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NCAA tourney no longer has a place for the Cinderella story

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,843 Founders Club
edited March 25 in Tug Tavern
https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1904277044776857993
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,581 Standard Supporter

    Least chinteresting March Madness of my lifetim.

    Used to literally watch every game. Don’t even have the TV on in my office.

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  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,288 Founders Club

    Portal killed the kid that was under recruited and was a killer at Drake or Davidson by his senior year. Now that kid is the 6th man at Tennessee or something and is getting laid and paid and lost his killer instinct.

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  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,183 Standard Supporter

    Yep, NIL and transfer portal have killed college athletics. Most medium to small markets just don't know it yet but they soon will.

    I have lost interest. When I'm not familiar with 75% of the team anymore, it's hard to get into it. No loyalty to the school anymore. Zero connection to the students or the campus for most players. One and Done's don't go to class, mingle with the student body, they drive $250K cars and haved nothing . Its not good.

    I get it, shallow thinkers see nothing wrong with what is happening, but in the next 5 years many schools will start dropping programs and there will be an athletic labor union which will further erode the sports as we have known them.

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  • EverettChris
    EverettChris Member Posts: 8,615 Standard Supporter

    Paul Westhead, Bo Kimble, and Jeff Fryer aren’t walking through the door anytime soon.

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,604 Founders Club

    Neither is Hank Gaithers or Len Bias

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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,149 Standard Supporter

    I think I watched three Husky games, and five U of A games, including the Oregon game.

    It's cool that Oregon and Gonzaga lost, but I have no interest. I used to fill out two or three brackets, and sign up for this stuff on Yahoo or ESPN. It's not as bad as the NBA, but they shoot way too many threes. The one and dones damaged this sport many years ago, and NIL made it worse.

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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,581 Standard Supporter
    https://hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/2062202#Comment_2062202

    Gonzaga/Houston turned out to be a hell of a game. Did watch that one.

    Kelvin Sampson has morphed into Mike Leach. Very quotable. "I'm down with the State of Washington".

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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,752 Standard Supporter

    I have watched zero minutes of the tournament. At this point I'd rather watch Blippi with my 3 year old.

    Thanks, NCAA.

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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,475 Founders Club

    Eh this year didn't turn out bad at all in terms of the final 16 teams. UW hasn't made the tournament in 7 years. If they were playing in Seattle last weekend everyone would be dooging. Blippi and Jesse Waters are always going to be there tomorrow.

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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,752 Standard Supporter

    If the tournament is going to turn into chalk they should contract it down to 16 teams.

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