I’m sorry, but I couldn’t resist posting this:
— Boeheim said Syracuse was worthy of being No. 1, but he said there are five or six that are good enough to be in the top spot. That being said, Boeheim said that a team other than those five or six could win the title. That’s why the NCAA Tournament is so fantastic. Boeheim thinks that the field of 64 should expand. He said there will be 10 teams left out of the Big Dance that could win at least two games in the Tournament.
— Dan asked Boeheim if he liked the BCS. “There’s only one sport in college that doesn’t have a playoff system,” Boeheim said. “It’s kind of hard to believe it’s one of our two biggest sports.” Boeheim thinks a college football playoff system would be great.
Yeah, but would it be fantastic?
Get The Picture 
Boeheim does playoff opponents so many favors with his comments. When you’re expanding the field merely to allow teams who admittedly have no business winning the championship, but who “could win at least two games in the Tournament,” you’ve suddenly moved the goalposts. Now, participation in the championship process is warranted merely because one could win SOME games in the process – not that one should/could win the championship, or has earned the right to play for it in the regular season.
Boeheim, et. al. — stay away from my sport.
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“10 teams left out of the Big Dance that could win at least two games in the Tournament”
Does this speak more to the volatility in the outcomes of a one-and-done style tournament, or the fact that the overwhelming majority of college basketball teams are just average? From what I can recall, the bubble teams are teams that were .500-ish in conference with no real quality wins out of conference. Like Georgia in 2006-2007.
You have to ask yourself, “What is the purpose of this tournament?” Is it to decide a national champion? If so, then why are we concerned with the 75th team that might win one or two games, but has no reasonable shot at making it unscathed through the entirety of the tournament?
I think the purpose of the tournament at this point is to pad the wallets of those involved, with crowning a national champion a nice little side effect. Why don’t we have one of these in college football?
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“It’s kind of hard to believe it’s one of our two biggest sports.”
What would be harder for Jimbo to believe is that college basketball isn’t one of them.
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Boeheim believes the primary purpose of March Madness is to pad mediocre head coaches’ resumes (as in, “hey, I won a game in the Tournament!”), so they’ll remain gainfully employed.
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Boeheim is hardly qualified to be a spokesperson for CFB playoffs. His attitude about letting everyone in is the antithesis of what a CFB playoff needs…but it might qualify him for a position in the new Cabinet.
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> Boeheim does playoff opponents so
> many favors with his comments.
Heh. No kidding. He is a total numbskull on the issue.
I think the Senator has it right. He wants more people in so coaches have an easier time keeping their jobs.
Saying they won a game or two in the tournament looks good right now, but if they keep dilluting it then it won’t mean much down the road. But that’s someone else’s problem, right Jim?
-Michael
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Um…
“Boeheim said Syracuse was worthy of being No. 1, but he said there are five or six that are good enough to be in the top spot.”
This has got to be a typo, seeing as Syracuse is 18-6.
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