Kansas AD says the top schools (BCS) will break away from NCAA

[Bravesfan]

I'm with ya HoustonTx. I was suggesting the CBS 16 Tourney would be BCS only teams. You know - like Bilas said, there's REALLY only about 16 teams that can win the whole thing in a field of 65. So why bother with the Murray St's and UNI's. If there were to be one this year, Kansas woulda been invited to the 16 team Invitational and not UNI.

And the money will drive it.

And I say let them have it. Let it ruin itself and pretty soon people will become less interested like all the empty seats at some NBA games.

I agree. If the BCS contingent wants to break away from the rest of the NCAA, then I say let them shove off!

I will continue to support Bradley and what's left of the Valley whether they are part of the BCS or not. I know we won't get quite the quality of players that the BCS teams will, but Bradley can still be part of a very competitive "Division I-AA" type of setup, probably amongst the upper echelon of teams. We can still play a competitve schedule against the likes of Old Dominion, Kent St., Siena, Davidson and Oral Roberts amongst others, and I predict we will still draw about as well as any of these teams outside of maybe a few teams in our own conference. Plus you have two built-in existing tournaments that will probably form the basis for a Division I-AA postseason tournament in the CBI and CIT. So I say to the BCS, come and take all the teams you want. WE DON'T NEED YOU!

Come to think of it, maybe we shouldn't have turned down this year's CBI or CIT after all!

[Bravesfan]

Quite a doomsday outlook - but I believe you are right.

And I will no longer follow college hoops.

I already can't stand any of the pro sports. Losing college hoops would be sad, but I'll get over it.

Let 'em have it and ruin it and in a few years they will be wondering why nobody follows it as much.

Well I'll still follow Bradley basketball and whomever would remain in a "realigned" Missouri Valley Conference. And I know there are plenty of loyal fans in Division II and Division III as well. But a Division I-AA type of setup (see my above post) will still draw some decent crowds, especially amongst the mid-major powers that won't be joining the BS.....I mean BCS. I think we will still witness some pretty competitive basketball, just without our chance of beating some of the best teams in the country.

[Bravesfan]

I'm obviously not so sure. The problem is that whatever sport BU plays a national championship for will be played, at a higher level, by the 64 teams that make the split. There's going to be absolutely no revenue or TV for them because ESPN and the like will broadcast the higher level instead of the NCAA level.

A school like BU can survive that, I think, though. Valley schools, being in markets where they're the main attraction, can. Other schools, not so much.

If other teams can form contracts to broadcast games on cable to larger markets like Bradley did in showing their games in the Chicago market through Comcast, then they can get the necessary revenue to help them not only survive, but thrive. And I believe more of the smaller schools than many believe will keep their sports going because not everyone who plays college sports has intentions of going professional.

Think of the NCAA level of sports as the "intramural" level while the BCS level would be the "Triple A" level.