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  1. Derwood
    It beats having a arena full of old people who sit and clap politely (i.e Assembly Hall in Bloomington when I was in school). or having the front 10 rows reserved for alumni who never come to games (like at PSU)
  2. Derwood
    The host school would be pissing away tons of money for no reason. Neither has anything to benefit from playing a home game offsite. there are a crapload of Notre Dame alum in Chicago, that's all I'm saying
  3. Derwood
    Notre Dame vs. Michigan would be a better game and a better draw
  4. Derwood
    the whole "student section going 'ohhhhhhhhhhhh' the whole game" thing is played out
  5. Derwood
    more importantly for Bonds, they help you heal more quickly. His knees would have disintegrated a few years earlier without the clear
  6. Derwood
    one could also argue that thursday is not on the weekend. but i dont like your idea. make the play in game between two teams from bad conferences that shouldnt have won their conference tourney. what if the regular season winner of every "bad conference" wins their conference tourney in a given year? well then someone gets screwed. this would be ok with me, no 16 has ever won anyway. then why not go all BCS on the tourney and kick out all the "bad conferences" and fill the field up with the majors?
  7. Derwood
    one could also argue that thursday is not on the weekend. but i dont like your idea. make the play in game between two teams from bad conferences that shouldnt have won their conference tourney. what if the regular season winner of every "bad conference" wins their conference tourney in a given year?
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    Aaron Miles
  9. Derwood
    the stuff Jehrico quoted was indeed stupid, as a hard salary floor/ceiling like the NBA/NFL would have to include those league's versions of revenue sharing, thus removing the concern over the Mets/Yankees stadiums giving a pair of teams "unfair" new revenues. In the NFL, a new stadium means every team benefits, not just the one who built it.
  10. Derwood
    The Big East has yet to get more than 8 teams in the tournament, and the only year they've gotten that many, the eighth made the Sweet 16. Meanwhile, 24 was the smallest margin of victory for a 1 over a 16 in round 1. Yeah but Derwood doesn't seem to be arguing the competitiveness angle all that much. I do agree with him that the conference tournament champions should all retain their normal automatic bid rather than having to participate in a play in game. Besides having the last two at large candidates battle each other in the play in game would be infinitely more exciting than the current set up. that's another good point. Would you rather see Mt. St. Mary's vs. SE Louisiana Tech in the play-in game, or, say, Villanova vs. Clemson?
  11. Derwood
    That could be hell in early April if its a long winter and will be hell in the summer when it's 90 degrees with 95 percent humidity. in other words, Chicago
  12. Derwood
    IBL
  13. Derwood
    and now he's broken
  14. Derwood
    because it's not about making the tournament "better", it's about applying the same rules to everyone. The NCAA decided they couldn't live without the 9th place Big East team in the tournament so they told two conferences "hey, sorry, you suck, so have fun in Dayton". it's just about being fair with the rules.
  15. Derwood
    Dusty Baker lead us to Game 7 of the NLCS, Lou to two 3 and out NLDS losses. Thus, Baker >>>>> Lou It's basic math
  16. Derwood
    This is fine with me, but a better idea is to cut the # of at-large bids to 33. I would much rather see a team like Villanova (last year) get in than some sacrificial 16th seed that's going to lose by 30 in the first round. They were possibly the last team in last year and got to the Sweet 16. Changing it so the play-in game is between bubble teams just means a team that was a 16 seed will now be a 15 seed. Plus it would be more difficult to determine the seed and how they would fit in the bracket with the rules they have in place. as I said, make two bubble teams play-in for a #12 or #11 seed. It's pretty crappy to tell two schools who earned their way into the tourney "sorry, we know you won, but really, you suck, so go play in Dayton" Too often, the bubble teams earned their way into the tourney far more than the play-in winners, normally middle of the road (at best) teams in their always-crappy conference that got hot for three days. tough. if winning your conference tournament is an automatic berth to the tourney, they shouldn't have to win an extra game to get to the weekend. it's crap. In most cases, the bubble teams are on the bubble because they lost some games they shouldn't have. It doesn't really make a difference to me whether the Big East gets 8 teams in instead of 9.
  17. Derwood
    so because he did some things well means he's immune from criticism over the things he did poorly?
  18. Derwood
    This is fine with me, but a better idea is to cut the # of at-large bids to 33. I would much rather see a team like Villanova (last year) get in than some sacrificial 16th seed that's going to lose by 30 in the first round. They were possibly the last team in last year and got to the Sweet 16. Changing it so the play-in game is between bubble teams just means a team that was a 16 seed will now be a 15 seed. Plus it would be more difficult to determine the seed and how they would fit in the bracket with the rules they have in place. as I said, make two bubble teams play-in for a #12 or #11 seed. It's pretty crappy to tell two schools who earned their way into the tourney "sorry, we know you won, but really, you suck, so go play in Dayton"
  19. Derwood
    This is fine with me, but a better idea is to cut the # of at-large bids to 33. I also have no problem with that. I could go either way....cut the play-in game and reduce the # of at-larges, or play a bunch of play-in games on Tuesday between bubble teams with the winners getting 12 seeds
  20. Derwood
    I enjoy the Hot Stove show even thought I disagree with a lot of what they say. There was a great special on the '86 playoffs with interview clips from guys like Darryl Strawberry, Don Sutton and Wally Joyner. I hope they do more of these specials with the player perspective
  21. Derwood
    thats waisis. Well Lindsey Hunter is smart, but he isn't a guy. Derrick Rose is probably pretty smart, but when you are fantastic you don't have to use adjectives like "smart" to justify your place on a team. and Aaron Gray is white and DUMB. at least he looks dumb. it's so hard to tell with 7 foot white guys.
  22. Derwood
    we might have talked about this last year, but I think it's ridiculous that two conference tournament winners have to play the play-in game each year. I don't care if they're from the worst two RPI conferences, they earned their way to the weekend games. Make the play-in game be between two bubble teams
  23. Derwood
    Everyone (including myself) who didn't give this a chance forgot A.J. Smith - one of the dumber GMs out there, apparently - was making the decisions in San Diego. Why would people scoff at the idea that a team would give up on an expensive RB with a ton of miles on his legs who just can't stay healthy or produce anymore? If I could remember which thread I suggested it in, I could go find out. I know Truffle really though I was dumb for suggesting it.
  24. Derwood
    and people scoffed when I suggested that might happen
  25. Derwood
    the 1% who could OPS above .000 are those here who played in the SEC (better known as AA)
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