Re: MVC Tourney - stay in STL or rotate?
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 11:56 am
TylerDurden wrote:SubGod22 wrote:Instead, we risk being forgotten in all the excitement that is that championship weekend.
Are you suggesting the MVC would get 1) a good tv time slot or 2) exposure on the final weekend, competing head-to-head with the Big East, Big Ten, ACC, SEC, Pac 10, and Big 12?
For me, I'd rather keep a mid-day Sunday time slot on CBS than play the 'what if' game of moving a successful event to a weekend that wouldn't show much benefit, except for a quicker turnaround for the NCAA Tournament and possibly fan attrition.
I don't buy the idea that we're going to get more teams in by playing the last weekend.
Missouri State was still out in 06 and 07, ISU in 08, Creighton in 09 and WSU in 10. None of those teams were going to get in by moving the date.
Besides that, we've had some nice runs in the tournament once our teams are there. I, for one, think the extra week to keep the legs fresh really benefits the teams good enough to advance.
Agree 100%