McKinney's Neighbor wrote:TrueBlueJay wrote:Why do you ladies have your panties in such a bunch over this? Illinois St, Georgia, Clemson and the A-10 Bonnies isn't that bad of a field. I'm sure the players will have no problem going to the Cayman Islands to play some hoops. Oh Lord...no TV for 2 or 3 games!
Because the whole point of these tournaments is to play resume building games on a national platform, and participating in this tournament accomplishes neither?
Apparently fans aren't allowed to be critical of anything associated with the program without being accused of having "panties in a bunch."
Some fans seem to have taken the approach that because we get to play the likes of Nova, X, G'Town, Providence, Seton Hall in conference play, it's perfectly fine if we just play lousy teams in the nonconference, play in a rinky-dink tournament that does nothing for the resume, does nothing for the fans, etc. Hey, the players might get to go to the beach while they are there and none of the fans shelling out to support the team get to watch, so who really cares, right?
To me the biggest issue is that if you look at other teams in our conference, you see them consistently getting into tournaments every year with meaningful fields. We did it this year, but other than that we've had pretty lousy tournament fields since joining the Big East. Our nonconference schedule this year should be more the norm than the exception. But I guess getting to play St. Bonaventure and Illinois State in front of 20 or 30 people while nobody can watch is pretty exciting and acceptable to some.