Adam Glatczak

@Greg_Laake @Sycamore_Ball Exactly right

@HoopvilleAdam @Sycamore_Ball Don’t get mad at the offensive team for stalling. Get mad at the defensive team for letting them.

I may be one of the only young guys in opposition to a shot clock. We don’t need it in high school

@BUBulldogBill @Sycamore_Ball Wisconsin. And we deal with the same things. One stall game and the shot clock posse goes nuts pretending 75% of games are like that. Again, I'd listen if there was some nuance or compromise from them. But almost all just want a replica of NBA/FIBA, which is a fat NO for me.

@BUBulldogBill @Sycamore_Ball Exactly. It's the mother of all Twitter manufactured outrages. It happens so rarely, but the couple times it happens it gets blown massively out of proportion on social media.

@_eddiemoscone This is exactly right. It's time to stop blaming "the NCAA" and to be clear. It's the SEC and Big 10 overwhelmingly responsible for the current state of college athletics, with some ACC and Big 12 sprinkled in. Period.

"The NCAA". Lazy and easy to blame faceless letters. Who is behind everything they do? Here's a hint. Who controls hapless Rob Manfred in MLB? Sankey has been very outspoken about this to get more of his middling teams in the tournament. So I anxiously await for you to grill him.

@BRamseyKSR Very well said. What also dislike about shorter shot clocks is they affect styles. The beautiful work-for-a-shot motion O is basically gone from CBB & above. That should be a viable strategy. Anything less than :45 is too short, we don't need mandated ball-screen, iso-heavy play.

I am anti-shot clock for Indiana High School Basketball. Admittedly, some of that is being a nostalgic purist. However, I also think there are several viable reasons to be against it...many of which actually fly in the face of what "pro" shot clock people think. 1) I'm almost assuredly in the Top 1% percentile of IHSAA games attended in the last 20-25 years. It simply doesn't come into play THAT often. 2) Yes, it would be fine (and maybe even beneficial) for Fishers vs. Ben Davis, Penn vs. South Bend St. Joseph, Bloomington North vs. Bloomington South, etc. However, what so many people forget is that for every game like that there are 10 games happening that feature ZERO FUTURE COLLEGE PLAYERS. If your argument is that the shot clock prepares you for college then I think you are missing the point as the overwhelming vast majority of IHSAA players don't even have aspirations of playing in college. 3) We already have a shortage of officials. This is going to make their lives significantly harder. Again, don't think about Fishers vs. Ben Davis that has college-level referees and more than enough people working the scorer's table. Think about your rural, Class 1A game in southern Indiana. It will be an issue at the table and on the court. 4) The cost is prohibitive at best and completely misused at worst. Again, don't think about the schools that already have a shot clock or have a booster club ready to write the check tomorrow. Think about the schools that need to fix their windows, purchase new equipment for the first time in a decade, upgrade to safe bleachers, etc. For many schools that don't have $10,000 sitting around even if they raise the money spending it on a shot clock is probably the LAST place it should go. 5) This goes back to point #2 a little bit, but it will make some games WORSE and actually HINDER development. If you run 20 seconds of offense and "have" to set a high ballscreen in order to get something before the shot clock it'll all look pretty for your DI guard. However, again, how about for the football player that plays basketball for fun in the winter at a rural school in east central Indiana? Would they be better off being "able" to run 10-20 more seconds of offense or should we "force" them to resort to a ballscreen? 6) Shot clocks only even get thought about when the, literally, FEW horror stories a year go viral of a team holding the ball. Long possessions aren't the problem (most high school teams quite frankly aren't good enough to possess the ball for 35 seconds and/or the defense isn't good enough to guard for 35 seconds). STALLING is the problem...and that almost never happens. I would, in theory, be in favor of a 60 second shot clock, but at that point it likely isn't worth it. I think that when people argue for a shot clock they do it while thinking about the 5% and not the 95%. They see how it could pretty seamlessly fit into a lot of Class 4A games or games with college players...because those are the games that casual fan watches. However, there is the 95% that doesn't need or care for "development" and doesn't need or care to be "prepared for the next level." A shot clock isn't the end of the world by any means because, as I've said, even at 35 seconds it will have zero impact on like 90%-95% of possessions on a nightly basis around the state. However, I think it will largely make the game/product WORSE, not better, and I hope that Indiana holds off for as long as possible.

@RoccoMiller8 This reads like 1) a gun-to-head statement or 2) a submitted resume for a position with a Big 10 franchise, of which he's spent time at two of them already.

SoCon delivers a reality check statement ahead of anticipated NCAA Tournament expansion and Samford AD Martin Newton's upcoming season as Selection Committee Chairman.

@BUBulldogBill Wow. What an absolutely terrible decision.

@BUBulldogBill Hopefully after taking a loss after that awful decision they have learned their lesson.

