Comments on: Morning Five: 06.03.11 Edition

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 03:21:35 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Somehow they thought they were going to get the Notre Dame BCS sweetheart deal.

But, I don’t think the MWC would have added Hawai’i, Nevada and Fresno had BYU not bailed. Still, keeping BYU and adding BSU means the BCS bid was quite possible, meaning TCU would have been better off staying as well. In the end, the MWC is by far weaker having lost BYU, TCU and Utah, even if they did as good of a job as possible patching up that hole with Fresno, Nevada, Hawai’i.

By: WakeFan

WakeFan — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:49:22 +0000

BYU got greedy. If they had stayed put, the additions of BSU, Hawaii, Nevada, and Fresno would have made the MWC worthy of a BCS bid which would have improved the revenue situation for everyone in the conference in a very significant way. Instead BYU thinks they are better off financially as an independent. This is doomed to fail, but BYU’s admin can’t see through the green.

BYU sacrificed basketball at the altar of football. In the end both will suffer.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:53:09 +0000

BYU wasn’t left at the altar…. It wasn’t even invited into the chapel.

By: greyCat

greyCat — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:23:01 +0000

Since BYU was left at the alter last summer during the conference realignment shuffle (while Utah went to the Pac-10), I imagine there are very few sleepless nights at BYU about “unwritten rules”. The basketball game next season should be interesting indeed.

By: WakeFan

WakeFan — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:20:10 +0000

I would suggest that Coach K start scheduling games at other schools before he points too many fingers. Between 2008 and 2011, Duke played 3 away OOC games that weren’t part of the Big Ten Challenge (twice at St Johns and once at Michigan). Same period Wake played 7 (Richmond x 2, East Carolina, BYU, Gonzaga, UNC-W, and Xavier). I didn’t count games played against UNC-G for either team (a joke of a program that both Wake and Duke would not play at home if its home court wasn’t the perennial site of the ACC-T).

I do like a tough schedule, but home and homes are preferable to neutral court games and tournaments. For the most part Dino Gaudio took the approach of both scheduling those home and homes and entering us into tournaments. In the end, the home and homes are much more fun, especially relative to the Preseason NIT (which tanked our SOS last year when we didn’t make it to MSG for the final 4). I hope Bzdelik takes a similar route, but previous comments of his and his scheduling at Colorado indicates he will schedule bad high majors because he thinks it makes the schedule look better. So excited about playing Seton Hall instead of Xavier next year.

I agree with your thought he was probably talking about Lowe and Hewitt.