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Once again, we have quite an amusing thread....
It sounds to me that Virginia went into the CBI with the same reasoning as BU: it's an opportunity for our guys, especially our seniors, to keep playing anf for our fans to see more games.
To give their players and their seniors the opportunity to keep playing, it cost them money, that's a fact. They knew going in they were going to take a bath, but it was more important to them that their guys keep playing and the fans get to see more games than the fact they might lose money. Now, we've got people crapping all over them for giving the players and fans more games, knowing full well they were going to lose money?!?!?! I think it's fantastic that UVA (and other schools, maybe even BU?) made the decision to get in, regardless of the bottom line. Sometimes doing the "right" thing isn't always the "profitable" thing.
As far as the headlines of the articles, I think it's pretty fair to say that UVA doesn't dictate to or is able to control what the writers write or how they "sell" the story. It's much more shocking to mention the money aspect than the "feel good" aspect of getting the players and fans more games.
And as far as the comment regarding the 60K fee being interpreted as a whine, all he's saying is that many schools will balk at that and reject the tourney just on that fact alone. I think we can all agree with some degree of certainty that there were schools approached this year who cited that exact reason to the Gazelle Group when they turned them down. Another way to interpret his statement is, "We had the ability to eat the costs for this, but other schools might not. The large buy-in costs are a factor when attempting to draw in the programs to the tourney." He's throwing out a suggestion/way for the tournament to stay viable for the future and draw in more schools and it gets called whining? Man that's some stretching......
We beat Virginia, it was a good win, but why do some feel the need to take cheap shots at them, also? Does it make our win feel that much more impressive? Do we feel that much better about ourselves, now? Are we soooo much more virtuous than an ACC school?
It sounds to me that Virginia went into the CBI with the same reasoning as BU: it's an opportunity for our guys, especially our seniors, to keep playing anf for our fans to see more games.
To give their players and their seniors the opportunity to keep playing, it cost them money, that's a fact. They knew going in they were going to take a bath, but it was more important to them that their guys keep playing and the fans get to see more games than the fact they might lose money. Now, we've got people crapping all over them for giving the players and fans more games, knowing full well they were going to lose money?!?!?! I think it's fantastic that UVA (and other schools, maybe even BU?) made the decision to get in, regardless of the bottom line. Sometimes doing the "right" thing isn't always the "profitable" thing.
As far as the headlines of the articles, I think it's pretty fair to say that UVA doesn't dictate to or is able to control what the writers write or how they "sell" the story. It's much more shocking to mention the money aspect than the "feel good" aspect of getting the players and fans more games.
And as far as the comment regarding the 60K fee being interpreted as a whine, all he's saying is that many schools will balk at that and reject the tourney just on that fact alone. I think we can all agree with some degree of certainty that there were schools approached this year who cited that exact reason to the Gazelle Group when they turned them down. Another way to interpret his statement is, "We had the ability to eat the costs for this, but other schools might not. The large buy-in costs are a factor when attempting to draw in the programs to the tourney." He's throwing out a suggestion/way for the tournament to stay viable for the future and draw in more schools and it gets called whining? Man that's some stretching......
We beat Virginia, it was a good win, but why do some feel the need to take cheap shots at them, also? Does it make our win feel that much more impressive? Do we feel that much better about ourselves, now? Are we soooo much more virtuous than an ACC school?
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