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Post by Pantherholic on Mar 11, 2017 8:07:15 GMT -6
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Mar 11, 2017 9:22:47 GMT -6
I really thought the Vegas16 would be great being played in Vegas two weeks after the brackets came out. I guess I was really wrong. CBI and CIT need to be shut down as well. NCAA and the NIT are more than enough. I'm also a big fan of regular season champs who don't make the "big dance" getting an auto-bid to the NIT.
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Post by nickpanther on Mar 20, 2017 0:06:50 GMT -6
frankly you could combine the CBI and CIt into the NIT and expand it to 64 or so teams.give bids to regulsr season winners and tourney finalists who dont win. so, that would mean you might get one or 2 teams with losing records, but upsets happen.
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Post by mkehoops on Mar 20, 2017 7:21:19 GMT -6
frankly you could combine the CBI and CIt into the NIT and expand it to 64 or so teams.give bids to regulsr season winners and tourney finalists who dont win. so, that would mean you might get one or 2 teams with losing records, but upsets happen. I was thinking this also. Get rid of these small tournaments and make the NIT more important. Instead of the "sweet 16" call it the "vegas 16" and play that round as well as the round of 8 in Vegas. Then either play out the rest of the tournament in Vegas or move back to MSG for the semifinals/finals. |
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Post by Pantherholic on Mar 20, 2017 7:54:15 GMT -6
It'll never happen for several reasons but one way to make the NIT more relevant is to give the winner of the tournament an auto bid to the NCAA tournament next season. UEFA did this with the Europa League, the NIT equivalent to the Champions League, and English teams have begun competing past the group stage as the incentive to win is significantly greater.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 20, 2017 8:38:55 GMT -6
It'll never happen for several reasons but one way to make the NIT more relevant is to give the winner of the tournament an auto bid to the NCAA tournament next season. UEFA did this with the Europa League, the NIT equivalent to the Champions League, and English teams have begun competing past the group stage as the incentive to win is significantly greater. This is that kind of awesome, genius out-of-the-box thinking that will never...e-e-e-e-ever... be brought into the NCAA. |
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Post by skrapheap on Mar 20, 2017 12:00:30 GMT -6
It'll never happen for several reasons but one way to make the NIT more relevant is to give the winner of the tournament an auto bid to the NCAA tournament next season. UEFA did this with the Europa League, the NIT equivalent to the Champions League, and English teams have begun competing past the group stage as the incentive to win is significantly greater. This is that kind of awesome, genius out-of-the-box thinking that will never...e-e-e-e-ever... be brought into the NCAA. On the contrary. This kind of innovation can very easily be adopted by the NCAA. All you have to do is persuade them they can make money from it. |
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Post by Pantherholic on Mar 20, 2017 19:03:17 GMT -6
This is that kind of awesome, genius out-of-the-box thinking that will never...e-e-e-e-ever... be brought into the NCAA. On the contrary. This kind of innovation can very easily be adopted by the NCAA. All you have to do is persuade them they can make money from it. The problem is if the NIT winner has a horrible season that next year and screws over a P5 bubble team, this incentive is gone in a heartbeat. GW won it last year & their coach resigned during the season. Had they gone belly up the rest of the year and bumped USC/Wake Forest/Providence/Kansas St out, P5 schools will demand to have it removed immediately. They don't care about what's fair, they only care about what's in their best interest. |
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