@brianmccormick No. March Madness is a valuable asset. The USGA's men's amateur is also a valuable asset. That fact does not turn its participants into professional golfers.
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rickneaton
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rickneaton
@rickneaton
Investment researcher and writer, golf enthusiast, alumnus of University of Detroit and fan of Titans basketball
Katılım Ekim 2008
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Billions of dollars per year.
College basketball is professional basketball.
Matt Grossenbach@MattGrossenbach
Like 1% of college basketball players go on to play professionally. The coaches are actively working in their profession.
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@DavidGPuppet @MiniHoopsAlert There's another $50 million in tourney game units they want to capture for their conferences before the current TV contract expires.
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@MiniHoopsAlert Why would they want to get rid of them if they've already made them a complete non-factor anyway?
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If you still doubt that the endgame is bringing the FBS/FCS format to CBB, I don’t know what to tell you.
They want to get rid of mid-majors & Cinderella. It’s horrible.
Chatterbox Sports@CBoxSports
"Utah State is a Top 30 job in America... but I can tell you this: when we got the #9 seed after winning 28 games and a regular season and tournament title, that was pretty telling. The game has changed, college basketball has changed forever." -Jerrod Calhoun
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@heitner When groups control access to market price signals, there is no free market. CB is just another way to keep market price signals opaque by rigging prices. This is why some govt regulation is needed.
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There’s no enforceable cap on payments. It’s reasonable to expect the money spent on college athletes to increase on a YOY basis. Data indicating an increase of roughly 35% in spend is great for players.
As payments continue to increase, it could disincentivize players to agree to collectively bargain for hard caps.
Schools may want to come around to the concept of collective bargaining sooner rather than later (assuming a large unit of athletes even wants it).
Evan Miyakawa@EvanMiya
Based on early input from teams using the Front Office Suite at EvanMiya.com, this year's NIL market for Division 1 players is up *roughly* 35% from last year. If a player was worth 1 million in the 2025 offseason, he'd be evaluated around 1.35 million today.
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Detroit-Mercy almost just made it to the tourney yall supposed to run it back 🤦🏿♂️
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@Mr704intheQC Exactly. The beauty of March Madness was that smaller, lesser known schools, like UNCC with Cornbread Maxwell could have a real chance to win it all. That's why the tourney became very popular.
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People that don’t have a passionate following of their Alma mater “great games are all that matter”
Fans, donors and supporters of THEIR school “who cares if other games are great. We care about our school and opportunities for schools like ours”
That’s the disconnect.
Barstool Sports@barstoolsports
People Have To Stop Complaining That The NCAA Tournament Is 'Ruined' Because We Don't Have A Cinderella Story. Great Games Matter Way More s.barstool.link/c/article-3565…
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@heitner Yes it has, but your argument doesn't acknowledge that college sports includes more than just 50 well known colleges and more sports than just football & hoops. Also, if they're engaged in labor, then so are the chess, robotics & debate teams.
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The transfer portal hasn’t “screwed up college sports.” Failing to negotiate terms with the athletes (the labor) has made it uncomfortable for certain college sports executives.
Tommy Tuberville’s bill is simple: Place anticompetitive restrictions on athletes and let the rich (coaches, athletic directors, etc.) get richer.
This will “fix” the issues of control that leaders should have never possessed absent bargaining with athletes.
Tommy Tuberville@CoachForGov
The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today.
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@ClayTravis An average of 5-7 million viewers per game given that 2 or 3 games were usually being televised at the same time.
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The NCAA Tourney keeps setting records. Most watched EVER for opening Thursday to Sunday of the tourney. It turns out, people still like basketball. Take note of what happens when you just play basketball and give us zero woke politics, NBA.
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@slmandel So, from 5-9 pm ET last Sunday, an average of 6.6 million people were estimated to have watched each of the 3 games that were on at the same time. For the entire weekend, on average, about 5 million watched each game. Still good, but not as great as first appears.
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@kendallbaker @MattGrossenbach @BarstoolBigCat In the 80s and 90s players earned high wage summer job money even when they sat out a transfer year.
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@MattGrossenbach @BarstoolBigCat Having to sit out a year while earning $0 as a college student (the old way) is a very effective deterrent to mobility.
Getting paid big $$ to transfer schools and having immediate eligibility (the new way) is a very effective incentive.
