Who is your complaint about? Right now there is only one mid-major that really stands to get screwed, that is Belmont. Belmont should be in.
rambone 78 wrote: ↑5 years ago
NC St. Ohio St. Clemson and Alabama are frauds.
So is St. Johns and Texas will be lucky to make it.
Indiana earlier this season lost 12 out of 13......yet they might make it too.
The problem is that some of those teams have had major players not play which makes it hard to judge simply by their record. Here is an example: Texas is 1-5 without their best player, Kerwin Roach. With him, they have wins over UNC, Purdue, and Kansas. He will be back for the Big 12 tournament. For Ohio St., Kaleb Wesson has missed the last 3 games. They are 0-3 in those games. He will be back for the Big 10 tournament. Now, in both cases I would say "You have your star back, win your first tournament game." Ohio St plays Indiana, Texas plays Kansas. I would say both those teams are in a different place then someone like St. John's. They have had some injury issues but have been healthy the last two games and have gone 0-2.
rambone 78 wrote: ↑5 years ago
The soft bubble will continue in future years.....P5 conferences going to 20 game schedules.....mid majors in leagues like the A10 and BE.....
Why does 20 games mean soft bubble? Reality is that if all conferences perform better in November in December, it's a stronger bubble. There are a lot of conferences chasing wins because they did not have solid resumes during the OOC. There will still be opportunities for those wins, regardless if a few P5 conferences have a few less OOC games.
ramster wrote: ↑5 years ago
Don’t think for a minute that recruiters in the P5’s won’t show recruits how the mid majors got screwed by the new, improved, more fair - NET.
And those recruiters will show how mid majors who would have been selected in prior years did not go this year.
This is a delusional post. Mid majors who are not selected this year would also not have been selected last year. While the impact on the NET is still very TBD, the reality is at it's worst, it's selecting teams the same way it was in past years (I.E. - looking at resume and not metrics). No one, I mean no one, knows the impact of the NET. But if there is one team to monitor, it's Belmont as one team that deserves it.