The Big Ten hoops bias, as obvious as ever....

[Rick Cleveland]

https://mississippitoday.org/2021/0...our-lets-look-at-obvious-ncaa-selection-bias/

 

[047Dog]

Happens every season. The committee would be fine with filling the tourney with Big Ten and ACC teams.

 

[Xenomorph]

I'm not clicking til you give us your walk up music.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

I'm not clicking til you give us your walk up music.

Though I already clicked and read the article, I second this motion.

 

[Rick Cleveland]

Glory Days .. The Boss

 

[Xenomorph]

Nice pick! Looking at the selection committee it's easy to see where the midwest bias comes from.

Mitch Barnhart - went to school in Canada and then Ohio
Mike Bobinski - Purdue AD
Lawrence Cunningham - Notre Dame grad, first job was Ball State AD
Michael O'Brien - Toledo assit AD
Jamie Pollard - Iowa St. AD
Chris Reynolds - Bradley AD
Craig Thompson - Minnesota grad, worked at Kansas St. for years.

Of the 9 members.. only 3 don't owe their careers to the midwest:

Bernadette McGlade.. N. Carolina grad, worked at Ga. Tech before AAC comish
Charles McClelland.. SWAC comish
Tom Burnett.. Southland Conf comish

I can see that group as a whole sharing some disdain for the "football schools".

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Glory Days .. The Boss

Awe, c'mon Rick. Springsteen calls a fastball a "speedball."

 

[SaintsDoc]

Couldn’t agree more. Thanks

 

[Rick Cleveland]

Speedball is an old baseball term for a fast ball dating back in to the early 1900s... kind of fits with Glory Days. Every time I hear the song I think of my late friend Bobby Myrick, the Mississippi State and MLB left-hander who could damn sure throw that speedball by you... I caught him in youth baseball in Hattiesburg and he mutilated by left hand. Never enough padding in those old mitts...

 

[tatedog]

"speedball."

I never could hit a crackball.