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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The NCAA basketball committees having meetings this week, and they're
trying to determine if it's in the best interest of
the tournament to expand from the current sixty eight team
format to another number like seventy six or eighty or.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
How about three hundred and sixty four. Let's just invite
them all in. I was about to say how many
her Division One?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, well, for basketball it's three sixty four or three
sixty three, depending on who's counting that particularly week.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Remember a couple of weeks ago, maybe it was like
last month when when they had kind of talked about this,
why don't instead of just adding so many teams, why
don't you look at the possibility of and yes, this
is also to try to help not only the UTSA
men's but also the UTSA women's basketball team. But have
a like how it is in college football. Hey, if
(00:52):
you have X amount of wins, you're.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
At least eligible. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I think it used to be a few won twenty
games games you were going to pretty much get in.
And now I think there's some twenty game winners that
don't get in there. Here's here's the one thing I
would like to see if you win your regular season conference,
but you don't win the tournament, you're also guaranteed a spot,
(01:17):
and that that would go aligned with what happened with
the UTSA women this year. They won the conference and
they didn't play poorly except for one game all year
at South Florida, and I think they were seventeen and
one in the league, and then and then they played
a terrible game in the first game of the tournament.
They had several days off before they played a game.
(01:40):
They tried to get in a practice game and you
and you got it, and they kind of got a
little bit rusty, and then they got behind and they
hadn't been behind, and it was just not a really
it was that it was the bad time to have
a bad day, and they had it at the most
inopportune time. They had already beaten Rice a couple of
times earlier in the year, and then they just had
to try to beat them a third time and they
(02:01):
couldn't get it done. So now, to me, I would say,
if you win the regular season, and I don't care
whether you're the SEC and the Big Ten or you're
the Southland, if you win the regular season, then you
should be rewarded with a chance to go to the
NCAA Tournament. And the reason why we have conference tournaments,
(02:22):
let's just cut to the chase right here. The reason
conference tournament exists is so the leagues can make money.
It's all about cash registers. It's about getting a community,
a city to pay for it, to give you money
and to play more games, and to sell more tickets
and to sell more advertising. It is a cash cow
for those conferences. But I don't think and I think
(02:45):
that the IVY League is now the only league that
does not have a postseason conference tournament because they're not
in business to make back to play basketball. They want
the kids in school. But the whole idea behind this
is for people to be able to get paid. And
so if you're going to expand the conference or the
(03:06):
tournament by eight games, I don't need you to put
the fifteenth seed Auburn Tigers in the tournament because they're
the fifteenth seed. Yes, I know they're Auburn, and I
know they've Auburn was good last year, but let's say
they have a down year and they finished fifteenth in
the league. They took fourteen teams from the SEC last year,
to the NCAA tournament. So I don't need you to
(03:28):
invite the entire power for at the expense of Texas
A and M Corpus Christy that wins the southn Conference
and then loses in the championship game of the tournament.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So you're saving in the first round.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So you're saying there's room for improvement for the SEC
to get another team.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
My fear is is if you expand to seventy six
or ninety, all you're going to do is invite more
teams that don't deserve to be there based on their pedigree.
And Colin talks about this all the time that I
don't really care about George Mason and Loyola Chicago and
A and M Corpus Christy and whoever wins the the
(04:04):
the Metro Atlantic. And I understand that most people don't
know who they are, and the stories are nice for
five minutes, But ratings wise, you'd rather watch Duke of
North Carolina play for the seventeenth time than you would
play any you know, two schools from from North Carolina
that you've never heard of. So I understand that from
a rating standpoint that's the case. But I think that
(04:25):
if you're going to expand, where you start the expansion
is you tell everybody, if you win your regular season
that you're in.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
If there's ties for the regular season, then the then
the league itself is going to have to determine who
gets the automatic bid unless one of those teams wins
the wins the conference, because a lot of times you're
gonna you're gonna have a tiebreaker to determine who the
number one seed is, regardless of even if it's a
coin flip. After about ten or twelve different elements of
(04:55):
trying to figure out who the conference champion is going
to be in the number one seed, you're gonna give
them both a banner and both the ring for the
regular season conference. But the tournament win is what gives
you the automatic bid. So if I'm the NCAA, I'd
like to see more teams get in that deserve to
be in based on their regular season because in the
non Power five conferences or Power four conferences, it basically
(05:20):
comes down to if you don't win your conference tournament,
it doesn't matter if you're thirty and oh, you're not
getting into the tournament. The other stuff that they're going
to talk about, and this will likely not be tabled.
