Captain Kangaroo Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 No TV game for the Zippers. Our opponent will be announced tomorrow. Pairings For 11 Televised Games: Wichita State at Miami UTEP at Pacific Vermont at Nevada Southern Illinois at Can't State Western Michigan at Northern Iowa Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Hawai'i Buffalo at Fresno State Drexel at Ball State Illinois State at Wisconsin-Green Bay Murray State at Rice Arkansas-Little Rock at Bowling Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Watcher Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 My first reaction to that is that it sucks. My second is that it's fine for this team. It forces people to come out to see them and maybe makes this team a little more hungry for respect. There is also the idea of remaining below the radar for a bit longer. Still would like to get a good team here that we can dust with the Defense and get some RPI points from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 My first reaction to that is that it sucks. My second is that it's fine for this team. It forces people to come out to see them and maybe makes this team a little more hungry for respect. There is also the idea of remaining below the radar for a bit longer. Still would like to get a good team here that we can dust with the Defense and get some RPI points from. I think it will hurt the student turnout. The exposure would have been great too (Can't got a lot of mileage out of their game last year). Other than that, it isn't too big a deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Zip Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 i would love to hear the meeting for this bracket buster crap...Akron beats Buffalo and runs over Ball State and is higher in the conference than Can't State -- yet Akron is on the outside looking in? How the hell does that make sense? I agree with the article in the Beacon today in reference to the bracket buster -- it's a bunch of crap. Here is the deal -- ESPN take 25 mid level teams and 25 upper level teams and call that a bracket buster. Make someone like Duke or North Carolina travel to Akron or OU. Don't tell me financially it doesn't work ESPN can pay these schools with the advertising dollars -- these schools don't have to lose out. Think about when North Carolina played CSU or Buffalo -- they did it away from there place. As far as playing North Carolina at home we have to hope for a local product to go there so they bring a game back to his hometown to get a game. Make the bracket buster really mean something. If Miami beats Wichita State it doesn't help Miami enough and it hurst Wichita State -- what is the good of that. If you don't win 20 games in a mid level conference you are screwed. They take 15-15 Big Ten schools over you every year. all right that's enough I'll stop ranting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsbandman Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Akron beats Buffalo and runs over Ball State and is higher in the conference than Can't State -- yet Akron is on the outside looking in? How the hell does that make sense? This is starting to become a trend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDSCHOOLZIP Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Yeah it's kind of like Akron beats Marshall in football and finishes above them in the MAC and yet Marshall goes to a bowl game while the Zips sit at home. Why does our school get no respect?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted February 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Yeah it's kind of like Akron beats Marshall in football and finishes above them in the MAC and yet Marshall goes to a bowl game while the Zips sit at home. Why does our school get no respect?? We get no respect because we've sucked for 16 years! We haven't done squat in basketball since the era of rotary phones. Who do you want on TV if you're ESPN ? Miami? They beat Purdue, Xavier and the Zips! They're 1st in the MAC East. They are a recognized basketball school with NBA players like Wally and Newble. Western Michigan? They're the defending MAC champs. #1 in the MAC west. Buffalo? They are the favorites in the MAC East. They beat Penn State (yes, beating a "name team" counts to the folks at Big School-loving ESPN). They actually made it to the Gund last season. Can't? Wins vs. Creighton and Florida State this year. A one point loss to Boston College. A big win vs. Creighton in last year's Bracket Buster. A guaranteed packed house. I could go on. The simple point is: Miami (Sunday) was our "Marshall" game, if you want to draw a football parallel. We HAD to knock off Miami to get a TV Bracket Buster game, much like we had to knock off Marshall to get the TV "championship" game vs. Miami (football). We didn't come through. The Zips have had a "nice" season, thusfar. But we've beaten no marquee teams, and struggle on the road against any team with a winning percentage greater than .200. We have no MAC hoops history, unless you want to call losing at home in the first round "history." We have no players in the NBA. We have nothing to offer but a "nice" 12-6 record. That doesn't merit TV. Fastforward to 2005-6: We will be a favorite in the MAC East. We will have scheduled and beaten a name team. We will be coming off a nice MAC tournament run of 2+ victories and a 20 win season. THEN we will get our Bracket Buster TV games. As of right now we've got Niagra on Warner Cable. And that's pretty much what we deserved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fan37 Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Well stated 16 years of sub-five hundred seasons do not deserve a Brcket Buster much less one on TV--Next year should change all that in BB-- maybe 3 years for FB Fan37 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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