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rjsuperfly66

Agree with you Adam, but then why change it in the first place? It's just another in a continuing list that negatively impacts mid and low majors. Is it big, huge? No. But it all adds up. Can you tell me how this impacts mid-majors? Yes, there is the potential scenario where an A10 team gets bumped...

rjsuperfly66

Agree with you Adam, but then why change it in the first place? It's just another in a continuing list that negatively impacts mid and low majors. Is it big, huge? No. But it all adds up. Can you tell me how this impacts mid-majors? Yes, there is the potential scenario where an A10 team gets bumped...

rjsuperfly66

Yep. It's brutal to the Conference Champions who could now get nudged out by a below .500 P5 school. Terrible change. So here is the other side of it - Does anyone, outside of those in Ohio, really giving a flying flip about Youngstown St being the 8 seed in the NIT? Is fan interest for a home team...

rjsuperfly66

So why change it? And what about the home court favoritism? My guess - there was advanced talks of multiple power conference leagues going to create their own postseason tournament with Fox, and this gives them more ammo as being power-conference friendly. That said, I find the home-court angle so ...

rjsuperfly66

Did you read the replies in Goodman's thread? One mid major AD pissed that P5's will get to host, and P5's are getting tons of Media NIL money but Mid Majors who win their Conference Championship will have to pay to travel to P6 Team Arenas. This is just another swipe at non P5 Basketball Programs ...

rjsuperfly66

I agree with the premise it's advantage to power conference teams but mid-majors will likely see a benefit as well. Many of these power conference programs were already in the NIT, the difference is more of them would get home games. Getting rid of the auto-bids hurts low-majors and opens up anothe...

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NIT Changes: For the 2024 NIT, conference regular season champions that do not win their conference tournament or are not otherwise selected to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship will not receive an automatic bid to the NIT. Instead, the NIT will guarantee two teams (based on the NE...

rjsuperfly66

I agree with the premise it's advantage to power conference teams but mid-majors will likely see a benefit as well. Many of these power conference programs were already in the NIT, the difference is more of them would get home games. Getting rid of the auto-bids hurts low-majors and opens up another...

rjsuperfly66

RJ, Memphis, FAU and Wichita State would be a great addition to Dayton, URI, VCU, SLU, Richmond, GMU and Davidson. Maybe UMass, but who knows with them. Problem is football. But that would be a pretty solid basketball conference. If you combined them with the top of the A10, perhaps. If 2-4 teams w...

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If the AAC wants to add another non-football school and VCU isn't interested we should be trying to grab that slot. The A10 is dying and we need off this ship Losing Houston is a major loss for the AAC. How much better long-term is a conference headlined by Memphis, FAU, and Wichita St? The A10 nee...

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Had a feeling https://x.com/vcuramnation/status/1717222440789496062?s=46&t=X3tFdRrojFvLeOstPVmZqw I regularly read the VCU forum and there are several threads that discuss this. There have been additional multiple sources close to the VCU program that have posted that the AAC move has no legs. ...

rjsuperfly66

I'm guessing part of the issue is title IX. If you are asking the schools to pay athletes with a percentage of TV revenue, most collegiate athletes are worthless. Further, the revenue producing sports help fund many other programs at a college/university. Using that to help pay athletes harms the wh...

rjsuperfly66

I agree... NIL is a charade farce. I have a NIL arrangement where I work, only they call it a salary. No one 'really' has any idea what's in them (and if they don't have to say...why would they?). Collecting Nil-dough from rich people to watch practice...to funnel money to 'some' (but likely not ev...

rjsuperfly66

Over the long term my guess is the fake NIL ie The Collectives goes away. There is profit sharing and legit name, likeness, image usages that are generating the revenue for athletes. That makes too much sense so then again maybe it won’t ever happen. I agree... NIL is a charade farce. I have a NIL ...

rjsuperfly66

Since everything is relative, what is a a sizable donation? You mention you know people who give sizable donations…is that $5,000, $25,0000, $100,000? What equals sizable? I know a few who have given 10k, either a direct personal donation or through a business partnership. The school has been very ...

rjsuperfly66

Why is that number unrealistic? If you have 10,000 season ticket holders, and all season ticket holders give $25 a month, there is $250k a month, $3 million a year. Obviously you are going to have some who give $0, and some who give $10k, but you need everyone playing a part. If you asked most URI ...

rjsuperfly66

Why is that number unrealistic? If you have 10,000 season ticket holders, and all season ticket holders give $25 a month, there is $250k a month, $3 million a year. Obviously you are going to have some who give $0, and some who give $10k, but you need everyone playing a part. If you asked most URI f...

