Originally Posted by TXFlyerFan
It certainly is troublesome and will limit OOC opportunities. Lunardi showed a chart last night that mid-tier P5 conference teams in the NCAA tournament win at a very low percentage with higher seeds, and high-tier mid major teams win at a significantly higher % despite much lower seeding. The NCAA could fix this if they wanted too, forcing teams to have to have say having a sliding scale between OOC and conference games. Play higher SOS for OOC + higher win%, accept lower win% in conference. Play low OOC SOS or lower win% OOC, require higher win% in conference. Don't accept top 25/50/100 wins against conference opponents where conference teams are ranked high early season because of low OOC SOS. Force P5 schools to schedule OOC conference games against top tier mid majors H/A, not just H.
They won't do it of course, but the NCAA tournament is the goose that laid the golden egg. Everyone watches for the upset plus their team. Take away more upset possibilities, lower viewership means lower ratings means less ad $$$.
|
Saw that chart and another that showed the number of teams in the tourney from 2 different periods. Can't remember the specific time frames, but essentially not too long ago the percentage of mid-major and non-P5 schools in the NCAA were higher overall then the second period of time. Something like 12% of teams selected were from non-P5 schools in this more recent period!
So I think the sqweez is already here for the non-P5 schools/conferences. The money is going toward those that want it all. I also noted that Mr. L had the Big E grouped in with the P5 conferences.
I saw an article that some of the P5 schools over the last few years have built athletic only facilities that offer dinning service tailored to diet and convenience, staffed with dieticians and head chiefs, food anytime all the time coupled with workout areas.
These building cost almost as much as the cost to upgrade the Arena aand multi-millions of dollars to their budget for food and staff. They compared the Alabama level (Multi-$M) to the Akron level of 100K total for all food and staff specialized toward the athletes. SO you see these P5 programs have a monster appetite to feed and the money needs to come from somewhere and some of that somewhere is the non-P5 schools.
It will only get worse! Trust me on that !