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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3910025, member: 199"] The fact is the P5 (football) conferences have a huge advantage in athletic department budget over all other colleges/universities and it shows in a general way across most team sports in their facilities and their ability to recruit top coaches and top HS talent. There are of course a number of P5 universities that do not invest heavily in excellence in other team sports, and some that do not invest heavily excellence in football, and there are some non-P5 universities that do invest heavily in excellence in certain team sports including football. BUT, as a rule, using 'P5' to designate high budget athletic departments vs other athletic departments works as a pretty good dividing line in football and men's basketball and women's basketball. The OP was about the experience for the lowest seeded teams to end their season in a drubbing and how sad it was for their players to play in an NCAA tournament. And I think you could ask every one of the players and every member of their families and get a 99% positive response on the experience of being beaten by 40 or 60 or whatever. Just have to look at the excitement displayed at Colgate when they invited Breanna to come thrash them by 44 - they had a blast and a much better experience than Ohio State invited her the same year with the same result! Or Nevada inviting Gabby to beat them by 31 vs Michigan State the previous game who lost by 34. Not to mention Texas and Miss State who both met Uconn in the second weekend of successive NCAAs and lost by 51 and 60 respectively - did they wish they had lost the round before so they wouldn't have been embarrassed in their last game of the season? [/QUOTE]

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