Thoughts on Cal's idea
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I think it would be pretty cool, but I imagine it would be hard for a lot of teams. Most teams lose money on basketball already and probably couldn't afford to do another tournament. That is unless the NCAA or sponsors could fund it all.
Also, what kind of tournament would it be? Like a Preseason NIT with a bunch of teams or are we talking about a bunch of smaller tournaments like the ones we currently have in November? It would actually help make the polls more accurate at the start of the season by being more than a guess based on returning players and signed recruits.
Also, what kind of tournament would it be? Like a Preseason NIT with a bunch of teams or are we talking about a bunch of smaller tournaments like the ones we currently have in November? It would actually help make the polls more accurate at the start of the season by being more than a guess based on returning players and signed recruits.
Would be cool to have random 64 team selection and do a tournament.
Edit: not random but based preseason ranking .
There are tournaments that high schools use to tune up such as the bluegrass state games. If USA basketball or some non NCAA entity started a tournament during this period or even in July there isn’t much the NCAA could do about it as long it’s not during a dead period. I think it could be really good for USA basketball to start this bc it could be seen as possible evaluation. Keep the ncaa out of it
If the Rat proposed it last month we would already be starting play.
Well, that rat in Durham won’t like it as he is still searching for his next re-class in August to save his next season.
Cal is for anything that will upstage football. He's at one of the few places in the country that occurs. Outside of Kentucky and North Carolina, ratings would be abysmal.
I don't know about abysmal. I think the rating will be good.
Its also intriguing in terms of late season as well. I think potential is great, wish it can happen.
College basketball is pretty much a four week sport TODAY. Why? Because it only serves a bridge between football, baseball and the NBA playoffs. Competing against the pre-season football hype is an uphill battle at best.
I'm for anything that a) gets college basketball started sooner b) keeps college basketball in the news earlier and more often.
That's just inaccurate. Cal has attempted to help Stoops and bring additional exposure on multiple occasions.
As to your second point: football is still 3 weeks from kickoff and NFL preseason just started. There's only so much news coming out of preseason football practice rn and the majority of it isn't something that takes up TV time.
-let teams start practicing a week earlier
-play a tournament of 16-32 the first week of August.
-This sticks it right in the dead season of sports. NFL hasn't started yet. NBA has ended. MLB isn't in playoff mode yet. NCAAF is a month away.
For god sake, espn has been showing Cornhole, Spikeball, and Tag...yes, competitive TAG on ESPN2 and just now started reruns of the CFB playoffs last year. Yeah, I'll take a highly competitive preseason tournament of the top 16-32 teams in the country while we wait in CFB and the NFL to kickoff.
Preseason football isn't going to overwhelm college basketball tournament against top school .That'll be huge excitement .
The bridge you talk about is real games, not preseason talking hype machine.
The perfect summer -time sport would be all-female bikini curling on lemonade ice. I could watch that all day
Man, that is one dumb take.
Another Kentucky fan who just doesn’t get football - especially in the south.
Nobody watches it in February. What makes you think anybody will tune in in August.
Not as dumb as wanting to have a college basketball tournament in August.
The problem with this argument is that there is viewership for Marquee game in November or December.
For example UK versus Duke beginning the season will gather good viewership. Your argument is that no one will watch Duke versus UK this season
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Not sure why you can't see that's tournament with top team would get respectable viewership.
Actually you should probably heed this advice- better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Why do you keep bringing up football when this tournament would not be competing against it? It isn’t like it’s in the middle of football season it’s in August when not much is happening.
Because he is troll and hates UK football, basketball and baseball. He never has had one positive thing to say about UK.
Hey genius, if nobody watches it in February, then why is almost every game on TV?
And if the same people who aren't watching it in February (like you) aren't watching in August, what damn difference does it make? The only thing that matters to a TV network is whether MORE people will watch it than anything else they have the possibility of broadcasting, with a cost factor thrown in. That's why ESPN broadcasts so many college basketball games in February, and why having live college basketball games in August, when there is a dearth of live sporting events, isn't a totally crazy idea.
Hell, they're now doing extensive coverage of the NBA summer league, with teams that usually feature 1 or 2 guys who are even going to be on NBA rosters in the fall. I don't see why there would be significantly less interest in getting a sneak peek at all the best college teams and players.
Of course, I wouldn't expect someone like you to take a logical view of any of this, as you clearly prefer to just be a jackass. So proceed with that.
Which is why it should start the first week of December when college football ends and we can eliminate conference tournaments (they don't matter for us anyway). Duke and UK should be on ESPN primetime the Tuesday night after CFB conference title games. Makes infinitely more sense. They can do Maui in December too, let those guys go home for Thanksgiving. And they can let teams play up to 4 exhibition game in November against local smaller schools to get ready for the 3.5 month regular season.
One problem I could foresee is selection of participants. The NCAA tournament picks teams based on their season results. A preseason tournament would not have the same criteria for obvious reasons. So, how would the teams be chosen in a way that seems fair enough for everyone?
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@ competitive tag
Are you kidding me? There is no competition for viewership in August. Are you suggesting that most sports fans would rather watch the Mariners play the Orioles in August? C'mon, I know it wouldn't rival March Madness but it would fill the time from the summer blahs and probably gain respectable ratings. Just a thought, more than what you have offered so far. Football is still a couple of weeks away so that is a no brainer.
No I am not kidding you. Like I said, outside of Kentucky, there will be little to no interest. Thanks for playing.
