This is a master class in curmudgeony.
The reasons most of you give for playing is that you just want to watch more games.
And you continue to ignore every argument that isn't this. Furthermore, as we're about to see, your argument is basically, "I don't think they should!"
There is a generational difference of opinion and certainly the younger folks are used to 300 channels and the world at your fingertips on your smart phone, so what's a few more games?
I own neither a TV nor a smart phone. Most people my age don't spend for huge cable lineups.
Instant entertainment 24/7 and I want my bobcats to keep playing.
So you're saying is previous generations hated it when the season kept going?
This sort of thinking is what will ultimately lead to the downfall of the present model of intercollegiate athletics.
Whoops, we just took a left turn. Where are we?
As we speak there is a lawsuit against the NCAA and football players joining unions. Soon the players will be paid.
What this has to do with the CIT: Nothing.
We've already played 34 games. If we go all the way in this farce we will have played 39 games. Don't these kids go to school?
This is pure, undiluted, Grade A, 100% bull honky. At no point during the season have you made this complain. At no time during the Sweet 16 run did you make this complaint. When I was a student, I was, at various times and often several of these at once, the co-captain/officer/partial coach of the club tennis team, an O Zone officer, a writer and editor at The Post and Speakeasy Magazine, did freelance writing, had a job, volunteered, was involved with Reach Out on Campus, was the president of Sigma Theta Epsilon, and was a member of Athens Wargamers. Aside from that, I occasionally participated in intramural sports and had a satisfying social life. I was still able to earn grades good enough for the Dean's List and I had none of the advantages and amenities varsity athletes are afforded. So don't come here with that "but don't they do to class?" weak stuff.
Combine that with huge TV contracts and coaches salaries and we don't really have amateur athletics any longer.
Great point when arguing against a tournament not on TV until the end.
Borna says we have to keep the players in a routine and engaged. Isn't there enough stimulation on a college campus to keep the kids attention?
One should realize that was exactly his point.
What about studying and learning to grow up?
I'm saddened you have so little respect for these men you think they can't do these things while playing.
I've said we will learn nothing about our team will don't already know by playing these games. How many of you just keep making sales calls or scheduling meetings without a clear agenda? In my opinion playing these games is the equivalent of that.
Who said the goal was to learn things, again? You're telling me the extra experience for Campbell, Setty, and Willis will not be beneficial?