I think it certainly crushes the notion that you can't look at the numbers and be able to accurately reflect who's a good basketball team and who's not. You need to take a step back and not look at mere brand recognition, if you will. |
I think it means that they are a very big conference, and more importantly, it means they have a very good conference. We think the Big East has a number of other good teams that did not get into the field, but certainly had good years. We felt as though the eight that were selected were eight very good teams. It's only of consequence that they happen to be from one conference. |
I think it means, No. 1, they are a very big conference; I think more importantly it means they have a very good conference. And I think what we saw in terms of the Big East this year, it created some very, very unusual challenges for us as we looked at this era of imbalance in conference scheduling. |
I think it's been pretty clear from the committee over time that we're not going to be impressed with records that are somewhat artificially built. If we're comparing six or eight teams and two have put together a schedule of rigor where they play home and away from home, the committee is going to go with teams that have challenged themselves. |
I think it's pretty doggone solid, that's for sure. |
I think seeding will be a challenge and as I almost daily go through my own personal seeding process here, teams are moving up and down and horizontally as teams don't run the table. The problem isn't only going to be on the 8-9 lines, but on other lines as well. |
I think seeding will be a challenge. … The problem isn't only going to be on the 8-9 lines, but on other lines as well. |
I think that was really the new path we had to go down. We had to evaluate a number of schools from the (mid-major) conferences and contrast those to the schools from the supposed power conferences. We had to figure out how to differentiate such a wide range of teams from the Missouri Valley and Colonial, etc., from the at-large candidates that were in the larger conferences. |
I think that would be a pretty strong resume & for the University of Virginia, for Maryland, for Colorado, for whoever the school might be. That sort of profile in our level of league, I believe, would be a good resume. |
I think the other side of that is, it's not always the best thing when friends are working together. There could be the tendency for objectivity to be lost in that sort of situation. When people have worked together in a past life and then get back together under different circumstances, it doesn't always work out. |
I think we are comfortable that the modifications have done a lot of what we had hoped. I would think that one of the unintended consequences ... would encourage teams from other parts of the country to play away from home. |
I think we would need to take a look at where the games are played, particularly in situations where there would be one play between two conference members with identical records. The statistics in all circumstances would favor the home team. So, if two teams with 9-7 records played each other once, chances are the home team is going to win that game. We would have to continue to dig in terms of trying to come up with some sort of tiebreaker that would allow us to come up with some determination as to which is the better team. |
I think what we have to have are more conversations about the partnership and how we need to work better together a little bit. |
I wanted a coach whose team would rebound relentlessly. And they rebound the heck out of the basketball. |
I'd be a little surprised to learn of any top-level program in the area that didn't highly consider him for a job. |