PhatOrange
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pretty boring tournament so far
the NCAA sets the tournament up to purposefully try to create as many upsets as possible...if you havent noticed you havent been paying attentionIt is clear that NET is a bad ranking tool. So many upsets on the first round of NCAA tournament.
need to start weighing the last 10 games much more and weighing the first 10 much less imoMaybe they need to go back to how a team is playing at the end of the year, and not just the entire year.
Especially now with the portal, it takes an almost entire new team time to jell.
they might be making money short term...maybe...but they also just might be "optimizing" this sport into irrelevance!If one team gets upset, is an upset.
If almost half of the teams the NET thinks are the best in the country lose to "inferior" teams, it's a trend.
And it's a huge data point that the NET isn't very good.
It's always been not very good, we just weren't good enough to be upset about it until this year.
Six years of at times ridiculous results and it still really hasn't come under fire the way you would expect.
Probably ESPN is making extra money because of the NET, and they drive almost all sports "controversy" in America.
No ESPN banging the drum, no national conversation.
This is the problem with all publicly run (stock) companies being forced to report their earnings every single quarter.they might be making money short term...maybe...but they also just might be "optimizing" this sport into irrelevance!
all of the actors in NCAABB - programs, players, media, etc...better be careful not to overcook this golden goose...individual greed is having a negative effect on the heath of the sport BIG TIME, imo