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Not fair to lay at the feet of the coaches the 5 goal differential needed to get to the ACC tourney…..the ESPN announcers noted the figure was changing during the course of the game - 7…..3…..8?…..and finally 5…..thinking that it would be more unsettling to the players to provide the changing numbe...

Premier jobs on a national level: Syracuse, Duke, UVA, Hop, ND, UNC, MD Yep. At just a notch below, I would add the other B1Gs and maybe Denver and GT. I note that Brown's last two HCs (before Daly) both left to coach at one of these. This is not a dis on Brown. Cornell has lost three HCs to the gr...

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Lax Mouse wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:26 pm Can we just take a moment to appreciate Drew Carter and Ryan Boyle? Absolutely fantastic

Yes!

Now if we could only get ESPN to make Beninati/Ward and Carter/Boyle the two top lax announcing teams.

Beninati & Ward calling ND-Albany are such a relief to listen to after the endless babble of those other guys ... You mean to say they don’t do shtick? I mean to say they don't genuflect to the ACC like Quint and Carc. Quint & Carc spent 6 hours of the Ivy League Tournament proclaiming that...

They're off the charts!

Beninati & Ward calling ND-Albany are such a relief to listen to after the endless babble of those other guys ...

How about if random big money BCS school (USC, Stanford, whatever) has a big check and agrees to put it up. They want name to start so pay up for Oetro and top dollar for two assistants who can have a 2-3yrs bake off to be Perers selected successor. Would he take that if it weren’t ACC or Big ten t...

baylax72 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 8:07 pm Maryland looking great. Is there a way to just mute Carc?

Now there's something useful AI could do.

1) Petro is not taking any HC job that's not in the ACC or B1G.

2) No school in the ACC or B1G would hire Petro as their HC.

3) Do the math.

There goes my bracket ...

Coaching talent routinely flows out of the Ivies: Petro, Starsia, Tillman, Tambroni, Tierney, Tiffany, Milliman.

OK. Touche. I get it. I understand where you are coming from and don't want to argue with a fellow Cornell fan and I did not mean to be snarky. Same! But let me calmly defend the conf tourneys. Shortly after the ILT got started, I recall Yale coach Andy Shay saying that he was a big supporter of it...

If you want more recent results to count more, the simplest thing is to declare that the conference tournaments are first rounds of the NCAA tournament (and that the ACC counts as a conference). Then we would now be down to the final 9.

pcowlax wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 4:09 pm SOS is not based off of poll rankings.

Correct, the SOS used by the NCAA is the average RPI of each team's top-10 (by RPI) opponents.

Chousnake wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 3:28 pm I have a better idea. How about we eliminate the post season tournaments altogether and give bids to the 9 regular season champions.

How about we also eliminate the NCAA tournament, and just have regular seasons only? That would get us closer to the true spirit of sport, would it not?

PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 3:38 pm How about eliminate the NCAA and start from there? Does it still serve any useful purpose?

Pays for travel out of basketball profits.

It's basketball fans who should be complaining, their money is supporting all these niche-sport tournaments.

I have a very simple solution:

Declare that the conference tournaments are actually first rounds of the NCAA tournament (and count the ACC as a conference).

Voila! The field is now expanded to ~50 teams. And the conference tournaments (= NCAA first rounds) are now much more meaningful.

bearlaxfan wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 10:29 pm Pretty good considering the relative locations' travel and the fact the host team lost the first night.

Well, that's first night attendance only. Sunday's attendance was 888 (which is still not too bad!)

According to this, it's "averse":

https://www.quora.com/Diction-and-Word- ... mmatically

But my degree is in engineering ...