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The Dance
« on: March 15, 2015, 05:51:49 pm »
So, my Dayton Flyers got hosed.  I don't expect them to go Elite 8, or even Sweet 16 this year, but First Four?  FUCK YOU selection commitee.  UCLA is in....and safe? WTF?  And hell, even Texas is a bit of a shock.

That said, looking forward to the next month.  Plus, by the time the dust settles a real sport will have started its season.
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2015, 06:14:00 pm »
Quote from: Uncle Charlie on March 15, 2015, 05:51:49 pm
So, my Dayton Flyers got hosed.  I don't expect them to go Elite 8, or even Sweet 16 this year, but First Four?  FUCK YOU selection commitee.  UCLA is in....and safe? WTF?  And hell, even Texas is a bit of a shock.

That said, looking forward to the next month.  Plus, by the time the dust settles a real sport will have started its season.

I was surprised by UT. Not that they got in, but that they avoided the play-in games.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2015, 06:31:06 pm »
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2015, 06:35:23 am »
Quote from: Uncle Charlie on March 15, 2015, 05:51:49 pm
So, my Dayton Flyers got hosed.  I don't expect them to go Elite 8, or even Sweet 16 this year, but First Four?  FUCK YOU selection commitee. 

Dayton is in.  What's your beef?
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2015, 07:27:40 am »
Quote from: HudsonHawk on March 16, 2015, 06:35:23 am
Dayton is in.  What's your beef?

BTW, do you know the reason(s) House and Young left UH? That hurt.
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2015, 08:34:49 am »
Quote from: HudsonHawk on March 16, 2015, 06:35:23 am
Dayton is in.  What's your beef?

They have to play an extra game while others, less deserving, don't.
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2015, 10:13:27 am »
Quote from: Uncle Charlie on March 16, 2015, 08:34:49 am
They have to play an extra game while others, less deserving, don't.

So what?  Beat the teams in tournament if you want to win it. 
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2015, 10:14:44 am »
Quote from: Sphinx Drummond on March 16, 2015, 07:27:40 am
BTW, do you know the reason(s) House and Young left UH? That hurt.

I have no idea.
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2015, 10:39:45 am »
anyone interested in a bracket challenge among the OWA members?  I have set one up, just follow the link

http://owachallenge.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?ttag=BPM15_paste_cbsinv

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Re: The Dance
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2015, 11:07:20 am »
Quote from: Duman on March 16, 2015, 10:39:45 am
anyone interested in a bracket challenge among the OWA members?  I have set one up, just follow the link

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Re: The Dance
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2015, 01:32:28 pm »
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2015, 02:09:12 pm »
I'd just be making shit up.  I'd never do that to you people.
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2015, 02:15:04 pm »
Quote from: NeilT on March 16, 2015, 02:09:12 pm
I'd just be making shit up.  I'd never do that to you people.

And I'm not?  I don't even have TV anymore.
But I'm pretty confident the Horns can win the whole thing.
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2015, 02:42:17 pm »
John Oliver on the NCAA:

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Re: The Dance
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2015, 03:53:49 pm »
Quote from: Duman on March 16, 2015, 10:39:45 am
anyone interested in a bracket challenge among the OWA members?  I have set one up, just follow the link

http://owachallenge.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?ttag=BPM15_paste_cbsinv

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Re: The Dance
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2015, 09:04:35 am »
Quote from: Sphinx Drummond on March 16, 2015, 07:27:40 am
BTW, do you know the reason(s) House and Young left UH? That hurt.

Tashawn Thomas (key played for Oklahoma) leaving hurt the most.  Thomas and House left due to "advisers."  Young's dad and UH legend Micheal was on the coaching staff, then there was a riff and he was demoted, and he got Joe to transfer.  Joe actually started school at Providence, before coming to UH and then transferring to Oregon.  

House acted like a turd, don't miss him.  
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« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2015, 01:20:34 pm »
I Hate Christian Laettner on ESPN 30 for 30. It's pretty good. The focus is on Laettner and Duke of course but it offers a broader picture of the Golden Age of college basketball.
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« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2015, 02:07:35 pm »
Down goes Iowa State.  UAB trying on the slipper.
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« Reply #18 on: March 19, 2015, 02:46:28 pm »
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I'm in!

It's a rare feat to lose a final four pick in the very first game of the tournament. 
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #19 on: March 19, 2015, 02:58:35 pm »
Poor Baylor.  Should've had a stronger OOC schedule.
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« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2015, 03:31:51 pm »
so bracket busting has begun
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Re: The Dance
« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2015, 03:52:18 pm »
Apropos nothing, John Oliver rips the NCAA a new one [Language NSFW, long clip]

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During a segment that ran over 20 minutes, Oliver pointed out the following (or you could just watch it for yourself, at the bottom of the post):

That the tournament brings in over a billion dollars in ad revenue, about three times more than the Super Bowl and almost as much as an entire NFL slate of postseason games.

The endless number of official sponsorships of March Madness, all the way down to the ladders used to cut down the nets.

The way NCAA officials, in particular president Mark Emmert, hide behind the designation of players as “student-athletes,” as opposed to employees, and force athletes to sign a form affirming their status as amateurs.

A ridiculously long rulebook for players, containing endless possible infractions, and enforcement incidents that “go from the petty to the downright heartless.”

