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Sure seems as though the NCAA is doing everything it can to ruin college athletics while claiming to be the protector of college athletics. Probably just trying to keep up the perception of remaining relative in the face of the growing power of the emerging mega-conferences/semi-pro leagues.

Today's NIL has brought the under the table payments above the table. The programs with the big money have always been paying players more than programs with less money, let alone programs with little-to-no money. Unfortunately, the asking price players are demanding up front and the pools of...

Bilas is the Eddie Haskell of NCAA basketball. Says one thing in one place, then says the opposite somewhere else when he thinks nobody is aware of what he previously said.

I'd wager that Virginia could have scored at least 101...if they added up their scores from playing three games.

If you are an ACC fan or someone who placed a fair amount of money on the ACC teams, you might be a little nervous right about now. In addition to the ACC's third best team, Virginia, getting smoked by the sixth best team in the Mountain West, the ACC's two "blue bloods," UNC and Duke, were both...

I was at that game; happened to be visiting my sister in Glendale, CA on my Spring Break when the brackets were announced. The Birds hung tough all game long, fought back from a ten point deficit, then came up short the last 90 seconds. Was not even close to being a good shooting night. Had the...

If memory serves, the Valley now holds the records for highest RPI in a season to not get an invitation to the NCAA tournament when RPI was "the standard" (Southwest Missouri State) and the highest NET rating to not get an invitation to the NCAA tournament when NET is "the standard" (Indiana...

IMHO, considering the size of the crater the program was in two years ago, building the program back to having an NIT caliber team in three seasons would be an accomplishment; not being able to do it in four seasons would be a failure. Other "mid major" programs have managed to turn things...

Gather 'round, boys and girls, and let an old timer tell you a story. Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a basketball program that not only was typically at or near the top of the MVC, but it also occasionally made the NCAA tournament, giving the likes of defending national...

If they go 2-1 in their last three games, the Birds will finish 10-10 in conference and 16-15 overall, with five wins in their last six conference games. Depending on what the other teams around them in the current conference standings do over the next ten days or so, that finish could put them...

Applying a landscaping saying to establishing a basketball program: the first year it sleeps, the second year it creeps, and the third year it leaps. Had the Birds not lost the Valpo and UIC games, they would currently be 8-7 in the conference (5th place) with a 14-12 overall record. Most of us...

We were living in northern Virginia in 2009 when the CBS affiliate broke away from overtime of the ISU-UNI MVC tournament final game to join the tip-off of a regular season ACC game. That should tell you all you need to know about how the networks perceived the MVC even then, and this was only a...

I'll write it, because many of my fellow graybeards are thinking it. A good place to start would be to say, "To heck with the lawyers. Bring back the flaming tubas."

Along with Covid, a tough economy for some/many, increase in prices, multiple distractions with which to compete for fan attention, and quality of conference play slipping, languishing for more than twenty years in the NCAA tournament desert with a string of far-below-par seasons will tend to...

Some might have underestimated the depth and breadth of the crater out of which Pedon is having to dig. While the amount of progress made in approximately 18 months is impressive, I hope we keep our expectations in check and keep in mind it will likely be a multi-year effort to get back to the...

To quote the late, great comedian George Carlin, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!"

In the eyes of the "majors," that is one of the WORST things about the NIT. Having one or more of their middle-of-the-pack or slightly lower programs travel and occasionally lose on the road to "mid-major" programs exposes how little difference there is at times between the eighth-place team in...

IMHO the NCAA is afraid the "power" conferences are on the verge of breaking away and setting up their own playoffs and tournaments for football and the other major sports. Revamping the NIT berth criteria is an attempt to keep such moves off the short-term calendar. In addition, the new NIT...

Would like to see Robinson on the Vikings. Their RB room is a little shallow right now, and he could help keep Cousins' sternum from being pressed against his spinal column during pass protection behind their mediocre interior O-line.

Lived for one year on a co-ed floor in Manchester. Jingled the chains a few times during pick-up basketball games on the Manchester courts. Those were the days.