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Topic: Jay Bilas at It Again

Topic: Jay Bilas at It Again

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OUVan
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Jay Bilas at It Again

Posted: 5/9/2012 2:58:09 PM

http://insider.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/bilas_jay/id/7908722/reducing-size-division-make-better-ncaa-hoops-product-ncb

Apparently Duke's loss to Lehigh was the last straw for noted BCS shill Jay Bilas. He has amped up his rhetoric from the best 68 teams in the tourney to only allowing certain conferences to be represented.

Ohio69
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RE: Jay Bilas at It Again

Posted: 5/9/2012 3:40:24 PM

This is a solution searching for a problem. The NCAA tournament is just fine.

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

Bobcatbob
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RE: Jay Bilas at It Again

Posted: 5/9/2012 4:52:36 PM

Does anyone take Jay Bilas seriously? The man is without shame.

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RE: Jay Bilas at It Again

Posted: 5/9/2012 6:39:33 PM

A timely reply to the self absorbed douche Bilas has become

and when ya click on it.....as the man in the commercial says.....I think you're gonna like the way it looks

Last Edited: 5/9/2012 6:42:38 PM by bornacatfan

never argue with idiots, they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Winter comes and asks how you spent your summer.....

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RE: Jay Bilas at It Again

Posted: 5/10/2012 12:35:49 PM

Under Jay Bilas' various proposals about 2/3 of the greatest moments in tournament history never would have happened.

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RE: Jay Bilas at It Again

Posted: 5/10/2012 1:04:32 PM

I didn't read Bilas's column because (1) he's a moron and (2) I'm too cheap to become an "Insider." But my question is: If they reduced the number of D1 teams, who would these "powerhouses" play OOC? Each other? Nah. They'd lose their home court advantage in OOC games. Here's a rundown of the true road games on the OOC schedules for the Top 10 teams in the final USAT/ESPN poll for 2011-12:

Kentucky: 1 (a loss at Indiana, their only OOC loss of the season)
Kansas: 3 (losses at UK and Duke; a win at Southern Cal)
O$U: 2 (loss at Kansas; win at South Carolina)
L'ville: 2 (win at Butler; loss at UK)
Syracuse: 1 (win at NC State)
UNC: 3 (win at UNC-Asheville; losses at UNLV and UK)
MSU: 4 (losses at UNC and Duke; wins at EMU and Gonzaga)
Baylor: 3 (wins at Northwestern, BYU and WVU)
Florida: 3 (losses at O$U, Syracuse and Rutgers)
Marquette: 2 (win at Wisc; loss at LSU)

That's 24 OOC true road games: 2.4 per team. If they had to play each other all the time, they'd wind up with either home-and-home, thus making half their OOC schedules on the road (good luck doing that with UK, as Indiana found out) or a bunch of neutral site games, which also dilutes their home court advantage. Let's face it, they like having mid- and lower-major teams available to pad their home games (thus justifying their season ticket prices) and their records (notice just one of the above listed teams -- UNC -- lost to a non-powerhouse school).

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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