@TheFiveStarters Incredible voice. THE Voice of the Final Four.

Frank Fallon's last Starting 5 😢 NCAA Mens National Title game intros: Utah vs Kentucky March 30th, 1998 The Alamodome San Antonio, TX Absolutely insane that the Utes had a double digit lead in this game 👀

@CHIMPCARRAY A Card Sharks gif=may be one of your best yet

@sycamorepride It's shallow and tiring that every evaluation about things being better/more popular is based solely on 1) how it 'may' be better for the top handful of schools and 2) out-of-context Nielsen ratings.

1) The product being better is your opinion. Personally, for me, if I wanted to watch the NBA style of play, I would. We used to have significant diversity in college hoops and that has really faded over the last several years. Pretty much every program now falls in one of like 5-6 style buckets. Willing to bet that will continue to consolidate as coaches cannot install and run anything more than broad concepts when they have entire new rosters every year. 2) More people watching is factually incorrect. Nielsen changed their ratings methodology starting Oct 25 so numbers are inflated. We won't know until this first baseline year concludes and then have a 2nd year for comparison sake. On a micro level, and anecdotal to Indiana State, but I have run the largest fan forum since 2007. Our analytics trifecta (views, registrations, member contributions) are down drastically over the last 2 years. Even in previous down years (and we have plenty of them to reference), metrics never dipped like this. When discussed, common answer is they no longer feel emotional connection to players as they don't get to see them grow as they're essentially hired mercenaries. 3) It's math and stories out of colleges are already showing cracks. You can find hundreds of stories about schools wiping out positions, closing non-revenue sports, taking on debt or private equity, etc. You don't just add $X million to your balance sheet without having to account for it, especially since the large majority of schools subsidize athletics. Feel free to see those numbers in the Knight-Newhouse College Athletics database for yourself.

@_eddiemoscone The dirty little secret of this game: close or not, it has been a really, really tough watch. Way, way too much contact allowed on every single possession, both ways.

The grabbing and holding in the 2nd half is a joke. These clowns are embarrassing. But they've done a lot of Final Fours so there's that. Just means they follow directives.

@_eddiemoscone They've been awful. Officiating this game as if they're on Big 10 payroll with the hot oil rubdown they've given Michigan.

Look beyond the BS. There's never any accountability in CBB. This means nothing. These refs have sucked on national TV more than others?

@BUBulldogBill Agreed. First game Illinois's snoozefest, three-assists-in-the-entire-game isolation offense, and 2nd game uncompetitive from the beginning.

@CJMordock At least I'm glad that "higher seeds advancing deeper means more awesome games later in the tournament!"

Wow. Great job by Arizona locking up Tommy Lloyd before he absolutely shit the bed here.

@NILnotNLI Could not have said this better. 100% on the money.

Not about bashing individuals here, but Jay Bilas has done more to destroy our unique, world-class collegiate athletics system than nearly anyone. Particularly when he spouts the tired nonsense we all saw earlier today. ​He became social media famous by basically searching the NCAA website and turning that into a crusade that is dismantling one of the best educational opportunity programs this great country has ever seen, all under the fake guise of "player advocacy" (that he knows really only benefits a select few). ​He ignores the fact that universities are quite literally bankrupting themselves to avoid irrelevance in this horrible, unsustainable new system he helped create and keeps pushing. ​As said here often, Division 1 Basketball & Football fan distrust and dissatisfaction are at an all-time high, and his tired reliance on TV ratings does nothing to fix the massive discontent. ​EVERYONE hates the current NCAA trajectory, except for the few like Bilas who profit from this chaos. ​He's apparently using his massive platform to provide legal cover for a unionization push from which he will undoubtedly financially benefit. ​College sports belongs to the schools, students, and the fans, not to the lawyers trying to bill their way into the headlines.

@RoccoMiller8 This really should be a major story. From today they look like a really selfish and boring offensive team to watch. Which is kind of sad given Underwood teams at SFA were some of the most enjoyable offenses in the country.

Illinois. With 8:41 to go. Still just two total team assists. #FinalFour

@_eddiemoscone My thought exactly when saw that clip. The lapdogs just sit there like bobblehead dolls nodding, rather than challenging or asking for clarification. As usual, they're fine with the destruction of college sports for the 1%ers.

@HoopvilleAdam Also, it's a damn shame that not one media muppet follows up how recruiting became "streamlined". They never, ever, ever, challenge their comments or hypocrisy with reality. It's truly a joke. All of it. The system and lack of inquiry.

Translation: "Now at UM, in a matter of minutes, all I have to do is send cash to an experienced player who's already been coached at a non-A4 school."

@RobertGunther3 @coleadamss Beer with Raftery. That would be right up there with spending 15 minutes with John Wooden when he was alive as a bucket list experience.

@coleadamss My friend.

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