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Thursday, February 23, 2006
From the desk of Ralph
In his latest post over at CoachRalph.com, Holy Cross coach Ralph Willard recaps the Navy and American games ("American's students do a great job of supporting their team and have a special affection for Holy Cross."), answers some frequently asked questions about recruiting, playing time and argues persuasively against the whole idea of a postseason league tournament at the Patriot League level:
Conference tournaments were started by the big conferences to initially generate income and later as a way to get more teams from their conference into the NCAA Tourney. In our league they don't generate income, and as a one bid conference all they serve to do is possibly eliminate a team that has proven to be the best over the course of the regular season from representing our league in the NCAA Tournament. And they occur over spring break, when students are out. They also lower the RPI of the regular season champion if they do win.
Given the current set-up, which generates no tournament atmosphere or buzz, Ralph might be right, though our preference would be a return to a single site tournament, not an end to the tournament.
Published at 7:39 AM by Hoop Time.
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