Originally Posted by The Fly
But as has been pointed out, it isn't just the publicity (and Dayton DOES benefit from that perhaps more than most), it's the revenue generated within the local economy. Dayton wrote the book on hosting. They. Literally. Wrote. The. Book. Which the NCAA distributes to other host sites. If there were no value in hosting (beyond ego, as you suggest), no one would bid for the rights to do so.
Oh, and my guess is those hotels, bars and restaurants are a little more packed on a Tuesday and Wednesday night in Dayton than they would be otherwise. Probably on Thursdays, too, elsewhere. Maybe Forbes' reporting is shoddy? No, I don't think so.
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The vast majority of schools don't bid on it. The reason? They see no value in doing it.
What would you say if I told you that the committee has asked schools to bid on it because they wanted to take it to certain locations, and the schools told them no thanks?
