Degenerate wrote:IndyFrisco wrote:
And A&M will still be considered a lower seed than Kansas even though we have the same record both in and out of conference and we beat them...
Figuring out who is the 1 or the 2 seed between the two doesn't mean anything. Kansas is going to the St. Louis regional and aTm is going to the San Antonio regional.
this is exactly what i was going to post, the #1 seed is a sweet cosmetic deal but i'd much rather have a #2 or even #3 if i were KU to STL and ATM to San Antonio. and as the south midwest regional power, KU will always play in KC or STL. Much like Duke or Carolina will always play in Charlotte or Greensboro as the flexible #1 seed in either the East or South.
i haven't posted my annual curmudgeonly
"the pod system is a joke"/designed to protect high seeds for TV$ and is anti-competition rant yet this year.....but, it might go here.
if it weren't about the money and the network bling, then WHY did the NCAA LIE about it's original "post 9/11" rationale? for security reasons and fan travel since people were tentative to fly....sure, sure, sure......it's about protecting the higher seeds and network ratings and homer fans in the seats spending money at local merchants. it was inevitable that something like the pod system would happen/was going to happen (a complete 180 from the old system--minus Duke or Carolina always playing in Charlotte or Greensboro--which sent big boys from the East to places like Ogden, Utah or Austin
to guarantee a neutral floor)-- instead they cynically used 9/11 as the rationale to shoehorn the "system" into place.
it's a political economy of sport that directly intervenes in outcomes (in favor of economics) and is thereby basically a form of favoritism and uneven playing fields.....from our great governing body whose love of sport (cough...NCAA football playoff?....cough) is it's only guiding principle. ...that might seem impossible, would it not?
sin,
KC the curmudgeon (who liked seeing high seeds freeze their balls off in a cold, half-empty gym in Ogden, Utah to rally against some upstart like Mississippi Valley State).
next up on the docket would be: the idiocy of the national media/advertising craze for picking brackets OR countdown to Billy Packer's annual rant about how the committee should be a hand-picked team of experts "who KNOW basketball" (no computers) with the underlying implication being that he should be part of it's leadership OR how tired i am of getting the analysts/ad people's reversible selling logic of the "Cinderella" theme jammed down my throat for 3 weeks--either the mid-majors are THAT good or they are big upsets....WHICH IS IT? can't have it both ways.
that said, WAR the tournament (and that it's still a long way off until the rat-bastards completely ruin it and turn it into the Super Bowl).
