Let the Valley bashing begin...

[TheAsianSensation]

The problem with these guys is the people above them.

Why do Digger and friends talk ad nauseum about BCS schools? That's what they're being told to do.

ESPN cares about ratings. More people will tune in if they talk about more recognizable schools. Sure, Butler may be great, but if they get more ratings when they talk about the SEC bubble.....they're going to talk about that instead.

The producers are telling the analysts what to talk about - for the sake of ratings. And it's a trickle down effect to the point where the mid-majors get shafted as far as the media goes.

In the end, it's about $$$$$, just not in the way you think it is.


p.s. Bilas has been on the anti-RPI bandwagon for awhile. Just because he uses a MVC team as his example doesn't mean he hates everything mid-major. Geez, what a knee-jerk reaction. Every mid-major fan just waits to pounce on anything and everything anyone says, don't they?

p.p.s. Bilas is really good as an in-game color commentator. He should stick to that and let the posturing of bids be done by our friend Digger.

p.p.p.s. Dick Vitale is actually one of the good eggs when it comes to supporting mid majors. It's just that he's so horrible at color commentary that we forget about it.

[TheAsianSensation]

Another point: We've always had 2 groups: 1 group who support the RPI and 1 group who don't.

I don't think there's flip floppers in the 2 groups. They stay in their camp.

Obviously, 10 years ago, the RPI supported the BCS schools, and the complaints about the RPI from the other group were drowned out.

Today, we just assume that everyone has jumped from one group to the other.

Misconception!

[Dallas Brave]

Up first - Jay Bilas of ESPN. Jay is calling for the end of the RPI, and uses Drake as his prime example.

... But, if Purdue has played the same schedule as Drake and was 16-1, do you think anyone would be saying that the Boilermakers would be in? I doubt it. I think we would be questioning the schedule and whether Purdue had beaten anyone.

Jay Bilas is an unadulterated dolt by claiming that if Purude was 16-1, people would be questioning if Purdue should be in the tournament. No one would be questioning it. What a ******************** numbskull!

[BradleyBrave]

Jay Bilas is an unadulterated dolt by claiming that if Purude was 16-1, people would be questioning if Purdue should be in the tournament. No one would be questioning it. What an ********************!

Exactly. There isn't one talking head that would question a 16-1 BCS team, regardless of who they played.

[BU ICEMAN]

Ya know, I think they've got us right where they want us. If they can keep causing all this controversy, we're gonna keep paying attention to them to see what they say next. Think about it, the big schools already have big fanbases too, so you don't need to whip them up in a frenzy like you do with the folks at the smaller/m-m schools, right? You can say they've already cornered that market and to foster problems is a way to maintain/drum up interest from all involved.

[tornado]

Yup...agree...........
Kansas is 20-1 and their Strength of Schedule is 48,
but there are people who think they should get a #1 seed!

[pfunk880]

That's ridiculous. You need some statistical measure to compare teams because it's obviously impossible to see every game.

[Guinness]

They're just sick of having to pay attention to mid-majors and want to only pay attention/give praise to the schools they like/pay them the most. This is media, its nothing new. Now our teams need to take the basketball and shove it up their collective asses and prove them wrong.