This will be tabled this year and probably I'm guessing
implemented in the next couple of years, and that is
moving college basketball to the quarter system and getting rid
of the has. I have been a proponent of this
(05:42):
for twenty five thirty years. I think we need to
play quarters because we need to reset the fouls after
ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
There's too much.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There's too many fouls that are being shot, especially in
the last few minutes of games. I would go to
the NBA WNBA rules where you.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Shoot two free throws on the fifth foul and you
get rid of the one in one.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think the one in one is an archaic thing
in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Everything should be two shots.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It would also prevent It wouldn't prevent, but it would
make fouling in the last few minutes of the game.
To catch up different, the women went to the NBAWNBA
rule by moving the ball.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
To half court on timeouts.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I've never understood the use of defensive timeouts in college basketball.
It's the only league in the world that in the
last minute of the game or last two minutes of
the game, the coaches call timeout after the offense scores
so they can quote unquote set their defense. The clock
is stopped, tell your center to take it a lay
of game and p throw the ball to the referee.
You don't need to waste your timeouts on defense. And
(06:43):
if you make the rules the way that they are
in pro basketball, where the offensive timeouts give you possession
in the front court, they'll.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Be saved for that.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And I know the biggest issue that they're having is well,
college basketball on the men's side right now has nine
timeouts a game for media, nine guaranteed media timeouts, and
they're at the sixteen, twelve, eight and four mark of
each half, and the first call timeout in the second
half is a media timeout. It's simple that WNBA has
been doing this since they went to quarters in two
(07:13):
thousand and two thousand and one. Whenever it was you
take the timeouts at the six minute mark or the
five minute mark and the end of the quarter, and
that the six minute mark and the three minute mark
in the first half, and you do the same thing
in the second half and add.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
One for the first call timeout. It's a simple process.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I don't know why when they say, well, we haven't
figured out how to do the media timeouts. Well, I
just gave him the answer. That's going back to the
world of common sense.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Clearly they don't. They have not asked the opinion of
radio broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's what it is. Well, here's a.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Big wig that's like, hey, how do we try to
do this the right way?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Radio is going to follow TV?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
But they probably the probably went to a TV executive
and said, how do we do this? And he told
him exactly what he'd told you. Just told you, and no,
that's not a very good idea.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
What do they know? They don't know what why'd you.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Ask the expert if you didn't want the expert's opinion.
But I do hope that that college basketball eventually goes
to quarters like the women did. It is it is
a much better sport for the women in the last
ten years, almost since they've been doing this, the games
are quicker. For those of you that don't have time
to stand twenty extra minutes of the games, they are
(08:26):
certainly quicker. There's far less fouling or are free throw
shooting in the early and a half. If you get
in foul trouble early that the ten minute mark, everything
gets reset. And too many of the traditionalists have been
hanging on to this half thing for college basketball for
way too long.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, it's it's not only that, it's just it's so
universal everywhere else. Like you mentioned, you know the women
used to be like international, yeah, international, but you know
women's college basketball used to be half halves, and then
they change it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So it's like you go from playing in you know,
in elementary.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
School, in middle school and high school you play quarters,
you don't play halves, and then you go to college
for one, two, maybe fingers crossed four years. Hey, now
we're doing something completely different. And then you if you
get the availability, your chance to go to the next level,
oh you're back to quarters.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's just it makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, it's pretty simple. I think that you have to adapt.
I think teams, institutions have to adapt. You have to
be open to change. There's a lot of people that
don't want to change the half system. The one thing
I don't like about high school basketball is they play quarters,
but they never reset the fouls, so they're shooting one
and one in the second quarter on the seventh foul,
(09:40):
And that makes no sense to me whatsoever. And college
in high school basketball is trying desperately in a lot
of states to implement a shot clock. But when you
look at the fact that schools play a freshman game,
a JV game, and a varsity game, usually back to
back to back on any given night in high school,
that's somebody that's going to have to operate the shot
(10:02):
clock for three games. And it's going to cost the
school another seventy five bucks or so to have somebody
sit there and me on the shot clock, plus be
able to have the people that know how to install
all those shop clocks. There is an expense there that
they just don't want to admit to right now or
commit to. Some states are doing that, but the twenty
four or thirty second shot clock is universal around pretty
(10:22):
much all of basketball around the world. All Right, Luke
Cornett has spoken and had some comments yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We'll talk about the fragile egos that some quarterbacks have,
and another look at the Luca trade.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All coming up. It's the Indie Everage show on the
ticket
The NCAA basketball committees having meetings this week, and they're
trying to determine if it's in the best interest of
the tournament to expand from the current sixty eight team
format to another number like seventy six or eighty or.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
How about three hundred and sixty four. Let's just invite
them all in. I was about to say how many
her Division One?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, well, for basketball it's three sixty four or three
sixty three, depending on who's counting that particularly week.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Remember a couple of weeks ago, maybe it was like
last month when when they had kind of talked about this,
why don't instead of just adding so many teams, why
don't you look at the possibility of and yes, this
is also to try to help not only the UTSA
men's but also the UTSA women's basketball team. But have
a like how it is in college football. Hey, if
(00:52):
you have X amount of wins, you're.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
At least eligible. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I think it used to be a few won twenty
games games you were going to pretty much get in.
