Changing the College BBall Schedule - Bring on May Madness!

[Cheeks]

I'll ask again. Are you familiar with the law of diminishing returns?

Adding the extra week would yield more money simply from an inventory perspective and if they did it right would make for some crazy games.  One theory would be to start it right away on Tuesday with the non bye teams and you don’t even add an extra week.  With so little time to prepare, it would be a free for all with upsets lurking. 

I would cap it at 96 to guarantee every reg season champion is given a shot.  That ensures the regular season remains viable.  Mid majors get the representation they are due, kill the NIT...could be done.  Logistically would need to set up Dayton like venues for those first two days.

[MuMark]

Any schedule change that gets rid of " Feast Week" is a no go for me........got to have CBB during Thanksgiving week...........I'd rather give up turkey!

[Not A Serious Person]

I'll ask again. Are you familiar with the law of diminishing returns?

Yes, and it does not apply here.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Yes, and it does not apply here.

Well it certainly applies. If it didn't, we would just make the tournament 365 days a year and include every team.

Now that doesn't mean that adding another week and bumping it to 96 teams would be a bad thing. I'd just need to see some research before I would see it one way or the other.

[MU82]

So the regular season is not that important.  It's all about the tourney.

So increase it to 96 or 128 games and take a month.

The only opinion I have offered is that it's not gonna happen so we might as well be discussing unicorns replacing athlete-students as players.

If they expand the number of teams in the tourney, great. If they don't, great. I like it the way it is, so for me it would be greatest if they keep it the way it is.

March Madness is so wonderful that it would be difficult even for the clueless yahoos who run things to screw it up.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Zero percent chance of happening.

Might as well have posted an article headlined, "Unicorns should replace humans as college basketball players," and asked us to discuss it.

What kind of necks do these unicorns have?

[MU82]

What kind of necks do these unicorns have?

Gotta ask MUFINY.

[WarriorFan]

Reg season very important.  Part of the process.  Games matter.  March is about the tournament, separate from regular season....both important.

or we could have each conference stage a meaningless conference tournament between the end of the season and the NCAA tournament - the one that really matters.

oops, wait, already did that!

at the end one does run out of way to contrive more basketball and more revenue from the situation.  more basketball without more revenue just won't happen.

i for one as a die hard hoops junkie would prefer that college basketball start as soon as the NBA playoffs are done and finish with the tournament before the NBA all-star break, so that there is never a day without basketball. 

[Benny B]

Zero percent chance of happening.

Might as well have posted an article headlined, "Unicorns should replace humans as college basketball players," and asked us to discuss it.

Who would be the players on our team?

Sam and Joey Horser
Jamal Rainbow
Sparkles Howard
Ed Marshmallow
Theo John

[MU82]

Who would be the players on our team?

Sam and Joey Horser
Jamal Rainbow
Sparkles Howard
Ed Marshmallow
Theo John

Magic Dawson
Tyler Horno
Jarrett Applejack
Unicornbread Maxwell
And, of course, Ners. I mean, there has to be one real baller on the team!

[Benny B]

Magic Dawson
Tyler Horno
Jarrett Applejack
Unicornbread Maxwell
And, of course, Ners. I mean, there has to be one real baller on the team!

Ah yes.... Unicornbread Maxwell.  But didn't he go on to make a fuss about that being his "white girl" name and change it to Earthblossom McFuchyourself?