NFL is your place. A upset can really change things for the NCAA. There is a lot of luck in being placed in the bracket that falls apart around you or your simply the best. at least the NFL tries and protects the top seeds by playing the lowest seed
Coming next fall on Fox: "Sin City Shooting Sorrows."
Just trying to list off the top of my head who could've been in it from last year, you're right.
Seems like getting sponsorship and advertising revenue at a most conspicuous time in the overall sports byline would be somewhat difficult to achieve , but as you professed , there are enough peeps that would see a happenstance for monetary advancement......
Once again , the basic premise that $$$$ has taken control of the sports and sports betting arena is alive and well.......
Bigtex
- DFW
Nothing to do with ESPN. This is FOX trying to wrestle away more ESPN audience.
From a competitive standpoint, this is a big yawner.
I'm intrigued though, whether there's another agenda here besides milking fans for some extra games. Pure speculation, but I wonder if there are elements in the conferences thinking of a trojan horse to take more direct control of the money in the big dance. Long time ago, didn't the NCAA and the NIT compete with invitations to post-season play?
I'm intrigued though, whether there's another agenda here besides milking fans for some extra games. Pure speculation, but I wonder if there are elements in the conferences thinking of a trojan horse to take more direct control of the money in the big dance. Long time ago, didn't the NCAA and the NIT compete with invitations to post-season play?
Long, long ago, teams could, and did play in both. For a while the tournament champions played (if the same team did not win both). Until ~1970 teams chose which tournament to join. The NCAA ended the competition by saying that any team that declined their invitation was ineligible for any post season play. The NIT eventually sued. The NCAA settled the lawsuit by buying the rights to the NIT up to ~2015.
The NIT field today is roughly: the ~10 conference winners who did not make the NCAA tournament, the ~18 top power 6 teams that did not make the NCAAs, and ~4 other mid-majors. I like how the NIT gives the conference winners a second chance. I'm not a fan of the 2nd rate power 6 teams being included (you lost, deal with it), though they do win ~2/3rds of the time.
I see the proposed tournament as even less interesting than the NIT, which I almost never watch. It is the equivalent of the bowl games before ~Dec 30th. Participation trophies so that corporations can make money, while pulling the students out of class just before/during finals.
I really have to think this is a gambling thing. Minnesota vs Boston College might be a better betting draw than Willam & Mary vs Cal State Chico. And decisions are seemingly being made these days with regards toward gambling sites (see: college football updated injury reports)
throw in the 4 PAC12 team that will soon be part of the B1G 10/Big12 & you are there
