The opposite happens since ESPN sells its soul for exclusive media rights to the SEC. Outside the top 3 in the conference, you have a very mediocre conference yet all you will hear from the ESPN talking heads is the SEC is the greatest conference top to bottom in the history of college football.
Oh, you mean that week in the SEC, somewhere in November, where they all play the Alabama St Tech schools?
The tournament doesn't really decide squat, other than the hottest team just won it, or like last year, the best team won. The tournament never tells who the best conference is, that's regular season.
I can agree with that, but if all the Big XII teams play others that shoot lights out during the tournament, and none make the FF, does the conference suck then? I'd say no. But, that's how some will perceive it.
JBR Bracketology is pretty good but he went off on this again yesterday, he responds to most counterpoints but when I brought up ISU had no choice in playing DePaul and what our NCSOS would be if they had paired us with Marquette or Creighton it was crickets. DePaul is historically bad, is it crazy to say our NCSOS would go from #330 or whatever it is to #230 if they had paired us with somebody good? I have no idea if it's possible to jump that much but it would be a huge difference. I'll say it again, next year is 3 games in a brutal Maui, at Iowa, and surely a tougher Big East team, that is MORE than enough with what the Big 12 will look like next year adding Arizona etc.
We add AZ but also add 3 more. Will AZ be good enough to hold up the other 3 coming, seeing that we will have even less teams that we play twice. We played Houston twice, how would it look if we dropped them once and put the pokes in a second time?