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rjsuperfly66

It's driven by the media/Fox - more quality teams = more quality games = more quality content Sorry, superfly, we are now in Catch-22 land. The above is a playback of my earlier comment on brands, pairings, and time slots as opposed to your emphasis on market size. Funny. It does not answer my ques...

rjsuperfly66

It's speculative on my part, although I'm not sure if it would be factored into revenue for a programs respective sports...

I do know a quick glance on google showed Ohio Sts 2022 expenses - $70 million for football, $12 million for basketball.

rjsuperfly66

But 72, ... So you agree with me that A10 institutions now compete in the B league, and most players and coaches who are late bloomers etc will leave for the A league if given the opportunity. This is extremely depressing to me. Somehow I don't believe that Bryant Univ will ever be satisfied being ...

rjsuperfly66

It's driven by the media/Fox - more quality teams = more quality games = more quality content Sorry, superfly, we are now in Catch-22 land. The above is a playback of my earlier comment on brands, pairings, and time slots as opposed to your emphasis on market size. Funny. It does not answer my ques...

rjsuperfly66

superfly, I do not have any strong understanding of why the BE would expand. Maybe ESPN and Fox may have some solid reasons for it. My sole interest here is that any BE expansion does offer URI an opportunity to move beyond the A-10. I understand that this is a low probability and is only possible ...

rjsuperfly66

P rovidence may not be a tiny media market, but it is hardly a large one. And so when you hear the league/Fox not pushing to share in larger media markets, or even closer media markets to places like D.C, Philly, etc., why would they have interest in RI? Sorry, superbly, you misunderstand what I am...

rjsuperfly66

"A second team in a small media market is pretty much a non-starter because it does nothing to elevate the bar. Nothing about that is petty or short-sighted. It's long-term strategic thinking on what sells." superfly, you keep making this same old-same old comment which is a passe' though...

rjsuperfly66

Which is shame because Oklahoma/Oklahoma St are only 80ish miles apart, Kansas/KSU are also only 80ish miles apart, Stanford/Cal are only 45ish mils apart, Oregon/Oregon State are also 45ish miles apart, and USC/UCLA are 10ish miles apart. They seem to thrive in the same conference (until Oklahoma ...

rjsuperfly66

Why would the BE want URI? I agree, they don’t. One factor is a move by the BE for URI would not grow their market, footprint, or a new TV market. No? Correct, and UConn and PC would never want a school so close to compete with them Which is shame because Oklahoma/Oklahoma St are only 80ish miles a...

rjsuperfly66

Cox initially retained the entire roster. Including a top 25 recruiting class that had committed to Dan. He too was highly regarded in the profession, recommended by many incl the current national champ coach. Until KE does something he’s never done (coach a team to the top of his conference) he wi...

rjsuperfly66

And playing Merrimack, Stonehill, St. Peter's, Columbia, UNH, Fairleigh Dickinson is NET heaven, and not to mention, to quote a PC fan, you play those teams not because of the rivalry, but because the quality of the game and they don't f'k with the PC schedule, unlike playing URI where the draw is ...

rjsuperfly66

damram wrote: ↑8 months ago The Dump was built to stimulate business downtown. The Friars owe it to the state to sell out that building for every game they play.

So because the Amp is downtown, they should play only Q1-Q2, or name-brand opponents who draw, and screw what's best for the program? You can't be that obtuse...

rjsuperfly66

This position is true IF PC remains a consistent winner as they were in previous 10 years with Cooley. If however PC becomes more up and down and a stepping stone job as they were for the decades before that then it doesn’t. It would still favor URI heavily. Even if PC became more inconsistent, the...

rjsuperfly66

And playing Merrimack, Stonehill, St. Peter's, Columbia, UNH, Fairleigh Dickinson is NET heaven, and not to mention, to quote a PC fan, you play those teams not because of the rivalry, but because the quality of the game and they don't f'k with the PC schedule, unlike playing URI where the draw is ...

rjsuperfly66

I am neither for or against a home and home PC-URI series, what I am for is a good discussion of the subject, open minded, unbiased, fact based and, sorry, you do not contribute to that goal with your up-and-down, erratic reasoning. What is erratic about my reasoning? That I want you to be good so ...

rjsuperfly66

Once again, a PC fan thinking they're Duke, Kentucky , Kansas or UConn. No just a PC fan that wants to see his team try to compete at the highest level. Playing URI twice is net suicide. And playing Merrimack, Stonehill, St. Peter's, Columbia, UNH, Fairleigh Dickinson is NET heaven, and not to ment...