It’s a completely different world
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“NIL killed Cinderella” is really just nostalgia for a system where players couldn’t get paid and had no mobility.
Of course mid-major stars stayed put back then… they had no choice.
Now they do… and suddenly March Madness is “ruined”? It’s far more nuanced than that.
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@kendallbaker You do realize that players were paid via high wage summer jobs in the '80s & 90s? And they could still play 4 years even if they transferred once & sat out? But the tourney was more popular then cuz more schools had a chance. Now, the system seems rigged.
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@AaronGogley In 2009, Butler's undergrad enrollment was about 4500. In the 2-3 years after it almost won the 2010 NCAA, undergrad enrollment increased about 8% to 4900. Now, it's back to about 4500.
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Let fanboy here describe the "Flutie Effect” when telling me how misinformed I am about college admissions.
HighPointHoops@HighPointHoops
@denverrefugee @AaronGogley He is totally uninformed
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@TrojanWallF5 He has mistaken the rich fat ugly stepsister for the poor servant girl.
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Dude if you ever had your own network you can’t possibly be a Cinderella.
SEC teams by default aren’t Cinderellas.
Sam Block@theblockspot
Texas is an 11-seed. Texas went 9-9 in the SEC. Texas played in the First Four. School size means nothing. Texas is absolutely a real Cinderella.
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@theblockspot Cinderella's pretentious stepmother & stepsisters did things to keep her from enjoying their preferred status. Iowa & Texas are just part of the same pretentious family (P5) that has rigged who gets to attend the ball.
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@PaulZeise What made the tournament great was that so many more teams from many different types of colleges could win it. That fact increased attendance & TV viewership. Now, under the new ratings system, it's celebrated when viewers are 80-90% of 40 year old stats under old system.
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“Cinderella” has never been what makes the tournament great. What makes the tournament great is the best players on the best teams competing for the ultimate trophy. We should be celebrating the fact that the power teams are dominating it
Jeff Eisenberg@JeffEisenberg
Only four double-digit seeds made the round of 32. Two hail from the SEC. On another NCAA tournament favoring teams with deep pockets, not glass slippers. sports.yahoo.com/mens-college-b…
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@peteybuckets Plus now the P5 can stash two more paid players on their rosters and keep them from playing for other teams.
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I think it's more the transfer portal than NIL. The filtering mechanism to get the best players to the top teams has never been more efficient.
Jeff Goodman@GoodmanHoops
Favorites went 16-0 yesterday. This year's first round had 13 of 32 games decided by 20+ points. High Point only true mid-major still alive, and its NIL is probably most of any team in 1-bid league. I hate to admit it, but due to NIL & transfer portal, Cinderellas may be dead.
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@NILnotNLI The NIT lost luster when enough fans figured out the selections & seedings were rigged to funnel cash back to certain favorites.
The NCAA has now fallen into a similar trap. It has a short time to fix it before its value starts to erode.
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Hard to watch the NCAA Tournament today and not feel like our kids are being cheated out of the magic this event once had.
They’ll never truly experience the NCAA Tournament as it was meant to be.
Yeah, of course big money programs always won most of the time, but there at least was a *sense* of competitive integrity prior to this Portal/NIL era.
Today, these kids are watching a model where any Cinderella story is being phased out quite literally by design.
Oh, unrelated, pass the SCORE Act ASAP.
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@DontAtMeDD @GottliebShow @dandakich Also, if a P5 drops down 2 or 3 quads & buys a home W, it still counts as a W. If a Quad 3 or 4 MM does the same thing with a D2 team, it doesn't count as a win in the NET. Yet the assumed talent disparities are very similar.
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@DontAtMeDD @GottliebShow @dandakich SOS and Quad wins are not valid differentiators between mediocre P5s and high W MMs for at large bids cuz the MMs never get home games vs top P5s while the mediocre P5 does get them. The issue is the data's validity, not whether scheduling should be changed.
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How are mid-majors supposed to get Quad 1 wins… if power programs won’t even play them?
@GottliebShow exposes the scheduling scam to @dandakich
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@GottliebShow Your point here shows why SOS & Quad Ws are bogus stats. Issue is: do strong MM records merit more at large bids vs mediocre P5s in a 68 team field. The scheduling realities make SOS & Quads bad stats to use for these decisions cuz they create P5 confirmation bias.
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