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ACC Plans To Propose All Inclusive NCAA Hoop Tournament

I like the idea. It would extend the tourney a week to ten days. It would result in 97 first round games. The second round would be played at 64 different sites rather than 16. The Dance would be made available as a live event to hundreds of thousands of BB fans across the US. Extended television coverage. Most importantly, it would be a financial bonanza to the athletic department budgets awash in red ink. It's not about fairness or competition, it's all about the $$$.
 
So what does this add 2 more weeks to the tournament? Most good team will get a bye. Seems like it would generate a lot more interest in the entire country. I don't mind it.
 
Hell, make it interesting and fair to every team. Put 353 team names in a hat. Mix well. Pull them out one at a time for their place in the tourney. Luck of the draw for seeding and location. Imagine the number of viewers to watch that show. Imagine if Coach K has to play a first round game against Gonzaga at Gonzaga. Make it a spectacle and have some fun. The cream should rise to the top, if they are truly a top team.
 
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Anybody who still does their office pool on paper would have a little booklet to fill out.
 
Just cancel the regular season completely except for the two UNC v Duke games which don't count but must be played for the Dickie V Memorial Trophy . The Deacs get a first round tournament home game vs the Screaming Aardvarks of E. Tinookee Tech. It's just a one game season for our heroes, but our share of the NCAAT proceeds nets a cool $8500 and the guys get really nice Reebok totebags as participation swag so their feelings aren't hurt too badly. We save a ton of money on team laundry and travel so the athletic dept doesn't have to furlough any of our crucial administrative staff until field hockey season starts. Tuition gets capped at $90k for virtual classes only. President Hatch invests the savings in WF Logo masks for incoming freshmen in place of laptops to balance the budget, and moves us into the top 20 best schools ranking by starting a bold shrubbery planting program to increase campus oxygen levels while the students are at home for the semester . It's perfect for us. Thanks Coach K.
 
It the proposal is adopted, a lot of coaches are going to cash in on the NCAA appearance bonus in their contracts. Going to be interesting to watch some schools try to back-peddle on paying that incentive.
 
BlackjackMc said:
Hell, make it interesting and fair to every team. Put 353 team names in a hat. Mix well. Pull them out one at a time for their place in the tourney. Luck of the draw for seeding and location. Imagine the number of viewers to watch that show. Imagine if Coach K has to play a first round game against Gonzaga at Gonzaga. Make it a spectacle and have some fun. The cream should rise to the top, if they are truly a top team.
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Just use the KenPom rankings and let RJKarl go nuts.
Seriously, I think there would have to be regional approach to minimize travel concerns.
 
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Just use the KenPom rankings and let RJKarl go nuts.
Seriously, I think there would have to be regional approach to minimize travel concerns.
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Not a problem for a regional approach. Jeff Sagarin developed a regional approach to the tourney years ago. 4 team districts based on the shortest distance possible between teams. It's not on his website at present. He usually waits until BB season to include it. Deacs were in a district with UNCG, Elon and UNC. Since High Point has gone D1 they might replace UNC.
 
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Wonder about the timing of this tournament.

Has the proposal been thought out to the point that conference tournaments will be eliminated for next season, and the all-inclusive tourney will start when the conference tournaments would have been held?

Or, is the thought that the season will just be extended on the back end so instead of the NCAA CG being played in the beginning of April the tourney goes to mid-April or later?

Or is there some thought that the early rounds of the tournament would be played in the middle of the season (not sure how that could happen, unless a team could be eliminated from the NCAAs, while still having regular season or conference tournament games left on the schedule)?

If one of the goals for the event is to recover some of the lost revenue from the TV contracts, so input from the NCAA's TV "partners" would have to be part of the conversation.
 
BlackjackMc said:
Not a problem for a regional approach. Jeff Sagarin developed a regional approach to the tourney years ago. 4 team districts based on the shortest distance possible between teams. It's not on his website at present. He usually waits until BB season to include it. Deacs were in a district with UNCG, Elon and UNC. Since High Point has gone D1 they might replace UNC.
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I like it. For the first rounds, set it up as a play-in with those non-Wake schools and lower ranked "local" mid-major schools such as Radford, Liberty, App State, and ETSU.
 
Kinda coming around to it a little more after reading more on it. With teams not playing in tournaments and probably only playing conference games, it will make it hard to seed teams.
 
get ready for Bucknell vs. Northern Iowa in the second round. someone please pinch me.
 
BlackjackMc said:
I like the idea. It would extend the tourney a week to ten days. It would result in 97 first round games. The second round would be played at 64 different sites rather than 16. The Dance would be made available as a live event to hundreds of thousands of BB fans across the US. Extended television coverage. Most importantly, it would be a financial bonanza to the athletic department budgets awash in red ink. It's not about fairness or competition, it's all about the $$$.
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And then football will see what they are missing and expand the playoff system.
 
There are already 116 teams playing in post season tournaments with the CBI and NIT. Obviously those two tournaments would go away if everybody was in a giant NCAA tournament.
 
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