Re: NCAA Tourney Format Changing?
Lets see... you've talked about UConn and UML in your post... good job.
I see this as the "they're taking this away from us" behavior. Yes, the road becomes harder for a weaker team. RIT has so far been the only school in Atlantic Hockey whose fans have acted like they deserve something. You want to dispute that then fine... but I believe it. I don't believe its all of you... but its certainly some of you and I've noted it before.
Bottom line is access to the Frozen Four is not something that is a right. RIT has no right to it, nobody has a right to it. It'd be "great" if all lesser schools made the Frozen Four... if we follow along with that logic we should open the whole thing to a single elimination 58 team tournament... but that's not how it works. Ideally the tournament should be designed to advance the best teams in the least amount of games.
RIT has no right to access to the national semifinals... worse it exposes flaws in the current format in advancing the better teams. The reality is hockey is only better than baseball amongst the 5 major sports (football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and soccer) in parity inherent to the sport.
I think ideally, as it was said, it should probably all be best-of-3... but we don't have the time or resources for that.
Originally posted by TigerFan86-87
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I see this as the "they're taking this away from us" behavior. Yes, the road becomes harder for a weaker team. RIT has so far been the only school in Atlantic Hockey whose fans have acted like they deserve something. You want to dispute that then fine... but I believe it. I don't believe its all of you... but its certainly some of you and I've noted it before.
Bottom line is access to the Frozen Four is not something that is a right. RIT has no right to it, nobody has a right to it. It'd be "great" if all lesser schools made the Frozen Four... if we follow along with that logic we should open the whole thing to a single elimination 58 team tournament... but that's not how it works. Ideally the tournament should be designed to advance the best teams in the least amount of games.
RIT has no right to access to the national semifinals... worse it exposes flaws in the current format in advancing the better teams. The reality is hockey is only better than baseball amongst the 5 major sports (football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and soccer) in parity inherent to the sport.
I think ideally, as it was said, it should probably all be best-of-3... but we don't have the time or resources for that.
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