I am sure soxxx is already among us and posting under another username. Barcs hates me so he won't come back. Who is the religious kid?
Oh yeah soxx has been back a few times and band a few times. The religious kid? The one that keeps making up bullshit about God and science and defending Catholic priests? _
You mean Truth42? He isn't banned is he? Or the other guy who started a thread a few weeks back which got closed?
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...zing-game-college-basketball?CMP=share_btn_tw Villanova's triumph was truly brilliant. College basketball needed this "The skills in college are lousy, the best players seem to treat the games as pro tryouts, and the coaches are more duplicitous than ever – hard to accomplish in a profession likened to hucking used cars. The game is in many ways broken, corrupt to the core and played in sprawling super-conferences built for football television dollars that have destroyed those great rivalries that once made college basketball so wonderful to watch. If ever a sport needed a night like Monday, it was this one: with declining ratings, blowouts in Saturday’s semi-finals and a goulash of players’ names that nobody knows. Then came with two of college basketball’s best teams, North Carolina and Villanova, fighting for the NCAA’s blood trophy as if was the only thing that mattered in their lives. They tussled. They fought. They bickered. Villanova stormed back from a second-half defecit to take a 10-point lead that seemed insurmountable until North Carolina seized it back. Marcus Paige hit an amazing lunging, sprawling three-point shot to tie the game with 4.7 seconds left, one was destined to be among the best in college basketball history until Villanova’s Kris Jenkins let go of a beautiful, arcing jumper as the red light flashed and the buzzer sounded. And in those minutes before and after Jenkins’s shot came everything that once made college basketball fun. There was calm. There was bedlam. There was elation. There was despair. There was brilliance on the court and there was brilliance in the interviews after. There was a player who had forever changed his life, standing before the world with not an arrogant sneer but the peaceful look of a man who knew he had made greatness even before hit happened. There was the coach in the pinstripe suit who resisted every human urge to scream like a loon and looked instead with compassion for his distraught counterpart."
I just read where viewership for the championship game was the lowest in 18 years. It was a shame because the actual game was a hell of a game. The tournament sucked though and cheating UNC probably took some of the momentum away from casual viewers. Being on TBS on not CBS I'm sure also contributed
it was because the morons put it on cable I already commented on it every major sport does their championship over the air and the buffoons put it on a bubblegum cable network college football does the championship on ESPN, which is stupid enough TBS gets enough exposure with the early round games, I have no idea why they felt the need to put the final four and championship on it. It should be pretty simple for them to figure out that if they're going to put it on TBS instead of CBS, ratings will suffer.
I agree with you both but I dont think it was really a decision per say. Turner Broadcasting paid big money for the championship. I just looked it up and Turner is paying the NCAA $10+ billion dollars for 14 years.. The previous deal solely with CBS was only $6 million. Its technically Turner's deal with CBS paying their share to Turner. The agreement is for the final four and champ. games to alternate, even years on TBS, odd years on CBS. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/23/business/la-fi-ct-turner-20100423
So, another big business prostitutes their product and pisses on their customers in exchange for the almighty dollar. Business as usual.
CBS was happy to renegotiate and let Turner sports in on the deal because they were finding all that it took to televise the tournament was pretty costly. Have to think that with the ratings down so much that Turner sports' almighty dollars arent so almighty haha
UNC fans in a bar reaction to Villanova Buzzer-beater. I've been there many times myself... http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/unc-now/article69975172.html
