March Madness May Move to Cable

Currently, the NCAA collects 90% of its yearly revenue from the CBS contract for March Madness.

Which explains why the BCS is here to stay. Multiple contracts with multiple broadcasters for multiple conferences. Fuck, the $EC(and CBS) probably makes more in a slow football season off of ONE conference than ABC/NCAA make off March Madness.

I’ll take March Madness any day.

I closed that fucking italics God damnit.

Why even have a regular season? College Basketball is turning into the NBA; an absolute snoozer.

Not that it matters one whit, but it would suck if the event was moved to 96 teams.

Add 3 more play in games if expansion is deemed necessary (and frankly, I think it could be a win-win since those participants will have a shot at a tournament win that way), but the 64 slots to begin the event with is just right.

SLX: I agree, but it is the American Way to take a good thing and SuperSize it until it is a bloated, grotesque image of itself.

These back to back to years are amazing about who finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the Heisman.

1981 Marcus Allen, Herschel Walker, Jim McMahon
1982 Herschel Walker, John Elway, Eric Dickerson

I will start with 1990 on who won and who should have won or had a damn good argument.

1990 Ty Detmer-Should have been The Rocket
1991 Desmond Howard-tough to argue, bad year
1992 Gino Torretta-Marshall Faulk
1993 Charlie Ward-tough to argue
1994 Rashaan Salaam-Steve McNair thanks Texas
1995 Eddie George-Tommy Frazier was great too
1996 Danny Wuerfell-Jake Plummer(undefeated ASU team to Rose Bowl)
1997 Charles Woodson-Peyton Manning though I’m good with Woodson
1998 Ricky Williams
1999 Ron Dayne-Michael Vick (undefeated Vtech team to NC game with FSU)
2000 Chris Weinke-Drew Brees (led Purdue to Rose Bowl)
2001 Eric Crouch-Terrible year perhaps ken Dorsey
2002 Carson Palmer
2003 Jason White-Larry Fitzgerald
2004 Matt Leinart-tough to argue but Adrian Peterson was awesome frosh
2005 Reggie Bush-Vince Young
2006 Troy Smith-Darren McFadden
2007 Tim Tebow- could argue Darren McFadden
2008 Sam Bradford- could argue Colt

Wrong post. Sorry about that. Continue on talking about super size and how they can further make college athletics like boring professional sports.

Not sure I care about who has the contract, but expanding the field is just plain stupid. Smacks of unrestrained greed. A wise man told me once, “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered”. The NCAA better be careful.

The tourney is already oversaturated and overcommercialized. It’s no accident that the tourney has gone to the pod system to fill arenas. Also, since the NCAA chose to have regionals in football stadiums the lack of intimacy and atmosphere has contributed to how boring the tourney has become. I went to the Mich State/Texas game last year in Reliant and vowed I would never go to another NCAA tourney game again. This after seeing great tournament games in 15k seat arenas for years. The tourney has changed and it’s certainly for the worse.

For all the college football proponents be careful what you wish for. College Football is the best sport and product out there today and there is a reason for that and it’s really not even close.

I went to the Mich State/Texas game last year in Reliant and vowed I would never go to another NCAA tourney game again.

That game was at the Toyota Center.

SLX, I share your distaste for expansion by 32, but if they did it, we finally would see some games between the lower-level BCS conference teams and the mid- and low major heroes.

At 64, they are only three games from including everybody. The argument has been that the conference tournaments serve as those early rounds, and I find that hard to dispute.

Bob,

I’m sorry I meant to say two years ago when TX played Stanford and Memphis played Mich State. Time flies. And yes, I vowed I would never go back.

So, let me get this straight: we can’t have an 8-team playoff in a sport that plays12 regular season games, but we can have a 96-team playoff in a sport that plays 30 regular season games?

GD: Figured. I’m going to the UNC-Texas game next week. We’ll see what that is like.

I once thought that there was no way I would pass up a FF in Houston. Now… eh. I want to see the games, not just be there.

Wood Shed: Difference is control of the money. NCAA has control of the basketball revenue, and right now, the BCS controls most of the football postseason money.

The NCAA can’t arbitrarily impose a football playoff without risking the loss of the BCS conferences from its organization, which would make its current operation impossible and destroy the basketball tournament brand.

Do basketball players literally hit each other so hard they try to knock each other out of the game?

I’ve never found a satisfactory answer to this: What does the NCAA do with 2 billion dollars? Surely, it doesn’t need that much money to oversee college athletics.