And now I think there's some twenty game winners that
don't get in there. Here's here's the one thing I
would like to see if you win your regular season conference,
but you don't win the tournament, you're also guaranteed a spot,
(01:17):
and that that would go aligned with what happened with
the UTSA women this year. They won the conference and
they didn't play poorly except for one game all year
at South Florida, and I think they were seventeen and
one in the league, and then and then they played
a terrible game in the first game of the tournament.
They had several days off before they played a game.
(01:40):
They tried to get in a practice game and you
and you got it, and they kind of got a
little bit rusty, and then they got behind and they
hadn't been behind, and it was just not a really
it was that it was the bad time to have
a bad day, and they had it at the most
inopportune time. They had already beaten Rice a couple of
times earlier in the year, and then they just had
to try to beat them a third time and they
(02:01):
couldn't get it done. So now, to me, I would say,
if you win the regular season, and I don't care
whether you're the SEC and the Big Ten or you're
the Southland, if you win the regular season, then you
should be rewarded with a chance to go to the
NCAA Tournament. And the reason why we have conference tournaments,
(02:22):
let's just cut to the chase right here. The reason
conference tournament exists is so the leagues can make money.
It's all about cash registers. It's about getting a community,
a city to pay for it, to give you money
and to play more games, and to sell more tickets
and to sell more advertising. It is a cash cow
for those conferences. But I don't think and I think
(02:45):
that the IVY League is now the only league that
does not have a postseason conference tournament because they're not
in business to make back to play basketball. They want
the kids in school. But the whole idea behind this
is for people to be able to get paid. And
so if you're going to expand the conference or the
(03:06):
tournament by eight games, I don't need you to put
the fifteenth seed Auburn Tigers in the tournament because they're
the fifteenth seed. Yes, I know they're Auburn, and I
know they've Auburn was good last year, but let's say
they have a down year and they finished fifteenth in
the league. They took fourteen teams from the SEC last year,
to the NCAA tournament. So I don't need you to
(03:28):
invite the entire power for at the expense of Texas
A and M Corpus Christy that wins the southn Conference
and then loses in the championship game of the tournament.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So you're saving in the first round.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
So you're saying there's room for improvement for the SEC
to get another team.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
My fear is is if you expand to seventy six
or ninety, all you're going to do is invite more
teams that don't deserve to be there based on their pedigree.
And Colin talks about this all the time that I
don't really care about George Mason and Loyola Chicago and
A and M Corpus Christy and whoever wins the the
(04:04):
the Metro Atlantic. And I understand that most people don't
know who they are, and the stories are nice for
five minutes, But ratings wise, you'd rather watch Duke of
North Carolina play for the seventeenth time than you would
play any you know, two schools from from North Carolina
that you've never heard of. So I understand that from
a rating standpoint that's the case. But I think that
(04:25):
if you're going to expand, where you start the expansion
is you tell everybody, if you win your regular season
that you're in.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
If there's ties for the regular season, then the then
the league itself is going to have to determine who
gets the automatic bid unless one of those teams wins
the wins the conference, because a lot of times you're
gonna you're gonna have a tiebreaker to determine who the
number one seed is, regardless of even if it's a
coin flip. After about ten or twelve different elements of
(04:55):
trying to figure out who the conference champion is going
to be in the number one seed, you're gonna give
them both a banner and both the ring for the
regular season conference. But the tournament win is what gives
you the automatic bid. So if I'm the NCAA, I'd
like to see more teams get in that deserve to
be in based on their regular season because in the
non Power five conferences or Power four conferences, it basically
(05:20):
comes down to if you don't win your conference tournament,
it doesn't matter if you're thirty and oh, you're not
getting into the tournament. The other stuff that they're going
to talk about, and this will likely not be tabled.