rjsuperfly66

I am not advocating we should play twice a year but the data on all fronts supports the concept. For example in the last two seasons when URI played PC at the Dunk, the game drew 12,997 fans. That attendance was bigger than any other PC OOC games in both seasons and outdrew every single home Big Ea...

rjsuperfly66

1 - There is not a universe when PC/URI play twice a year again. Once a year is bad enough (your average KenPom is 99 the last decade, and that's a lie, because it's 99 while removing Hurleys and Millers first years). I think most of you acknowledge it would never happen, still made me spit out my ...

rjsuperfly66

Once again, a PC fan thinking they're Duke, Kentucky , Kansas or UConn. Has nothing to do with thinking any which way - teams play 11 OOC games, why would you lock 2 in against the same team? In the most bizarro world, maybe if you had two lock Top 25 teams year after year would it make sense. Has ...

rjsuperfly66

1 - There is not a universe when PC/URI play twice a year again. Once a year is bad enough (your average KenPom is 99 the last decade, and that's a lie, because it's 99 while removing Hurleys and Millers first years). I think most of you acknowledge it would never happen, still made me spit out my w...

rjsuperfly66

No I don’t and I along with others expect a climb up the standings this year for sure. But this thread started with the inference that this was Archie’s most impt season ever. When you can’t point to 1 mid major that went from worst to near first in under 2 years it would seem to indicate that to b...

rjsuperfly66

I'm struggling here to understand how people can't compartmentalize these issues. Why are we saying that expecting to compete for a top-8 finish in a down/bad conference somehow means it's Archie's most important season ever when he literally faced a "tournament or fired" scenario at IU b...

rjsuperfly66

Isn't the rebuild relative to the conference? Who is asking for Elite 8 (Muss at Ark) or Top 10 (Smart at Marq) for year 2? Why such a colossal defense for suggesting you should be competing for the top half of the conference and flirt with a potential NIT bid? Of course he doesn't have NIL, facili...

rjsuperfly66

Isn't the rebuild relative to the conference? Who is asking for Elite 8 (Muss at Ark) or Top 10 (Smart at Marq) for year 2? Why such a colossal defense for suggesting you should be competing for the top half of the conference and flirt with a potential NIT bid? Of course he doesn't have NIL, facili...

rjsuperfly66

Isn't the rebuild relative to the conference? Who is asking for Elite 8 (Muss at Ark) or Top 10 (Smart at Marq) for year 2? Why such a colossal defense for suggesting you should be competing for the top half of the conference and flirt with a potential NIT bid? Of course he doesn't have NIL, facilit...

rjsuperfly66

Don't over-rate UConn football. It sucks and is best fit with the ACC. Tough to say that joining Duke, UNC, Syracuse, etc would kill the UConn basketball program. They would be in the upper half of a strong basketball conference that actually makes sense for them geographically. Agree with you Rhod...

rjsuperfly66

RJSuperfly, RhodyVault continues on a push for all 4 Rhode Island teams to play each other every year just as PC-URI play every year In the old days pre Big East and A10 URI-PC played twice a year. Several years they alternated Home-Away with both games at the Providence Civic Center. RV seems hell...

rjsuperfly66

Archie's 2019-'20 IU team was going to the NCAA tournament. So this "5 coaching seasons removed from a tournament bid and 7 coaching seasons removed from a tournament win" doesn't take that into context. All these if's...you can go on forever with this stuff. Archie is doing fine. He will...

rjsuperfly66

It's the hyperbole of how this upcoming season is the most important of Archie's entire career . That's just patently false and you cannot justify that statement. So there is an argument to be said for that. He's now 5 coaching seasons removed from a tournament bid and 7 coaching seasons removed fr...

rjsuperfly66

Just remember that the reality for most in this weird camp of Archie distrust is that Dave Cox had an empty cupboard but Archie should've been good out of the box. I've begun to make my peace with it. Some people, you just can't reach. So I don't have a horse in this race, but I don't find the stat...

rjsuperfly66

I love things taken out of context to establish some ludicrous point not based in reality. Nevermind the fact that Arch had a top 30 team destined for the NCAA in the Covid year. Typical Vault though. High on conjecture and inferences, light on reality. Or more simply put “if you like me, I’ll writ...

rjsuperfly66

Last year the 14 Big Ten teams played 36 Top 50 opponents during OOC out of max 154 games (23.4%). The 15 A10 teams played 17 Top 50 opponents during OOC out of max 195 games (8.7%). But yeah, the Big Tens high NET is just by pounding low majors during conference play...

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