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**tornado** · 03-18-2006, 08:54 PM

This isn't just a smack down by the MVC of the SEC or other east coast conference, it is a victory for those who are equal in playing ability but just don't get all the butt-likin' coverage like Dickie V and Billy P give to their beloved ACC teams.

Bye, bye Bruce Pearl, I will be interested to see how you do next year when you don't have all those fine recruits Buzz Peterson brought in and you have to play with your mid-major caliber recruits.

**TRIMAN** · 03-18-2006, 10:49 PM

Originally posted by tornado

This isn't just a smack down by the MVC of the SEC or other east coast conference, it is a victory for those who are equal in playing ability but just don't get all the butt-likin' coverage like Dickie V and Billy P give to their beloved ACC teams.

Bye, bye Bruce Pearl, I will be interested to see how you do next year when you don't have all those fine recruits Buzz Peterson brought in and you have to play with your mid-major caliber recruits.

Dickie V has said a lot of good things about the MVC. Please don't throw him under the bus with Packer and Digger (who threw some praise at Bradley last night

). DV loves Duke, but they are a GREAT program-great coach, great recruiting, and they play the right way. He still watches other teams and will comment positively on them as opposed to watching one game and then making a blanket statement about the conference (Digger) or watching no games and crying (Packer).

**threeeleven** · 03-19-2006, 01:43 AM

dick v is goin nuts look at this http://espn.go.com/dickvitale/060319...onWichita.html

**Big Mike** · 03-19-2006, 02:00 AM

Nice win by the shocks and a good review by DV ........also didn't DV pick the Braves for the upset against KU!

**tornado** · 03-19-2006, 08:18 AM

Originally posted by TRIMAN

Dickie V has said a lot of good things about the MVC. Please don't throw him under the bus with Packer and Digger ....

First Dickie V doesn't have a lot of things to say about the Valley.
He hardly ever talks about them or mentions them until they step up and smack him in the face.
The guy is a reporter so he has to mention them when they get to the Sweet Sixteen, but find me the evidence he has ever said much about them all year long!!!!!

He is so enamored with Duke that 85% of everything he ever says is about Duke or the ACC.
Even when he's broadcasting a game between two totally unrelated teams he still gabs on about Duke, the ACC, JJ redick, or Coach K.

Among all the national sports writers, the only one who has even taken note of the Valley has been Gregg Doyel.
The rest may make mention of them on a slow reporting day like a Thursday morning, but otherwise, there is so much of an east coast bias it isn't even funny.

Nearly 30 of the original 65 teams was an east coast team, and 10 more were Big Ten and Big XII teams.

Now there are only 24 teams left, and guess what??
Only 9 of the remaining teams are east coast teams, and
only one is left from the Big XII and 1 left from the Big Ten!!!!
Of the remaining 24 teams, a fourth of them are the mid-majors who got mostly terrible seeds (George Mason, Bucknell, Bradley, Memphis, Gonzaga, & Northwestern State.)

And how sweet was that win in the NIT by Manhattan over the #1 seeded, and pampered Maryland??
Maryland was guaranted top seed 3 home games in the NIT just so their coach wouldn't whine, and they got to play in their own arena where they hadn't lost a nonconference home game in four years!!!
But the fans didn't show up any more than the Maryland team did!!!!
I know the writers' love affair with the ACC and Big East isn't going to change soon, but I am sure having fun spoiled coaches like Gary Williams, Bruce Pearl, Bo Ryan, Tom Izzo, Bill Self, Stevie Alford, and Jim Boeheim et served notice that they don't rule the NCAA.

**BU fan** · 03-19-2006, 09:08 AM

Maryland had only lost 2 previous nonconference home games in coach Gary Williams' 17 seasons. They lost to Coppin State in 1989 at Cole Field House and to Florida in 2002 at Comcast Center before yesterday's loss to Manhattan.

**TRIMAN** · 03-19-2006, 01:01 PM

Originally posted by tornado

Originally posted by TRIMAN

Dickie V has said a lot of good things about the MVC. Please don't throw him under the bus with Packer and Digger ....

First Dickie V doesn't have a lot of things to say about the Valley.
He hardly ever talks about them or mentions them until they step up and smack him in the face.
The guy is a reporter so he has to mention them when they get to the Sweet Sixteen, but find me the evidence he has ever said much about them all year long!!!!!

ESPN.com - Dick Vitale - Missouri Valley Conference wants to Dance

http://espn.go.com/dickvitale/060307VitaleonMissouriValleyConference.html

Dick Vitale ponders how many teams from the Missouri Valley Conference will make the Big Dance.

Dick Vitale column from March 7. You're welcome.