Ok, so like what the HELL gives with yet ANOTHER post-season college basketball tournament? We have the NCAA, the prize fight of college basketball, the NIT, the consolation prize of college basketball, but now we have the CBI, (College Basketball Invitational)????
This CBI tournament is beginning to encroach on the realm of the absurd, along the lines of the college football proliferation of meaningless post-season bowl games.
Some of the (quote), "TEAMS", (unquote), in this farce of a post-season play, have literally LOSING records. Like the Big East's very own Cincinnati Bearcats. Who have a season record of 13-18. Yes, 13-18! That is so far below .500 that they could not find their way back to playing .500 ball if they had a flashlight and GPS. There are some very "mediocre" teams in this thing, like Houston, Rider and Nevada. But along with bad teams like Cincy there are also teams like Old Dominion, Richmond and Virginia. Those are some really BAD teams. (And BTW, Richmond, Rider and Nevada have already lost and are out of this farce. Mercifully for them...AND us.)
This so-called "tournament" is anything but. It is nothing more than a money grab by Fox sports, (BTW, it is rumored to be being shown on a FOX Sports TV network, but I have not seen even which one it is, or even where that cable channel is offered.)
There is NO reason to hold this tournament, and certainly, NONE of these teams will ever be big fan attractions. So why even play it?
This is a bad idea...taken to the worst possible conclusion. The only ideas I have heard worse than this is "Battery night" at Shea Stadium or "50 cent beer night" at the old Jacobs Fields or XFL football. A few other REALLY bad sports ideas.
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