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Bobcatbob
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Posted: 3/31/2016 3:02 PM
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This NY Times article contains some amusing and some insightful observations from the first-ever Nevada 16. Some things in her all Bobcats can relate to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/sports/ncaabasketball/a...
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Posted: 3/31/2016 3:19 PM
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Don't think fans will travel for this.

Bowls have the advantage of being around the holidays.
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Posted: 3/31/2016 3:44 PM
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I still like the concept of waiting 2-3 weeks to play the first game, and playing it in Las Vegas, a fun place to vacation by most accounts. Not being over the holidays has the advantage of cheaper fares and no place is easier to get to, often with discount airlines and airfares available.

It just seems like it aught to work. It obviously didn't this year though.
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Posted: 4/1/2016 10:05 AM
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They need to hold it during spring break.

They also need to have it at an arena that isn't 50 feet away from the slots. Wonder how many people might've chosen gambling over b-ball. One year when we visited friends in Vegas we went to see the musical "Chicago" at Mandalay. Even though it had Hal Linden I really didn't care for it, so at halftime I walked down the ramp and played slots for an hour or so. Got back just in time for the final curtain.
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Posted: 4/1/2016 4:59 PM
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Who really wants to see this drek? It's not surprising at all.
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Posted: 4/1/2016 11:24 PM
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Pataskala wrote:expand_more
They need to hold it during spring break.

They also need to have it at an arena that isn't 50 feet away from the slots. Wonder how many people might've chosen gambling over b-ball. One year when we visited friends in Vegas we went to see the musical "Chicago" at Mandalay. Even though it had Hal Linden I really didn't care for it, so at halftime I walked down the ramp and played slots for an hour or so. Got back just in time for the final curtain.
Hold it during "who's" spring break? Not all breaks are equal.
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Posted: 4/3/2016 11:27 AM
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BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
They need to hold it during spring break.

They also need to have it at an arena that isn't 50 feet away from the slots. Wonder how many people might've chosen gambling over b-ball. One year when we visited friends in Vegas we went to see the musical "Chicago" at Mandalay. Even though it had Hal Linden I really didn't care for it, so at halftime I walked down the ramp and played slots for an hour or so. Got back just in time for the final curtain.
Hold it during "who's" spring break? Not all breaks are equal.
Since the primary purpose of this tourney is to make (or not lose much) money, one consideration should be to pick teams whose schools will be on spring break that week.
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Posted: 4/3/2016 12:57 PM
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Yep...empty arenas, kinda like the stadiums when MAC teams go to bowl games...
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Posted: 4/3/2016 1:14 PM
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brucecuth wrote:expand_more
Yep...empty arenas, kinda like the stadiums when MAC teams go to bowl games...
These are business ventures plain and simple. To make money you need a product to sell and as long as there are advertisement dollars/tourism dollars/participant dollars to fund them, they'll keep popping up. I was reading an article in today's NY Times about Fightball, a one on one basketball sport that reminds me a bit of MMa with the winner getting $100,000 - basically no holds barred basketball. Who would have thunk people would pay to see it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/nyregion/in-fightball-b...
Last Edited: 4/3/2016 1:23:37 PM by Alan Swank
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