Comments on: Dick Vitale and I Are Mad As Hell, And We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore!

By: steve odabashian

steve odabashian — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:54:55 +0000

What the hell is Digger doing with his finger in the last few seconds?

By: Johnny Goodtimes

Johnny Goodtimes — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:14:28 +0000

St. Mary’s RPI=47
Arizona RPI=62

Too bad the numbers don’t support Bilas and Phelps. The RPI factors in strength of schedule. The NCAA simply hates small schools. The BCS computer system keeps Utah out of the picture, and the NCAA selection committee just ignores the RPI computer system when it’s convenient to dismiss small schools. The big guys win either way.

By: BMT

BMT — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:23:48 +0000

Vitale is 100% right about this. The argument that the bigger conference schools automatically have tougher schedules is the same wool-over-the-eyes argument that the clowns in the BCS make about football. The assumption in this case is that the PAC-10 is automatically better because of the name recognition of those schools. Look at the damned conference tournament, it was a joke. And where the hell was Arizona in it? If you’re a spurious bubble team like Arizona and you can’t even show-up for your conference tournament finals, you have no business being in the big dance. None at all.
The only conference this year that gets the big name assumption pass is the Big East. Just like the SEC in football this year, the teams coming out of that conference have beaten each other up all year. But please don’t tell me about strength of schedule when you’re Arizona. How can you sit there and try and make the argument that they belong when St. Mary’s doesn’t? It’s the same bullshit you got with respect to Utah this year and the BCS. Apologists for the big conferences (read: more money) will always fall back on the “they played a tougher schedule” argument simply because of the name recognition of other schools in the conference.
At the end of the day, why should schools like St. Mary’s even play their season if their schedules are so weak? Like Utah this year going undefeated and not making the title game, St. Mary’s (26-fucking-2!) really never had a chance because of establishment stooges like Bilas and Phelps.

By: Johnny Goodtimes

Johnny Goodtimes — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:44:35 +0000

You gotta love it when you write an incensed post about how people are clueless about a certain school and then you get the name of that school wrong. I’m a genius.

By: Dave Allen

Dave Allen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:38:37 +0000

“…over Mount Saint Mary’s…”

That should be St. Mary’s. Mount St. Mary’s is a small Catholic college in my hometown, Emmitsburg, Md., that lost to Robert Morris in the NEC final. Damn those Colonials.