This will be tabled this year and probably I'm guessing
implemented in the next couple of years, and that is
moving college basketball to the quarter system and getting rid
of the has. I have been a proponent of this
(05:42):
for twenty five thirty years. I think we need to
play quarters because we need to reset the fouls after
ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
There's too much.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There's too many fouls that are being shot, especially in
the last few minutes of games. I would go to
the NBA WNBA rules where you.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Shoot two free throws on the fifth foul and you
get rid of the one in one.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think the one in one is an archaic thing
in college basketball.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Everything should be two shots.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It would also prevent It wouldn't prevent, but it would
make fouling in the last few minutes of the game.
To catch up different, the women went to the NBAWNBA
rule by moving the ball.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
To half court on timeouts.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I've never understood the use of defensive timeouts in college basketball.
It's the only league in the world that in the
last minute of the game or last two minutes of
the game, the coaches call timeout after the offense scores
so they can quote unquote set their defense. The clock
is stopped, tell your center to take it a lay
of game and p throw the ball to the referee.
You don't need to waste your timeouts on defense. And
(06:43):
if you make the rules the way that they are
in pro basketball, where the offensive timeouts give you possession
in the front court, they'll.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Be saved for that.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And I know the biggest issue that they're having is well,
college basketball on the men's side right now has nine
timeouts a game for media, nine guaranteed media timeouts, and
they're at the sixteen, twelve, eight and four mark of
each half, and the first call timeout in the second
half is a media timeout. It's simple that WNBA has
been doing this since they went to quarters in two
(07:13):
thousand and two thousand and one. Whenever it was you
take the timeouts at the six minute mark or the
five minute mark and the end of the quarter, and
that the six minute mark and the three minute mark
in the first half, and you do the same thing
in the second half and add.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
One for the first call timeout. It's a simple process.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I don't know why when they say, well, we haven't
figured out how to do the media timeouts. Well, I
just gave him the answer. That's going back to the
world of common sense.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Clearly they don't. They have not asked the opinion of
radio broadcasters.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's what it is. Well, here's a.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Big wig that's like, hey, how do we try to
do this the right way?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Radio is going to follow TV?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
But they probably the probably went to a TV executive
and said, how do we do this? And he told
him exactly what he'd told you. Just told you, and no,
that's not a very good idea.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
What do they know? They don't know what why'd you.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Ask the expert if you didn't want the expert's opinion.
But I do hope that that college basketball eventually goes
to quarters like the women did. It is it is
a much better sport for the women in the last
ten years, almost since they've been doing this, the games
are quicker. For those of you that don't have time
to stand twenty extra minutes of the games, they are
(08:26):
certainly quicker. There's far less fouling or are free throw
shooting in the early and a half. If you get
in foul trouble early that the ten minute mark, everything
gets reset. And too many of the traditionalists have been
hanging on to this half thing for college basketball for
way too long.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, it's it's not only that, it's just it's so
universal everywhere else. Like you mentioned, you know the women
used to be like international, yeah, international, but you know
women's college basketball used to be half halves, and then
they change it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So it's like you go from playing in you know,
in elementary.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
School, in middle school and high school you play quarters,
you don't play halves, and then you go to college
for one, two, maybe fingers crossed four years. Hey, now
we're doing something completely different. And then you if you
get the availability, your chance to go to the next level,
oh you're back to quarters.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's just it makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, it's pretty simple. I think that you have to adapt.
I think teams, institutions have to adapt. You have to
be open to change. There's a lot of people that
don't want to change the half system. The one thing
I don't like about high school basketball is they play quarters,
but they never reset the fouls, so they're shooting one
and one in the second quarter on the seventh foul,
(09:40):
And that makes no sense to me whatsoever. And college
in high school basketball is trying desperately in a lot
of states to implement a shot clock. But when you
look at the fact that schools play a freshman game,
a JV game, and a varsity game, usually back to
back to back on any given night in high school,
that's somebody that's going to have to operate the shot
(10:02):
clock for three games. And it's going to cost the
school another seventy five bucks or so to have somebody
sit there and me on the shot clock, plus be
able to have the people that know how to install
all those shop clocks. There is an expense there that
they just don't want to admit to right now or
commit to. Some states are doing that, but the twenty
four or thirty second shot clock is universal around pretty
(10:22):
much all of basketball around the world. All Right, Luke
Cornett has spoken and had some comments yesterday.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We'll talk about the fragile egos that some quarterbacks have,
and another look at the Luca trade.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All coming up. It's the Indie Everage show on the
ticket
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