Comments on: Basketball: Woods motif aids Ducks in CBI final

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:22:04 +0000

By the way, anyone see the 60 Minutes show on March Madness and Money? I’m ready to go work with Sonny Vicario as I’ve long felt these players, entertainers, deserve something more than a $20k/yr scholarship. I have envisioned building a system where the highest rated players earn a higher salary, while the lowest rated who just make squads make nothing, and everyone else in between be on a scale based upon some sort of ranking system, dependent upon how they performed in high school, and then each year afterwards.

This would allow kids, who want to postpone the NBA in order to get their degree, a more reasonable option to do so – it would no longer be an ALL or NOTHING proposition from a financial standopint.

And I think the payments to players would come from the NCAA out of the TV revenue contract ($700M per year?), and players would get to choose whatever campus they wanted and still be eligible for the payments. I think it would encourage even more parity in the sport, as 2nd level players would likely prefer to be a star on a 2nd tier team in order to increase their ranking (and thus pay) for the next season. This increased parity would also increase viewer demand across the country, increasing overall revenue.

But that former UW guy, now head of the NCAA, comes off as a complete snob and jerk, defending the indefensible, so I can’t get too excited about my idea.

By: Uh Huh!

Uh Huh! — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:16:20 +0000

Oh, man.
That’s sad to hear. I was trying to find the game on TV somewhere to watch, but was unable. And now reading this makes me feel a bit sick.
I agree with you, JF. Somebody needs to step up and fix this embarrassing situation.

I went to find some commentary on the game from the Creighton point of view and found this:

http://whiteandbluereview.com/?p=11532

It even includes a link to video highlights of the game, including the halfcourt violation play. I looked 4 times and couldn’t see it. (The claim of a travel on Singler, I also could not see.)

I would propose that the Pac 10 not be the office that comes down on Oregon for getting it’s court to meet regulation court requiremens, but the NCAA office do so.

By: Yoda

Yoda — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:08:12 +0000

That court is typical Oregon – tasteless but flashy.

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:43:56 +0000

The court is interesting to see, truly artistic, but from a functional perspective it’s atrocious and an embarrassment to the rest of the conference that we tolerate such foolishness. Boise St. has an excellent football team, but their blue field just serves to underscore they’re a podunk town in a two-bit league. That’s the type of stuff you expect in minor league baseball. But when it comes to the Pac-10 (12) it just comes across as juvenile. Grow up, Oregon.

By: cal teddy

cal teddy — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:00:31 +0000

As usual, Oregon keeps it classy.

By: joey

joey — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:33:13 +0000

It is lame to not have a visable midcourt line but it is even more lame for a ref to call it when he probably couldn’t see it either.