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If UConn somehow wins this thing (I honestly have them falling to Michigan St in the Great 8 at MSG in my bracket), they should show the world how UConn feels. As Emmert and the head of the basketball committee comes up to give UConn the trophy, first 1) invite Jim Calhoun up to join them (Emmert & co. would go nuclear) and 2) arrange everyone on the podium so that it looks like UConn is giving everyone the single finger salute. If UConn is going to go down, go down in a blaze of glory and have fun while doing it.
 
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Mr C. I'd go one better. I wouldn't send anyone up to accept the award. Just tell them to mail it to us. By the way, I doubt we get anywhere near the Final Four, but if a miracle happens, that's what we ought to do.
 
If SMU getting bumped was the only snub, I would have not thought it was a big deal. SMU put themselves into trouble by losing to Houston. But this was an across the board snub solely targeted at the AAC. I actually don't have a huge problem with the other seeds, and NC State seems like an odd choice but the committee often seems to take a flyer on the last school or two.

The treat of the AAC stands out as the only unusual aspect of this Committee's work.
 
I wonder if the AAC conference tournament atmosphere and attendance had anything to do with the seedings debacle. AAC fans essentially decided the conference tourney wasn't worth attending. That couldn't have helped. The arena was >half empty except for the UConn-Memphis game and once Memphis lost the atmosphere was ehh.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
If SMU getting bumped was the only snub, I would have not thought it was a big deal. SMU put themselves into trouble by losing to Houston. But this was an across the board snub solely targeted at the AAC. I actually don't have a huge problem with the other seeds, and NC State seems like an odd choice but the committee often seems to take a flyer on the last school or two.

The treat of the AAC stands out as the only unusual aspect of this Committee's work.
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Nelson, why dont you run for governor of this great state under the platform of ESPN getting us into the P5 or simply get out of Bristol? I will vote for you!
 
Dogdeacon said:
I wonder if the AAC conference tournament atmosphere and attendance had anything to do with the seedings debacle. AAC fans essentially decided the conference tourney wasn't worth attending. That couldn't have helped. The arena was >half empty except for the UConn-Memphis game and once Memphis lost the atmosphere was ehh.
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To be honest, I was quite surprised at the attendance of the final. I didn't expect that many people.
 
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upstater said:
To be honest, I was quite surprised at the attendance of the final. I didn't expect that many people.
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I didn't attend that one, maybe the Memphis fans got over their loss and decided to come out for that game?
Very disappointing attendance Thursday and Friday.
 
djct1999 said:
Nelson, why dont you run for governor of this great state under the platform of ESPN getting us into the P5 or simply get out of Bristol? I will vote for you!
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Our politicians have been useless in helping us. I am not a big Mitch McConnell fan, but he went to bat for Louisville in a big way with the Big 12, and almost knocked out WVU who had a several month lead.

The single biggest threat to UConn's university, not just its athletic program, is the current conference affiliation. UConn has to end it as soon as possible.
 
Dogdeacon said:
I didn't attend that one, maybe the Memphis fans got over their loss and decided to come out for that game?
Very disappointing attendance Thursday and Friday.
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It looked like Louisville/Cincy fans to me. I'm sure the upper deck was empty, but there were only a smattering of empties on the bottom. Ville traveled well.
 
attendance is a huge issue for these tournaments. Most of them don't sell out. Even the ACC has struggled with attendance outside of North Carolina. There were tickets available to the Big 10 final Friday night. If the AAC really wanted to be innovative, it would explore a different approach. I sort of like awarding the automatic bid to the regular season champ, but rather than play a league tournament in the traditional sense, play maybe 2 extra games that count toward the league standings. The first game would be 1-12, 2-11 and so on, but the final would be 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc. It would set up some pretty interesting scenarios, and could really create movement in the standings. I know it would probably not be doable under current rules, but I'd treat it as an experiment, much as the Big East did with the 6 foul rule and the Big 10 (I think) did with the video rule at one time. It is totally nuts to play in front of 8800 as the A-10 did. Heck, the Big didn't even publish attendance figures for its tournament games before the championship, which leads you to suspect there were a few seats available there too.
 
August_West said:
I wonder that if we lost to Memphis and smu won 2 games that uconn would've been out! I'm only half joking. There seems to be an axe to grind with the AAC .
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I don't know about an axe but there seems to be a concerted effort to keep non P5 teams in their place. The AAC made a little too much noise this year. This seems to be a concerted effort to squelch that.
 
The most reasonable conclusion is something we all knew there is bias in the selection process. It's probably not overt but i don't think you can look at how the aac teams were seeded and in what region they were put in and argue that was just random variance in the process.

This year I don't think the draw we got was particularly bad but it's worrying for the future what happens if cincy memphis and/or uconn have a down year do we become a 1-2 bid conference?
 
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Louisville is partly to blame here. They are the measuring stick for the conference as a whole and played two ranked teams OOC and lost to both of them. That killed the RPI they carried into conference play.

A-10 was over rewarded for early season play.
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LOL, if that was the case, they didn't pay any f---g attention to the arc of Louisville's season. We lost the 2 time Regional MOP in Behanen and the services of our 6th man, Kevin Ware about one third into the season. If they were paying such rapt and close attention to Embiid's back, you think they could pause for a sec and realize what was put together to compensate for a loss like that in Louisville's case. 2 of the losses occurred during the weirdness of Chane's ultimate dismissal and temporarily tore the team up. After that, the arc begins and evolves. UofL's OOC losses occurred during a period of serious turmoil.

I don't care and I know you guys don't give a dam either, lol. But I would like to think someone would appreciate that UofL developed their current rotations as adaptations to team important personnel losses, which as far as I am concerned should have raised their status. I blame the same willing inattention we are all complaining about towards the AAC.

The committee seemed to me to be short on basketball people and large on accountants.
 
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Senore said:
LOL, if that was the case, they didn't pay any f---g attention to the arc of Louisville's season. We lost the 2 time Regional MOP in Behanen and the services of our 6th man, Kevin Ware about one third into the season. If they were paying such rapt and close attention to Embiid's back, you think they could pause for a sec and realize what was put together to compensate for a loss like that in Louisville's case. 2 of the losses occurred during the weirdness of Chane's ultimate dismissal and temporarily tore the team up. After that, the arc begins and evolves. UofL's OOC losses occurred during a period of serious turmoil.

I don't care and I know you guys don't give a dam either, lol. But I would like to think someone would appreciate that UofL developed their current rotations as adaptations to team important personnel losses, which as far as I am concerned should have raised their status. I blame the same willing inattention we are all complaining about towards the AAC.

The committee seemed to me to be short on basketball people and large on accountants.
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The funny thing is that we hear incessantly about how Florida didn't have their backup guard Hill when they played UConn, but no one ever mentioned that UConn had our second leading scorer Daniels injured for 3 games during the heart of conference play. It was so odd that not even the announcers of our game against Cincy mentioned that he wasn't playing. That's actually an indictment of Daniels, now that I think about it, but nonetheless, he was our second leading scorer.
 
freescooter said:
Mr C. I'd go one better. I wouldn't send anyone up to accept the award. Just tell them to mail it to us. By the way, I doubt we get anywhere near the Final Four, but if a miracle happens, that's what we ought to do.
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Ha ha. I can see it now. What you need to do is take the other 3 NC trophies to the Final. Put them in a plastic garbage can with a couple of their tops sticking out. That way you can look at Emmert and go: "Just throw it over there with the rest of them."
 
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