CBS should fire announcer

[DB for POY]

watching the Big Eleven Championship game on CBS and one of the annoucers (Packer I think) just made one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. He said the selection commitee should look at what teams and conferences did in the last 5 tournaments to give out bids. In other words if you haven't won in the tournament in the last 5 years your team or conference should not get any bids.

[bigbearfan]

who said that? i've got the freaking weather on CBS up here telling me about damn tornados. geehs. :bash:

[DawgFan]

In that case thank the Salukis.

But, a better idea would be for somebody to run over Nantz and Packer with a truck.

[MSU Bleeds Maroon]

watching the Big Eleven Championship game on CBS and one of the annoucers just made one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. He said the selection commitee should look at what teams and conferences did in the last 5 tournaments to give out bids. In other words if you haven't won in the tournament in the last 5 years your team or conference should not get any bids.

That comment was made by the illustrious Billy pACCker. He's the only talking head on television who can make Digger Phelps seem rational by comparison.

[saluki42]

Maybe to give out bids they should look at how the players from the teams in the last five years are doing in the NBA. Based on NBA stats teams with more superstar alumni will be rewarded.

[shootingbear]

this is the same guy who made fun of MSU when alford was our coach, was it not? who made fun of springfield and how it was a hick town and he couldnt get a suit - unless it was in NY (he got it at bach rack in spfd).

[MSU Bleeds Maroon]

this is the same guy who made fun of MSU when alford was our coach, was it not? who made fun of springfield and how it was a hick town and he couldnt get a suit - unless it was in NY (he got it at bach rack in spfd).

You're thinking of Al McGuire. Father Time got his payback on Al -- the grubworms who ate the grubworms who ate McGuire assumed room temperature a long time ago.

[UNI MadCat]

You'd think after all of this in the past two weeks you could just let it roll.

I didnt agree with him either but you didnt post his whole point. What he was saying is that the big schools are still always the ones in the Sweet16 and beyond. Showing that no matter how many of the mid-majors you put in, they aren't going to do well. He's way overgeneralizing but its hard to argue he's wrong that the big boys dominate the later rounds.

But still, it doesn't mean they should be the only ones that get the chance. That's what makes this tourney so fun.

[DB for POY]

You'd think after all of this in the past two weeks you could just let it roll.

I didnt agree with him either but you didnt post his whole point. What he was saying is that the big schools are still always the ones in the Sweet16 and beyond. Showing that no matter how many of the mid-majors you put in, they aren't going to do well. He's way overgeneralizing but its hard to argue he's wrong that the big boys dominate the later rounds.

But still, it doesn't mean they should be the only ones that get the chance. That's what makes this tourney so fun.

sure you can say the BCS has dominated the later rounds but what have the BCS bubble teams done in the tournament compared to other bubble teams?

[MSU Bleeds Maroon]

But still, it doesn't mean they should be the only ones that get the chance. That's what makes this tourney so fun.

And there's the real answer to Billy's squealing.

The NCAA Tournament did not become a billion-dollar machine by guaranteeing a bunch of spots to the BCS conferences. The Tournament's first weekend -- 75% of its games -- aren't about the big boys. They're about upsets, underdogs, Cinderellas, and eye-popping finishes.

Of course, Billy pACCker isn't the only one who wants to kill the golden goose. The BCS conferences don't need the money -- they'd be perfectly content to have their own little tournament, if they thought they could get equal ratings for it.