Tuesday, April 04, 2006

And the Gators are the new Champions!

  • Unlike John Brady, Billy the Kid managed to outfox Ben Howland, partly because he had superior talent and more versatility with Brewer, Noah and Horford. Mark Few was the other coach who outfoxed Howland but Gonzaga (unlike Florida) had a meltdown of epic proportions.
  • Some talk during the weekend had been on revenue from new media sources. Myles Brand alluded to that during the annual "Outside the games" hosted by Seth Davis on CBS. What is this new media? Well, there is the internet, satellite radio (XM, Sirius, etc), new college-sports TV stations (CSTV, ESPNU, Fox College Sports), along with regionally aligned channels along with OnDemand and PayPerView. Theoretically, every single Division 1 game or event could be made available on some form of TV and radio accessible anywhere in the country or the world even.
  • Has CSTV surpasses ESPN's coverage of the NCAA Final Four? Granted CSTV is now part of CBS so they have inherent advantages in their coverage, but apart from that, CSTV's approach is fresh and refreshing. ESPN's coverage has been rather stale and predictable with the same cast of characters and their unwillingness to make any comments that would potentially upset anyone. Doug Gotlieb (a Stephen-A-Smith-wannabe)is the only one speaking his mind without being too PC/sensitive. For example, calling out Howland out-foxing John Brady on the sidelines.
  • Into the Hall of Fame: The Chuckster, Domique, Sleazo, the Italian godfather of basketball coaches, and the Big East godfather.
  • Memo to CBS: Please do something with the presentation of the Chevy Player and Coach of the year award. It is very stale, staged and lifeless presentation in its current form. Please fix it!
  • The Numbers: There's always something funky with the numbers. In this year's Final Four, all four coaches coming into the games had a 66.7% winning record in the NCAA tourney. You couldn't even stage that if you tried. That's incredible. That percentage essentially means they won 2 out of every 3 games they played.
  • Do you want to relive the Madness??? CSTV will be showing the best 12 games of this year's tourney on Sunday April 9, starting at 5pm Pacific time. 24 hours of action! Set your VCRs/TiVos/Hi8s! As always, check local listings...

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