3rd party opinions

[ZachTheZip]

http://www.jjhuddle.com/discus/messages/398290/514271.phpWell, this is the first discussion board I could find on an non-MAC related site. The opinions are mixed. it is about a 2:3 ratio of people who beleive we should be in. A slim majority think we shouldn't have been in the NIT. I'll look for more discussions as the day goes on, but I doubt I'll find anything.

[UA Fan]

Associated Press:http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=186677

[UA Fan]

Yahoo Sports (Wetzel):http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=dw...=yhoo&type=lgns"6. Then again, if you think that's bad … Do you remember the incredible finish Saturday when Miami (Ohio) hit a buzzer-beating, bank-shot three to win the Mid-American Conference's automatic bid? The team it beat was Akron, which won the MAC's East Division title, went 26-7, had an RPI of 67 and didn't even get a bid to the NIT. Akron was just the third team to ever win 26 games and not get into the NCAAs. Not that anyone was arguing for the NCAAs. But not even the NIT? Even with a RPI better than 13 other selected teams? I know everyone says no one cares about the NIT, but I thought that was a figurative statement, not literal. Of course, the NIT was bought by the NCAA a few years back, so I guess we should have expected it to go to pot. The selection committee is stocked with the oldest boys' network you could ever dream up – C.M. Newton, Dean Smith, Gene Keady – so maybe everyone slept through the meetings. If NIT at-large bids are just going to be handed out to schools with political connections to a committee that isn't paying attention, then the entire tournament should just be disbanded. "

[UAZipster0305]

It's great that the national media is publicizing that we got snubbed!Unfortunately, that's little consolation for Dru and Rome!