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The tournament is practically bulletproof (though the SEC and Big Ten may someday test that theory). The big tv contract never had anything to do with us, the fans who focus year round. It was always about the casuals. And the casuals couldn’t care less about the portal and new teams every...

The world really is flat.

Tough day for providence. This is a clear sign that their program has a ceiling. No one will ever be more of a PC guy than Cooley, and he just left. After the last few years, a PC fan could convince themselves that PC was an upper level Big East program, now it’s clear that will never happen...

The metrics are not perfect, so it’s very reasonable to poke holes in them. Also, it does come down to a debate about mediocre teams, so you can say what does it matter. But at the end of the day, getting a bid matters, even for mediocre teams, so the metrics should be scrutinized. What I...

We are lucky we had him. Honestly, I don’t think anything can be better said than that. We are lucky we had him. I’m 44, I’ve never met him but he is something like an uncle to me. He has just always been a part of my life. My greatest sports happiness in life has been delivered by Jim and...

I’m hesitant to just throw JW under the bus here. There is not an administrator in the world who could stop JB from doing what he did today if JB decided he did not like the plan. It’s entirely possible that this is locked in. JW said thank you, and now it’s time to move on. If JB didn’t think...

Relegation systems just won’t work in the US. Too unpredictable from a financial and planning standpoint.

Feel like this is trending towards a Nike and Adidas type situation, but with ESPN and Fox. or maybe more accurately national league and American League in MLB. They’re both gonna build junior NFL’s, with espn based on the sec and Fox based on the b1g. They’ll come together for a playoff based...

If I’m ole miss or miss st, I’m thinking long and hard about this one. The contract they have now already gives them more money than they’ll need, more money is always nice, but it won’t really change their situations. But if OU and UT come on board, those schools are pushed essentially to...

If the SEC really goes after a junior NFL approach, then AAU and CIC will become nice little speed bumps on the way to bigger television contracts for the B1G.

If there really is a blow up the world end game here, there’s a few SEC teams that should be worried. The logical extension of all of this is a junior NFL, and like the NFL, you need a financial justification to have a franchise in a given area. What value does Ole Miss, Mississippi St, South...

The craziest part to me is that moderna and Pfizer vaccines were designed in a matter of hours in January of last year. Before most people were really focused on covid even becoming a thing. The Indian variant is obviously a huge threat and unknown at this point. Will our vaccines work against...

Had second dose of Moderna Friday morning. Was expecting the worst based on various second dose stories I’ve heard. Turned out to be not that bad. Basically like the last day of getting over a cold. A little achy, a little tired, but good enough to get up and do some things for a bit before...

The clot risk appears to be focused on women 18-49. I haven’t seen how many vaccines were administered in that group. So the odds are less than 1 in a million, but who knows how much less.

How’s his Russian?

Do we know that playing at SU is actually something that is on the table for Jimmy? Or is this just board speculation?

First dose of moderna last Friday. Muscle soreness at the injection spot for 2 days, gone now. Was a little tired Friday night, but nothing extreme. Fully expecting a different experience for the next one. We’ll see.

Heard this morning that Baylor had beat teams ranked at the end of the reg season #1,2,6,9,10,11,12,13,18, and 21. There was definitely an elite team in the game last night, the general consensus just picked the wrong one. Would Gonzaga be undefeated against that sched? Last night says...

That is certainly something that could have happened.

The first game between these two getting canceled was the best thing to happen to Gonzaga. If Baylor smoked them early in the year, which they likely would have, the narrative would have been another close but not quite Gonzaga team. Instead they were a juggernaut all year, and Gonzaga had...

I don’t understand why good players go to Gonzaga. 14 of their Conf. games every season are a joke. The other 4 are 80-20 prop at worst. they get some good non Conf games, but the rest of the season is a joke.

With Gonzaga -8, I’m ok with this.

Don’t know how the refs managed to control themselves and not call a foul. Reg season that’s an anticipation foul all the way

Every player on UCLA signed expecting to compete for national titles. This ain’t like VCU as an 11 just happy to be there.

Gonzaga is way more Timme dependent than I would have thought.

It combines my two theories for this tourney. Baylor will get to the finals and Gonzaga will roll everyone they play.

Is the rule change to no sitting out when transferring a one year covid thing, or is it permanent?

They’ll never hire him but Scott Drew would be a great hire.

Amen. Built an absolute juggernaut at Gonzaga. Could even be a lifetime achievement for what he has done there. Anyone else winning it this year should apologize and give it to Few.

This will be a really interesting search. The staff they have now has not been killing it, these last couple years have been rough by UNC standards. Do they really want to hire one of those guys?

Unfortunately yes.

The current transfer situation is vastly different than what we are used to. I fully expect Kadary to be one of the most successful transfers out that we have ever had. That being said, we’ll see plenty of highly successful transfers coming in too. It’s just the nature of the beast these days.

You must be mistaken. From reading this thread I’m pretty confident that Kadary’s list is the Lakers, Nets, Clippers, and maybe the Bucks.

Sht happens. We lost a really good player, and that sucks. Almost immediately we signed what could become a really good player. This kid is not a nobody. He was a top 100, 4 star player. There is talent to work with. He knows buddy and joe, and apparently liked playing with them enough to come...

This is probably the biggest issue for JB going forward. 80s JB would thrive in this environment. Just roll the balls out and let them play. Now obviously he didn’t just do that, but those teams were more free flowing. The zone brings in restrictions on how you play, and these kids come from...

How many times has JB beaten out Hop for a recruit?

OSU not paying enough attention to Grimes. That kid is gonna kill them

This source needs to be dropped if they’re in QGs inner circle. Testing the waters is smart. ‘I think he’s ready’ sounds like the words of someone wanting to get paid in the short term.

I think the selling point is NBA connections. He doesn’t seem like someone who will be killing it in recruiting, but selling his connections to the league will be attractive to top kids.

How’s his Russian?

I look at the AG situation differently. The kid got a starting spot right away, and kept it even though he was a net negative during the most important part of the season. JB gave him every opportunity to get right. That kind of loyalty should earn credibility with anyone looking for a chance...

Was Houston handed the easiest (by seed) path to a final four in tourney history? 15, 10, 11, 12. Gonna feel a little bad for them later tonight when they blow it.

Agreed. Gives you the possession arrow for later of the ball at the start the second half. Like both of those better than the opening tip.

We don’t need them to be wrong the majority of the time. To win this game they only need to be wrong once.

If the line is based on a season long system, it’s going to under rate us. We’re a better team than a month or two months ago.

Titus (maybe Tate) said one their core beliefs of this season is that Houston is massively over rated. So, ya know, good with the bad.

Marek may end up one of the most under rated orange of all time. obviously everyone sees that as the primary center he’s important, but he brings soooooo much to the table. Dribbling the ball up court, unbelievable passes for a center (seriously his passing is excellent for a guard, but for a...

This statement. I mean, that’s crazy, but it’s true.

And the WVU game was the prime slot on Sunday afternoon/early evening.

So ESPN says this is the first time 2 PAC 12 schools have ever played one another in the NCAA tournament. I wonder if that excludes the PAC 8/10 portion of their history. Because that would be pretty pathetic if they never had 2 teams from that conference play in the tourney before.