OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

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If you are going to have money involved as a prize for winning the “championship” then you need to have a traditional bracket. Michigan/Kansas and Gonzaga/Tennessee should be playing each other in the semifinals and then the winners of those games would play the championship and the losers would play the 3rd place game. With how outspoken Volnation is, I bet they change their format going forward.
 
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VolPack22 said:
If you are going to have money involved as a prize for winning the “championship” then you need to have a traditional bracket. Michigan/Kansas and Gonzaga/Tennessee should be playing each other in the semifinals and then the winners of those games would play the championship and the losers would play the 3rd place game. With how outspoken Volnation is, I bet they change their format going forward.
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Good grief. American sports rules in holiday tournaments don't revolve around VolNation... Just because fans got Schiano run off before he got here doesn't mean we rule the world.


Btw: if they do change something it WILL NOT be because of the loud mouth toxic fans on Twitter....
 
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This is the first time I truly believe we could have a National Championship Mens Basketball team... We got huge depth in the low post a shutdown defender on the perimeter and not one but two closers in crunch time...

Last two seasons I couldn't say that but we still made it to the EE...
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Good grief. American sports rules in holiday tournaments don't revolve around VolNation... Just because fans got Schiano run off before he got here doesn't mean we rule the world.


Btw: if they do change something it WILL NOT be because of the loud mouth toxic fans on Twitter....
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Not saying we rule world but if enough bad publicity is brought to the issue at hand then you will either have programs not want to participate in your tournament or it will force you to change your format.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Not saying we rule world but if enough bad publicity is brought to the issue at hand then you will either have programs not want to participate in your tournament or it will force you to change your format.
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Usually but every team that played in the tournament gets a $1 million dollars for their players NIL ... Plus if your team qualifies for last 4 your team wins more money... That's enough motivation to get you to bring your team plus great competition before league play.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Usually but every team that played in the tournament gets a $1 million dollars for their players NIL ... Plus if your team qualifies for last 4 your team wins more money... That's enough motivation to get you to bring your team plus great competition before league play.
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And, they knew the tournament rules, prior to accepting the invite.
 
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Here are some more details on the tournament. $30 M in total dollars awarded.

I can see this growing into a huge event.

basketballsphere.com

Players Era Championship schedule - Basketball Sphere

Best teams in the country will come togheter because of the Players Era Championship tournament in Las Vegas, NV. Here's the schedule.
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VolPack22 said:
The real losers are Iowa State. They won both of their games too but they miss out on more money because of 2 points so Kansas gets the nod. That’s a great way to make a lot of people pissed off whenever that kind of money is being thrown around.
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Can't make everyone happy in this tournament..btw I really don't like the tournament only thing it's doing is hurting the other holiday tournaments by taking away the big name teams that usually play in their tournament..

Look at the field in Maui and the Battle in the Bahamas.. bunch of mid tier teams...
 
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VolPack22 said:
The real losers are Iowa State. They won both of their games too but they miss out on more money because of 2 points so Kansas gets the nod. That’s a great way to make a lot of people pissed off whenever that kind of money is being thrown around.
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They sure are! What a buncha losers…
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Volpack believes everything should be FAIR in the sports world...🤣🤣
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The games themselves and tournaments should be fair, yes. I realize there is no way to make all the other axillary things in college sports fair whenever it is the Wild West. However, it makes zero sense to format a tournament in such a way that you can have five 2-0 teams but only two of them get to play for the championship. But I guess nobody organizing that tournament thought to ask themselves that question so they just went with the arbitrary point differential as the tiebreaker.
 
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