Basketball relegation system???

[geordi]

So, considering the mighty ACC enjoyed 4 teams in the tournament this year with only one going past the first round, the Stanford coach is encouraging a relegation system such as soccer leagues use. Not a bad idea. I'll bet those folks that blew up conferences over the past twenty years hadn't considered the fact that, in a league with 16, 18, 20 members, some of the teams that came up with a tournament resume in their old league (think Cuse, e.g.) would be in the bottom half of their new league. I wonder if the money is worth it how. KInda be fun to see UNC fighting to remain in the first division though. Here's the article. What do you think???

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[Palatine]

no

 

[bendm]

America doesnt believe in the concept of relegation

 

[Fishy]

There isn’t a coach alive, including the Stanford coach, who would want relegation.

And it’s for the same reason why coaches want the NCAA expanded to 800 teams….hard to get fired for not making the tournament when everyone makes the tournament. (Also, bonuses.)

 

[Chuck]

Even if it's a good idea, it's non-starter. We can't even get our professional soccer to go with promotion/relegation even though it was started with the European model to copy. There's just no way the little guys in P4 conferences would accept this (because they'd most likely be relegated) and the big guys don't want it because they don't want to give the little guys a chance to beat them.

 

[PNolanFan]

Honestly, I think college football is the only sport where relegation makes sense. I would be so much happier rooting for UConn to win advancement from league 3 to league 2 rather than whatever we have. And like if your a wisconsin fan wouldnt it be more fun trying to win league 1 to make the premier league rather than just going 8-4 every year with the understanding that our loftiest goal is to get slaughtered in the Big 10 championship game. And like if your a big big program you can just play in the premier league and make more money than you can spend

 

[Palatine]

Relegation is really the caste system. There are a few power teams at the top. They take all the spoils. There are a number of teams at the bottom that bob around the relegation line scraping crumbs for eternity. And there are the limbo teams in the middle. They can survive but they are not meant to thrive. It is like an internal farm system where the best players move up to the top teams while the teams in the middle are in the business of selling players rather than winning titles.

It's ugly.

 

[mussels]

If I understand it correctly, seems like something like this in the Big East could help UConn. Splitting the conference into two divisions (defacto upper and lower) would result in more quadrant one games and less UConn/DePaul.

(bracing myself for the inevitable barage of comments from folks that didn’t read the article)

 

[aburks41]

There already is something even worse than a relegation system. It's called Power Conferences. They would never allow the "have nots" to join in on their fun

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The biggest reason something along the lines of promotion/relegation wouldn't work with men's D-1 basketball is that there is far too much turnover from year to year to fairly apply it to any school.

Look at where we finished the 2009-2010 season (and where the alleged experts predicted we would end up in 2010-2011). I imagine that a case could have been made for relegating us to the second tier of the BE if a system like that existed.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

Promotion/Relegation can only work in professional sports where you know what your roster will be from a year to year basis.