30% still pretty good

[VromanFan]

Re: 30% still pretty good

So yeah, 3 bids sounds right. As of right now.

I'd be curious as to anyone else's opinion. Thanks for letting me ramble.

You must be a cheap date, but you should be more demanding.

Last year the Valley got 4 bids and proved beyond question that those bids were worthy of being in the NCAA Tourney.

This year the Valley is even stronger top to bottom.

At least 6 of the Valley teams are among the top 64 teams in the nation. The Valley as a conference has hovered between 3rd and 5th in RPI all season, and recall that the RPI is the very formula that all the BCS boys devised to show how much their 2nd through 6th teams deserved NCAA bids ahead of the 2nd best guys in smaller conferences.

The Marylands and the talking heads don't want you to know this, but...........
The best 6 teams in the MVC have been routinely knocking off some of the BCS guys all year. Those teams belong in the NCAA.

The heck with this 3-bid argument, I think the MVC deserves 6 bids, but I'd be happy with 5.

Trust me, I'd love the MVC to get more than three. But it IS actually about the teams. Do you honestly think WSU, UNI, or BU deserve a bid if the season ended today? That's my proposition you don't really question. If you think they do tell me why, I'd be curious as to your opinion.

The top 64 of the RPI is not a meaningful statistic....with all the auto bids you are looking at about the top 40 RPI if you want to be an at large (if they look at the RPI). Are those three schools in the top 30 or 40 RPI (I honestly don't know)?

Well, interesting stuff.


The conference doesn't earn bids. The teams within it do. Last year we should have had 5 or 6. Agreed.

 

[TheAsianSensation]

Last year we deserved 5.

Right now, this year, we deserve 3.

It's that simple. In principle, a conference of our status deserves 4. But it doesn't work that way.