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Subject: Re: Neutral Site


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Date Posted: 12:48:15 03/08/05 Tue
In reply to: Ray 's message, "Re: Neutral Site" on 07:19:24 03/08/05 Tue

I fail to see what is so hard to understand here.

Post season conference tournaments are stupid at the highest NCAA level. Nearly every hard-core fan will admit that in moments of clarity. Besides the occasional Cinderella run by a regular season also-ran...they serve very little purpose.

Tournaments at the NAIA level, where budgets are already strained, are even more ludicrous.

If it were up to me - ax the whole thing! Sending teams to Arkansas and Texas is just as bad as making those same teams come to central Oklahoma. I doubt seriously anyone makes any kind of serious cash off the tourney.

If you have to have the tourney, how simple could it be to find a neutral site to host the semi's and final game? Going to State Fair Arena for the finals was a big deal when I was in college. Huge crowd, lots of attention and media coverage.

I guess Murray might have brought some scorn on himself baiting OBU fans, but his point is generally correct. It isn't about supporting it while on "our" campus. It's just dumb to play every round of a post-season tournament on one SAC schools floor. That thought is not out of envy, but out of common sense.

Too expensive.
Too limiting.
Too unbalanced.

Kill it, or play it somewhere neutral.

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