Bob_Ballew
03-19-2004, 10:18 AM
I personally keep my hand on the metal door frame when I get out to avoid the static shock. Works best for me. http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/smile.gif
Again, Mechelle has enlightened us concerning the pre-determined sites. Maybe each of us can encourage our coaches to lobby for a change. Below are a few comments from the article. Thanks Mechelle.
Mechelle Voepel-
Message to coaches: If you are at the top level -- or aspire to be -- in this sport, your career is judged on the NCAA Tournament. Some of you know a lot more about your sport than anybody else does. Can't enough of you who are influential, financially secure and have proven yourselves to be concerned about more than just your own program please band together and force people to listen to you?
In the past two years, we've heard everyone from Pat Summitt to Jody Conradt to Geno Auriemma to Marsha Sharp talk about the problems with pre-determined sites and their overall worries about the tournament. Last season, the committee sent a few "hush-up'' messages to some coaches. And the committee will be quick to say the "majority'' of coaches voted in favor of pre-determination. I would say that's the "majority'' that thought they had no prayer of ever getting a top-16 seed, so they decided the opportunity to "buy'' the home-court advantage was a good alternative.
And let's get down even further to brass tacks. Of the 10-member Division I women's basketball committee, not one member is currently at a school that has ever competed in the Women's Final Four. Three are at schools that haven't ever played in the women's NCAA Tournament. Another is at a school that competed in it once.
I'm sure they're hard-working and they care and they want the best for women's basketball. However, it's reasonable to question if they have a good idea what that is or how to get there.
The committee, ESPN, anybody else in a decision-making capacity and the coaches all need to realize we are at a crossroads.
Again, Mechelle has enlightened us concerning the pre-determined sites. Maybe each of us can encourage our coaches to lobby for a change. Below are a few comments from the article. Thanks Mechelle.
Mechelle Voepel-
Message to coaches: If you are at the top level -- or aspire to be -- in this sport, your career is judged on the NCAA Tournament. Some of you know a lot more about your sport than anybody else does. Can't enough of you who are influential, financially secure and have proven yourselves to be concerned about more than just your own program please band together and force people to listen to you?
In the past two years, we've heard everyone from Pat Summitt to Jody Conradt to Geno Auriemma to Marsha Sharp talk about the problems with pre-determined sites and their overall worries about the tournament. Last season, the committee sent a few "hush-up'' messages to some coaches. And the committee will be quick to say the "majority'' of coaches voted in favor of pre-determination. I would say that's the "majority'' that thought they had no prayer of ever getting a top-16 seed, so they decided the opportunity to "buy'' the home-court advantage was a good alternative.
And let's get down even further to brass tacks. Of the 10-member Division I women's basketball committee, not one member is currently at a school that has ever competed in the Women's Final Four. Three are at schools that haven't ever played in the women's NCAA Tournament. Another is at a school that competed in it once.
I'm sure they're hard-working and they care and they want the best for women's basketball. However, it's reasonable to question if they have a good idea what that is or how to get there.
The committee, ESPN, anybody else in a decision-making capacity and the coaches all need to realize we are at a crossroads.