Congrats to little brother UTC Mocs, NIT Champs

[VolPack22]

Less “meaningless” than staying home? You make it sound like they turned down the Big Dance. I remember the loaded Mocs squad headed by Gerald Wilkins who fell to Louisville in the NIT. That team went on to win the NC the next season with Never Nervous Pervis Ellison…the last NC Denny Crum won. Winning something “meaningless” never hurts you taking the next step

It’s a nice stepping stone tournament.

 

[butchna]

It’s a nice stepping stone tournament.

Allz I’m saying. No one will remember who won this year’s NIT…cept the players and fans. Who else matters?

 

[GVF]

(Reaching for a metaphor...)
As fans, when we become focused on the "technically best" of whatever, we end up at super exotic performance car races.

But if our focus is on competitiveness... any race featuring any class of cars can be just as entertaining as another. It depends only on the drivers.

So if you enjoy the drama of humans competing under pressure, the NIT is as good as the NCAA product.

Personally, if I had television, I'd prefer a return to more ABC Wide World of Sports and less ESPN Networks. But expect that, if you're in your 30s, in your lifetime you will be witness to controversy over whether neuro-linked athletes should be allowed to compete equally with un-augmented humans.
(If we have a choice on remaining un-augmented.)

The best there was back in the the 70's/80's. Nothing like the weekly WWS broadcast. Shame the format has never been revived. It'd get my viewership.

 

[BruisedOrange]

The best there was back in the the 70's/80's. Nothing like the weekly WWS broadcast. Shame the format has never been revived. It'd get my viewership.

Agree. But maybe it was revived... and just renamed YouTube.

Unfortunately, Nordic Ski Jumping was replaced with cats being cats, and the Harlem Globetrotters was replaced with every conceivable way to take a shot to the 'nads.

(On balance, though, through YouTube I have taken the equivalent of every college or graduate course that I wished had ever been offered, and repaired everything that I would have asked my Dad if he was still alive.)