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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2788147, member: 5798"] Do we know that for sure? Maybe not. But if so, that is a logistical problem that can be resolved. Given the 3 hour time difference between the east and west coast, for the first two days, start the first games at 10:30 am (1:30 est) then every 2 hours after that. The last game would start at 5:30/8:30. Two floors means the games are simultaneously. If your team's game starts at 8:30 pm est, that's not unreasonable. Another cure for that problem is to have all east and south regional teams play first (earlier in the day) to offset the time difference. Teams in the mid-west and western regions can play in the later start times. The last 2 days, the games could start at 12:30/3:30 and 3:30/6:30. An additional venue could be used to enable more games to be played simultaneously, but that would probably hurt attendance because of the inconvenience of traveling back and forth between sites. Every coach and every player would get to see every other sweet 16 team play in person if they chose to. To pull this off, ESPN may have to work with the ncaa just a bit. Since it's never going to happen, what do you suggest? ESPN would save a ton of money because of the need of only one crew of technicians to set up and monitor their broadcasting equipment. Instead of having 4 crews at 4 different venues. They would save salaries, hotel accommodations, meals and gas. This is not my brain child, but I would like to see them try it. If it doesn't work, go back to the way it is now, games at sites with low attendance that don't show s profit. You can't please everyone. There will be those that will not come because they feel it's too far, but then there are those that have never been to a regional game that would attend this weekend event. For the real wcbb fan, this would be Nirvana . [/QUOTE]

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