That the NCAA claims that its athletes are paid handsomely in the form of a great education, even as injured players lose scholarships and healthy players struggle to balance training sessions with classes and homework.

Cases such as the “shadow curriculum” at North Carolina, in which student-athletes take bogus classes designed to inflate grades and maintain eligibility for sports.

How the NCAA made money off players’ likenesses in video games, even after they had graduated and thus couldn’t be called “students” anymore, as brought to light in the lawsuit led by former UCLA star Ed O’Bannon.

That schools, as with many supposedly “non-profit” enterprises, can move money around or simply spend it wildly on massive stadiums and other lavish athletic facilities, in order to not have much by way of technical profit on their books.

Players may not get paid, but many of their coaches receive salaries well into the millions, in addition to other forms of compensation.

The mind-boggling gall of Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney, who makes over $3 million per year, saying, “As far as paying players, professionalizing college athletics, that’s where you lose me. I’ll go do something else, because, you know, there’s enough entitlement in this world as it is.”

That there is no lucrative, professional payday awaiting the overwhelming majority of college athletes.

The first president of the NCAA, Walter Byers, invented the term “student-athlete” in order to help schools avoid having to make workers’ compensation payments to injured athletes.
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« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2015, 03:58:27 pm »
Quote from: Bench on March 19, 2015, 02:46:28 pm
It's a rare feat to lose a final four pick in the very first game of the tournament. 

I am down to a sweet 14
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« Reply #23 on: March 19, 2015, 04:08:43 pm »
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« Reply #24 on: March 19, 2015, 07:12:30 pm »
Big 12 looking extra strong.
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« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2015, 09:30:38 pm »
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And with SFA's loss the state joins the university as spectators.
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« Reply #26 on: March 19, 2015, 09:39:23 pm »
I can't remember, did they play basketball in the Southwest Conference?
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« Reply #27 on: March 19, 2015, 09:46:10 pm »
Quote from: Duman on March 19, 2015, 02:07:35 pm
Down goes Iowa State.  UAB trying on the slipper.

That one hurt!
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« Reply #28 on: March 19, 2015, 10:16:19 pm »
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I can't remember, did they play basketball in the Southwest Conference?

Arkansas sure did.
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« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2015, 10:24:40 pm »
Quote from: NeilT on March 19, 2015, 09:39:23 pm
I can't remember, did they play basketball in the Southwest Conference?
Phi Slamma Jamma.
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« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2015, 07:04:43 am »
Quote from: Noe in Austin on March 19, 2015, 09:46:10 pm
That one hurt!

My son had them going to the finals.  He shares your pain.
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« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2015, 08:54:08 am »
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My son had them going to the finals.  He shares your pain.

I had both Baylor and Iowa State in the Final Four in my money bracket.
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« Reply #32 on: March 20, 2015, 10:31:18 am »
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I had both Baylor and Iowa State in the Final Four in my money bracket.

I think you ought to call it something else.
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« Reply #33 on: March 20, 2015, 12:27:06 pm »
Quote from: GreatBagwellsBeard on March 19, 2015, 02:58:35 pm
Poor Baylor.  Should've had a stronger OOC schedule.

That made me laugh. The game yesterday, not so much...  Bad day for teams from Texas - all 5 lost - first time that's happened (I saw 2 of 'em go down in person - actually thought SFA had a chance, but just couldn't get it going...).  Bad day for the Big 12 too...  Bad day for my brackets too... but on the bright side, only lost 3 Sweet 16 teams, 2 Elite 8 teams, and 1 Final Four team, so there is that... FML...
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« Reply #34 on: March 20, 2015, 01:49:32 pm »
Quote from: Duman on March 20, 2015, 07:04:43 am
My son had them going to the finals.  He shares your pain.

My best possible score based on having Iowa St. going to the final is well below everyone else in the OWA Challenge. Basically, you all would have to had made brain dead picks from here on out for me to have a chance. Iowa St. in the final? I'm dead meat!
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« Reply #35 on: March 20, 2015, 04:51:20 pm »
Jeez, how tall is this Ndiaye kid for UC-Irvine?
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« Reply #36 on: March 20, 2015, 05:36:30 pm »
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Jeez, how tall is this Ndiaye kid for UC-Irvine?

7'6", listed at 300 too, so he's not Manute Bol.

Was pulling for the Anteaters, REALLY hoping for the upset.  Turner went to my uni, was basically a GA when I was there. Us small school guys have to stick together.
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« Reply #37 on: March 28, 2015, 07:25:43 am »
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Big 12 looking smelling extra strong.

And down goes OU.
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« Reply #38 on: March 28, 2015, 06:24:41 pm »
I keep hearing unconfirmed reports that Rick Barns is out at Texas. If so it's the end of an era. He's been the best basketball coach in the school's history. A good man. He'll be a hard act to follow.
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« Reply #39 on: March 28, 2015, 06:40:50 pm »
I'll miss him, but it does seem like it's time for some new blood.
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« Reply #40 on: March 28, 2015, 06:53:42 pm »
one and done is just not the ut way
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« Reply #41 on: April 04, 2015, 10:47:36 pm »
Go Wisconsin!
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« Reply #42 on: April 05, 2015, 10:15:10 am »
is there any chance anyone still has a perfect bracket
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« Reply #43 on: April 05, 2015, 10:16:55 am »
wonder if anyone still has a perfect bracket
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