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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 4911932, member: 6979"]
i think from the NCAA perspective...from the business of making money from college sports...

what matters?

eyeballs.

what lowers the number of eyeballs? blowouts. noncompetitive games.

what increases ratings? brand name teams, buzzer beaters, close games...

if I am picking an NCAA team, yeah, I want the team that plays in close games.  And I want the refs that ref close games.

my suspicion is that all of this stuff with NET and quads and all this stuff ...is really about that.

and SU benefitted a bit from this at times for sure...I think the storyline of Buddy and his Dad was too good to pass up from a marketing perspective...and the NCAA was rewarded for including them that year they made a run with a dubious record.

Overall, keep things vague enough...while also maintaining a facade of objectivity...and they can do what they really want to do...increase profits as much as possible. They cant predict hpw a tournament will go but they can do their best to make it exciting.
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