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JSF
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Posted: 12/28/2011 3:44 PM
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bornacatfan wrote:expand_more
This is funny

WInning games and being a very good team that generates press is mutually independant of rankings. People CAN notice a team that is winning games and doing well without actually spending scads of time worrying about where the team is in some arbitrary poll.

I can walk you through the Indiana HS Hall of Fame ( can actually get you a personal tour with the director.), or any historical society in any small town and show you newspaper articles and clipping of great teams extolling their virtues and stories of their play and their prowess. long before any ranking system existed.


While some of this is absolutely true we live in times when rankings do matter in getting attention. They may not be accurate in regards to teams' worth they do have an effect on the public consciousness.  ESPN for example shows highlights of every top 25 team on a nightly basis.  They do not show the #26 team's highlights particularly if it is not from one of the money conferences.  Tonight highlights from Creighton's games will be seen on ESPN. Wichita State, arguably a better team, will not be seen.  When you pull up the college basketball scores on ESPN's website it defaults to the Top 25.  So while the actual rankings aren't necessarily worth the paper they are printed on they do serve a big bonus to the teams that are in them, particularly mids.


I'll buy that argument. As G sasys though... keep on winning and it all takes care of itself. The buzz surrounding winning seems to me to be more of a tangible than a ranking number subjectively derived. Hows the saying go..."everybody loves a winner"....or is it "just keep winning and the rest will take care of itself"....or..... ya know there arent a whole lot of sayings about mediocre or losing.......winning seems to breed it s own press.


The biggest advantage of cracking the top 25 is when a very casual fan asks you how the team is doing, you just say, "we're ranked" and suddenly they're impressed.
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Posted: 12/28/2011 4:12 PM
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Mr Swank.

THe Indiana Hall of Fame is off I 70 at the New Castle Exit. GO northto the Shell stationonthe right. Trojan Lane. Turn right and look for the Hall onthe left. Ask for Chris May and tell him I sent you. You might be interested if he will show you the Galleys for the monthly magazine he prepared when COach Wooden died.  He walked me through the process of calling Bill Walton, Michael Warren and all the guys he had write stories for that edition.

You dont really have to go to get the point though. Any local historical society or library will have old papers that will illustrate the point that before polls existed winning generated a lot of publicity in the media. OTOH if you visit most barber shops in Indiana there will always be guys in there arguing about the local teams.


Thank you sir.  On my next trip to Indy I'll stop.  I've seen the signs on 70 but wasn't sure how far it was off of the interstate plus I've always been on a schedule.  I'll make this part of the schedule next time.

Agreed on the clippings.  Back when my uncle played high school ball in KY, there were all kinds of clippings in the local papers.  We used to have more than here in Athens when Tom Metters was the sports editor at the Messenger.  Many many kids in SE Ohio owe the coverage that they received to this very giving man.  I'm sure there were/are others like him in Indiana.
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Posted: 12/28/2011 6:53 PM
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Thanks for the welcoming OUVan. Now I suppose it's time for me to contribute, hope this isn't a redundant post:

http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/2011/12/27/college-hoop.../

Yet another Bobcat mention. "There is an argument to be made that the Bobcats are the best mid-major team in the country." 


How about the quote about DJ possibly being the most exciting point guard to watch? Now that is a bold statement.
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