[OutsiderFan]

Gee, thanks BC. Aged like milk? It's a tough night in this household. I blame Saban. . . . 

For what it's worth, I buy only Ultra Pasteurized milk these days. A buck more a half gallon, and lasts in the fridge for a couple of months.

Sorry my friend.  I just think it is really funny when certain posters loudly proclaim that such and such is going to happen, as proof of whatever their deeply held belief about sports, only to be proven wrong a mere three days later.  Maybe a little humility vis a vis the unpredictability of sports might be warranted.  After all, that unpredictability is a feature, not a bug (well, unless you are a fan of that #1 seed).

BC

NOW you know why I said the greatest driver of sports interest is uncertainty of outcome. And it's also why sports gambling is so lucrative. I don't bet on sports because I KNOW I can't accurately predict outcomes enough to avoid losing money in the end. I'm 9-2 picking the winner of the last 11 Warriors games, but if I did bet on these games I would have become overconfident and likely, made bigger bets thinking I could win more, and end up losing in the end.

As for the SEC, I still feel it should operate as its own thing separate from the NCAA. And I agree with whoever said there should be divisions of competition based on how much is spend on your sports program and maybe more specifically on coaches. Right now the only difference between FCS and FBS football is scholarship limits. FBS gets 85, FCS 63. It seems to me we need another bifurcation of FBS, and the SEC could easily poach say Michigan and Ohio State, Notre Dame, USC to join and who needs Wisconsin and Iowa? Maybe this is where it is all headed anyway, one conference of like 30-40 schools with virtual professional sports. I just see the SEC as leading the charge into hyper sports focus across all its members in a way other conferences simply don't, and in the end, I prefer people and organizations be aligned with those who share their values. 

Georgia's football ascension was predictable. It was a product of drastically increasing the budget for recruiting. I remember reading how they hired dozens of recruiting lead generators and doubled their staff, in addition to other investments in coaching staff and more. Schools that don't spend on par with Georgia shouldn't be competing at the same level in my opinion. You can say football is unique, but the money from football is going to filter into other sports to create greater competition disparities in them too. 

I don't think the SEC's dreadful MBB Sweet 16 performance undoes my point about the SEC operating at a different level. it's more about trends and where things are headed than the results of two competition days.

[OutsiderFan]

Gee, thanks BC. Aged like milk? It's a tough night in this household. I blame Saban. . . . 

For what it's worth, I buy only Ultra Pasteurized milk these days. A buck more a half gallon, and lasts in the fridge for a couple of months.

Sorry my friend.  I just think it is really funny when certain posters loudly proclaim that such and such is going to happen, as proof of whatever their deeply held belief about sports, only to be proven wrong a mere three days later.  Maybe a little humility vis a vis the unpredictability of sports might be warranted.  After all, that unpredictability is a feature, not a bug (well, unless you are a fan of that #1 seed).

BC

NOW you know why I said the greatest driver of sports interest is uncertainty of outcome. And it's also why sports gambling is so lucrative. I don't bet on sports because I KNOW I can't accurately predict outcomes enough to avoid losing money in the end. I'm 9-2 picking the winner of the last 11 Warriors games, but if I did bet on these games I would have become overconfident and likely, made bigger bets thinking I could win more, and end up losing in the end.

As for the SEC, I still feel it should operate as its own thing separate from the NCAA. And I agree with whoever said there should be divisions of competition based on how much is spend on your sports program and maybe more specifically on coaches. Right now the only difference between FCS and FBS football is scholarship limits. FBS gets 85, FCS 63. It seems to me we need another bifurcation of FBS, and the SEC could easily poach say Michigan and Ohio State, Notre Dame, USC to join and who needs Wisconsin and Iowa? Maybe this is where it is all headed anyway, one conference of like 30-40 schools with virtual professional sports. I just see the SEC as leading the charge into hyper sports focus across all its members in a way other conferences simply don't, and in the end, I prefer people and organizations be aligned with those who share their values. 

Georgia's football ascension was predictable. It was a product of drastically increasing the budget for recruiting. I remember reading how they hired dozens of recruiting lead generators and doubled their staff, in addition to other investments in coaching staff and more. Schools that don't spend on par with Georgia shouldn't be competing at the same level in my opinion. You can say football is unique, but the money from football is going to filter into other sports to create greater competition disparities in them too. 

I don't think the SEC's dreadful MBB Sweet 16 performance undoes my point about the SEC operating at a different level. it's more about trends and where things are headed than the results of two competition days.