How To Save College BB Early Season

[Pirate64]

From this morning's USA today section in the APP. I like this very much - could generate excitement- no downside. Take a look.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ve-college-basketballs-early-season/77948318/

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[TheBluePirate]

It's very likeable ......

EXCEPT

• It would make schedule planning a nightmare for teams which have negotiated pre-season tournaments years in advance and other such home-and-home or two-for-one arrangements made years in advance.
• It embeds a "rich get richer" concept even deeper (which I am against - so many things are destroying long-term parity across CBB - why add one more to the mix?)

 

[lloyde dobler]

They thought up the same thing 30 years ago -- the pre-season NIT.

 

[Pirate6711]

They thought up the same thing 30 years ago -- the pre-season NIT.

Yeah, and the college basketball world has evolved from the Preseason NIT to the multiple tournaments that we have now. That has worked out well for most programs as they get to play opponents and in venues they normally wouldn't.

This proposal would be a mess. Nobody wants to condense the 30 regular season games to about 2.5 months, so giving up games in November would mean pushing the season beyond the first weekend in April. With the stranglehold that college basketball has on March with conference tournaments and March Madness, it would be insane to give up March just so you don't have to play in November.

The current setup is fine. This is, what, the fourth or fifth year in a row that almost every SHU game is available on TV. The GW game was online only in 99% of the country, but everybody with a computer or streaming device could access it. There are a lot of good early match-ups and easy access to these match-ups. Yeah, it's a crowded sports field in November and December, but it's a reality you have to deal with. There's no guarantee that the proposed tournament in that article will rate better than some intriguing early season tournaments and popular conference agreements, like the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.