Rant Meme Public Response #2: College Baskeball

[dlgood]

Another entry based upon the Rant Meme - feel free to put additional topics up for me to follow on, or ignore, BTW.

For the benefit of stars91: College Basketball - the Good the Bad and the Ugly

The Good

- Selection Sunday, and the Opening Weekend of the NCAA Tourney
- The Women's Final Four
- Championship Week
- The Students Section
- Conference Rivalry Games on Tobacco Road
------Insert: A full double round-robin conference schedule.
- Intimate, on Campus Arenas
- The Princeton-style Offense
- Traveling and Three Seconds calls
- The Syracuse Zone
- Coaches that stay in the same place for decades
- Buzzer beaters
- Mascots
------ Mid-major upset specials, except when they happen to my team
------ Alums returning to coach the Alma-Mater
------ Son of the coach serving as assistant, or eventual replacement (John Thompson III)

The Bad

- The impossibility of tracking every team
- Too many teams to track
- Crappy free throw shooting
- Dick Bennett, low-scoring basketball games that finish in the forties
- Dick Vitale look-a-likes, sound-a-likes
- Jim Nantz doesn't tell Billy Packer to cram it
- Bill Raftery, trying too hard
- Alumni who sit quietly on their hands instead of cheering.
- Off-Campus arenas
------ The Big East, ever since they tried the "6 Fouls" experiment
------ Mega conferences with divisions, and unbalanced regular season schedules
------ Son of the coach serving as assistant, or eventual replacement (Joey Meyer)

The Ugly

- The NCAA Rules Manual
- Jim Harrick Jr.'s "Principals of Basketball" class
- Dave Bliss at Baylor
- Big Doofy White Guys who can't move
- Lou Carnesecca's sweaters
- Bob Knight's Temper
- Gary Williams' schvitzing like a pig on the sideline
- John Chaney and Jerry Tarkanian
------ Son of the coach serving as assistant, or eventual replacement (Jim Harrick Jr.)
- Fans that throw stuff at the court
- Gene Keady's hair

Comments

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I see what you're suggesting, but I mean it quite differently.

FSU was never Charlie Ward, Peter Warrick, or Deion Sanders. FSU is Bobby Bowden. Players are only going to be there for a few years, and you can kick a Laveranues Coles off your team knowing full well you have other players lying around.

It's even more the case with Pro Basketball, because players have guaranteed contracts - something they don't have in the NFL. How often does an NBA coach stay in the same place for ten years. As opposed to a college basketball coach.

And in college football, Jack Pardee could get a ten win season with disposable quarterbacks throwing sixty times a game at Houston, yet that offense did nothing in the NFL. Paul Johnson can win ten games at Navy with no discernable talent because he's ressurected a fifty year-old offensive system.