VCU's goin' dancin'!

Sonner, there were a couple fans here griping about VCU's home court advantage. Mostly, I guess I just get tired of fans on other message boards bitching about VCU's home-court advantage. Big freaking deal. I'd shit with happiness if the tourney was 90 miles from me.

 

IJAG...Been to both. Love both.

BYH...fair enough. And I agree with you. The griping is petty and just plain dumb.

 

It's got to be TV. When was the last time the title game WASN'T on ESPN at 7 pm Monday?

The best chance the CAA had for changing the alignment of the tourney was probably after Mason's Final Four run...had the conference sustained a Missouri Valley-type success, maybe CBS would have jumped on the title game and maybe it would have been played on a Sunday afternoon.

And the problem with going Wednesday-Saturday and ending the tourney eight days before Selection Sunday is you're already forgotten by the time SS arrives. I really believe the scheduling of the title game (along with, well, you know, the other factors ) hurt Hofstra three years ago. If they lose the title game Friday or Saturday instead of Monday, they're fresher in the minds of the fucking idiots on the Committee.

 

But, but, but....it works better for ME if it's Thursday through Sunday.

 

Some ODU fans complain, but I think that has more to do with VCU, its biggest rival, being the beneficiary. They also realize that neither Scope nor Hampton will get the show any time soon (and whatever butthurt comes from the tourney being in Richmond would be magnified if it was actually at an on-campus arena like ODU or VCU's).

 

That's not Moddy. That mascot isn't wearing Birks.

 

Is that the only open TV spot, Monday at 7? I'm sure there's somewhere else they can put it. Gotta be, right?

 

I'm bitching.

If the ACC Tourney was in a city I could drive to in under five hours, I would be there.

Anyone else check the recent price of tickets?

 

I just checked. I wish the nighttime quarterfinal games for the Big East were that cheap.

 

Check the U.S. Open and The Masters on Stubhub.

Remember that you could never buy a Masters ticket like this before this depression.

 

No...all these conferences have set spots. A-East is always Saturday at 11:30, NEC is always Wednesday at 7, Southland is always late Sunday, Patriot is always Friday at rush hour, etc etc.

I really think the only way to get out of it is to jump to CBS, but with George Mason's Final Four run receding into memory (aww darn!), that ship has sailed.