Purdue7 Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 hour ago, IU Scott said: How about St. Peters this year Beating Purdue doesn’t really count? but seriously some of my favorite ncaa memories are Butler Indiana State Loyola Marymount George Mason Davidson Northern Iowa (Faruq Manush) vs KU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go_iu_bb Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Steubenhoosier said: Let’s have a football playoff with Arizona, Duke, Kansas, and IU. Do you think that the powers that be would buy into that? The "At Least Our Basketball Teams Are Good Playoff?" The Futility Bowl is the championship game? Edited July 10, 2022 by go_iu_bb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 10 hours ago, Purdue7 said: Beating Purdue doesn’t really count? but seriously some of my favorite ncaa memories are Butler Indiana State Loyola Marymount George Mason Davidson Northern Iowa (Faruq Manush) vs KU Absolutely. Without the Cinderella element, the NCAA Tournament, and therefore college basketball, is not nearly as relevant. I'm sure there are people in power that understand that. The question is whether they end up having any influence or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 hour ago, 5fouls said: Absolutely. Without the Cinderella element, the NCAA Tournament, and therefore college basketball, is not nearly as relevant. I'm sure there are people in power that understand that. The question is whether they end up having any influence or not. Look on the bright side @5fouls, the NIT might become relevant again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach1K Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 13 hours ago, Purdue7 said: Beating Purdue doesn’t really count? but seriously some of my favorite ncaa memories are Butler Indiana State Loyola Marymount George Mason Davidson Northern Iowa (Faruq Manush) vs KU Man that Butler and Duke 2010 final had the makings of what could have been the perfect upset in tournament history that year. Every time I watch a repeat of that game I keep thinking Hayward's shot was going to go in if only it had. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobSaccamanno Posted July 10, 2022 Report Share Posted July 10, 2022 I doubt they squeeze out the smaller schools from March Madness. IMO they structure football with big schools and give invitations to smaller schools to the Big Dance. The highest rated college basketball game ever, to this day, is still ISU vs MSU. The biggest audience ever involves an Indiana school, and that school is not in Bloomington. That says it all. I think they will try to have their cake (football) and eat it too (March Madness). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgambill Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 9 hours ago, Coach1K said: Man that Butler and Duke 2010 final had the makings of what could have been the perfect upset in tournament history that year. Every time I watch a repeat of that game I keep thinking Hayward's shot was going to go in if only it had. It would have been a movie….Hoosiers II….the college edition! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 The NCAA better be trying to find a way to restructure itself so it can protect the "integrity" of March Madness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceDouglas Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 On 7/9/2022 at 8:25 PM, 5fouls said: Here is the link to the article you want to paste. https://finance.zacks.com/much-money-college-sports-generate-10346.html That said, here is a direct quote from that article. It's semantics. But, the bottom line is that the NCAA tournament is the largest source of NCAA revenue. It helps fund minor sports at colleges that don't have a football program. Yeah, the "NCAA" there is the administrative org (governing body) run by Mark Emmert, not the member schools themselves. You cut it off before the comparison was made: Football Is Still King Men's basketball is the largest source of the NCAA's total revenue because the NCAA tournament brings in lots of money. But even before teams reach the tournament level, they generate revenue for their schools with individual basketball games. And at these school levels, basketball takes second chair to football for total revenue generated. In fact, football garners more revenue than the next 35 other sports combined at Division I schools. On average, football brings in $31.9 million in revenue, while men's basketball (the second-highest grossing sport) comes in a distant second at $8.1 million. For reference, women's basketball brings in $1.8 million, while rowing brings in just $932,646. It's true that for non football schools it is much more important as they have much smaller budgets - no football facilities to maintain, no 85 scholarships to fund, etc. But football pays the bills at P5 programs. Also out of that $1 billion/year only a fraction actually gets back to the schools, something like $170 mil last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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