BirdsEyeView wrote:Cdizzle wrote:BirdsEyeView wrote:You do not want to push it back a week, although I get the idea. The recency effect hurts our at large team's chances as we don't play for a week. The eye test gets forgetful as the committee starts to watch the Power 5 teams that went 7-11 in conference have a randomly decent conference tourney just to sneak into the field. Very frustrating.
Why not? Why play a compressed schedule compared to other teams in the country? You say we shouldn't do it, but then agree with my points.
Only due to CBS visibility for the finals. That's why I said no. If we can keep that game on the schedule the following weekend...then absolutely!
Do you think that's helping? Maybe you do. I don't. No one is going to watch a thriling OT WSU-ISU final and say "yep, I want both of those teams in the tourney." But somebody might watch a UNI-ISU final and say "no way am I putting ISU in, they just got blitzed by 30."
I just don't see where there is any upside.