Why Conference Tournaments Undercut College Basketball

Shower Thought - March 11, 2025

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"Clark Griswald was expecting a big Christmas bonus check so he could put in a pool for his family. He had worked hard at the ad agency had a lot of success, put in a solid year's work and it was time for his big payoff, jelly of the month club, no pool.

That's what yesterday was in college basketball. Lipscomb, good job you won the ASUN conference. Here's your present. Jelly of the month. Towson! way to go, you won the Coastal Athletic Conference. You toiled for 3 months. Traveling all over the country you beat everybody. You convinced fans to come out to your games. Good job. Here's some jelly. No you don't get a bid to the NCAA tournament like you were hoping. No we give that to the team who wins 3 games over one weekend. You won 16 conference games over three months. But we're gonna give it to the fluke team who puts it together for 72 hours. Towson LOST to Delaware last night. And their season is over. They got nothing no jams no jellys no tournaments. The regular season is meaningless."

Shower Thought - March 10, 2025

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"Alright it's conference tournament week, which means it's time to check on all of our exes to see if we're better than they are. Just like you do on Instagram, how much money are your exes making, how fat are they, do they have a better used mini van than you, are they starting an MLM, does their husband build model airplanes. Let's peek in and see.

BYU's ex- Mark Pope got a six seed in the SEC tournament. 21-10 on the year

BYU's new beau Kevin Young 4 seed. 23-8. And one seed higher than they were last year with Pope. BYU is better than their ex. Joe Lunardi might disagree.

Utah State meanwhile a 3 seed. USU is satisfied with life.

What about two exes ago for the Aggies? Ryan Odom VCU. #1 seed in the Atlantic 10, uh oh...We'll have to come back after the NCAA tourney but he's looking good. Good shape, good hairline.

Craig Smith...well.

Let's look at SUU's ex...Todd Simon 8 seed in the mac...SUU 8 seed in the WAC...mmmhmmm.

Let the madness begin!"

Shower Thought - March 6, 2025

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I"'m on an old west binge. Shows about the old frontier. Headed west in wagons...1883, 1923, American Primeval, Bass Reaves, Outer Range let it roll! They're all headed out west to get gold, or oil or land or freedom... and it's anybody's game in the wild west you got irish, italians, mormons, southerners, leo dicaprio and a grizzly bear, and any of em can find gold or strike oil in Texas or Deseret or California. It's wide open!

This is how I feel when I see power rankings for BIG 12 football 2025. Athlon sports says Arizona State is gonna win the big 12. Okay I believe it. USA today says no it's Kansas State who's gonna strike it rich next year and win the big 12! I'm in. ESPN has BYU striking oil finishing on top. So come one come all. Head west young man. Gimme your tired your UCF's, your Cincinnati's, your huddled masses the big 12 is where dreams come true! 2025 is gonna be another land rush season."

Shower Thought - March 5, 2025

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"If you're mormon, and you live out of Utah whenever you meet a new person and they find out you're mormon, the first thing they say to break the ice is...how many wives do you have? That's been hilarious since 1850s! And you say well, that's good actually most mormons you only have one wife these days...lol it's a branding problem. And it's a misconception that people still have about mormons.

Here's another one...BYU is winning basketball games because of NIL. BYU spent 4 million on a Russian they spent who knows how much on that other freshman. Of course they're winning! They took a short cut. I'm sorry that's a misconception. Last night BYU went into Ames, where Iowa State was 33-1 over the last two years, and beat the Cyclones with a kid from Fremont High school. While the 4 million dollar russian was on the bench and the other big money freshman was out. BYU isn't winning because of their big NIL money. They're winning with their regular guys, who probably have polygamists somewhere in their family history.

Shower Thought - March 4, 2025

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"There's a great scene in The Simpsons where Principal Skinner is trying to track down Bart who is skipping class. And Skinner is going around town trying to find him and he says if I were a truant boy I'd be right here in to the Springfield natural history museum. And Bart's not there. Then he goes to a couple other places he thinks a kid would be hanging out at and can't find Bart and he says Am I so out of touch? No no it's the children who are wrong. It's now become a meme all over the internet.

LeBron James is Seymour Skinner. LeBron recently said why would he want to be the face of a league that the NBA media is always ripping on? In the NBA, the coaches can't be mean to the players or the players get the coaches fired. If the fans yell something mean during a game the player grabs a security guard and gets the fan thrown out. And now apparently the media is being too mean. Charles Barkley is being rude. The problem isn't the precious NBA which is losing 50% of its TV viewers, they shoot 90 threes a game, and the stars take off a couple games a week no that's not...is LeBron so out of touch, no no, it's the media who is wrong!"

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