2024 NCAA Tourney

[cornfed24-7]

No worries. We disagree only slightly . 

[HuskerFever]

I just want to point out that it's really nice that we can still have a lot of dialogue on this board this late into the season. It's been five years. Ten if you only include NCAA tournaments.

[Norm Peterson]

14 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

 

 

For a guy who makes north of $3 million/year, these don't seem like very big bonuses.

 

I'd rather pay a guy a smaller amount in annual salary and then really reward him if he hits some target results.

 

$300,000 to win an NCAA championship? You need to add a zero to that figure.

 

But the flip side is don't pay anyone $3 million/year unless tied to results.

[cornfed24-7]

7 minutes ago, Norm Peterson said:

 

For a guy who makes north of $3 million/year, these don't seem like very big bonuses.

 

I'd rather pay a guy a smaller amount in annual salary and then really reward him if he hits some target results.

 

$300,000 to win an NCAA championship? You need to add a zero to that figure.

 

But the flip side is don't pay anyone $3 million/year unless tied to results.

For real. Winning a championship in basketball at Nebraska is worth a 7 figure bonus and a lifetime contract. 

[jayschool]

5 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

For real. Winning a championship in basketball at Nebraska is worth a 7 figure bonus and a lifetime contract. 

And at least two statues.

[HuskerFever]

People forget that by winning a national championship at Nebraska, your new base salary is about to shoot up; whether that's at Nebraska or another school. He'll be just fine with a $300K bonus (+new base salary when the time comes).

[Bugeaters1]

Let's hopoe that we don't get this clown for a ref.

 

 

[Cazzie22]

17 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Let's hopoe that we don't get this clown for a ref.

 

 

I cannot believe Ted Valentine is still officiating.  He thinks he’s bigger than the game.  

[Cazzie22]

15 hours ago, hskr4life said:

Big East: Yikes… where did all their bids go?

 

Mountain West: Kudos to committee for not allowing them to beat up on each other and push each other’s seeds up.  Only a few of them actually challenged themselves OOC.

 

FAU, Iowa St kind of show that conference tourney games sometimes don’t mean as much as we think.

 

1 away from a 7 seed but you have to wonder if we’d have gotten it should we have beaten Illinois.  I’m not so sure now seeing what happened with both Iowa St and FAU.

 

Oklahoma goes from Top 10 team to 1st out and we were never ranked the entire year yet end up wearing home whites game 1.  Gotta love CBB man.  Also shows that AP Polls mean diddly squat.

 

Gonzaga and St Mary’s both a 5??  Umm?

 

Next year we need to schedule a bit tougher cupcakes and find ourselves a few neutral sites or get into a MTE.

Who carries Mountain West games? CBS

[hskr4life]

Just now, Cazzie22 said:

Who carries Mountain West games? CBS

Yes.  And always on pretty late.

[NeeandMe]

27 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Let's hopoe that we don't get this clown for a ref.

 

 

Gross

[hskr4life]

I assume Teddy V has at least been reffing SOMEWHERE and isn’t just coming off the bench for this lol.  So does anyone know what conference he officiates for?

[REDZONEDAN]

1 hour ago, cornfed24-7 said:

For real. Winning a championship in basketball at Nebraska is worth a 7 figure bonus and a lifetime contract. 

Minimum s/b $1 million.  I’d like to see it even higher than that.  $2.5-$3 million would be worth paying for a National Championship.

[Bugeaters1]

3 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

I assume Teddy V has at least been reffing SOMEWHERE and isn’t just coming off the bench for this lol.  So does anyone know what conference he officiates for?

I haven't found anything on Freddy yet. But I did come across this though.

How much does a Division 1 men's basketball referee make?

 

 

Salary Ranges for Ncaa Basketball Referee

The salaries of Ncaa Basketball Referees in The US range from $14,793 to $989,840 with a median salary of $64,973. Most of Ncaa Basketball Referee make between $55,255 to $69,607.

 

[jimmykc]

6 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

I assume Teddy V has at least been reffing SOMEWHERE and isn’t just coming off the bench for this lol.  So does anyone know what conference he officiates for?

For anyone wondering, he is either 64 or 65 years old now. Sounds like he may consider himself the Satchell Paige of referees.

[Bugeaters1]

2 minutes ago, jimmykc said:

For anyone wondering, he is either 64 or 65 years old now. Sounds like he may consider himself the Satchell Paige of referees.

Yeah, his bio says he was born in 58 or 59.

[HuskerFever]

3 minutes ago, jimmykc said:

For anyone wondering, he is either 64 or 65 years old now. Sounds like he may consider himself the Satchell Paige of referees.

 

Too young to become a Shim Sham.

[jimmykc]

                                                               

2 minutes ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Yeah, his bio says he was born in 58 or 59.

Early dementia? That should make him eligible for a Big Ten ref next year.

[Cazzie22]

37 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

I assume Teddy V has at least been reffing SOMEWHERE and isn’t just coming off the bench for this lol.  So does anyone know what conference he officiates for?

He works ACC.

[tcp]

TV Ted is a name I hope to never hear on a broadcast ever again....as someone on twittler put it earlier, he's like the Angel Hernandez of basketball officials...

[Bugeaters1]

This guy likes to have fun.

 

 

[KZRider]

2 hours ago, jimmykc said:

For anyone wondering, he is either 64 or 65 years old now. Sounds like he may consider himself the Satchell Paige of referees.

But Satchel Paige could actually PITCH. TVTed never could ref.

[hhcmatt]

We're not playing an ACC team so we'd be relatively ok with TV Teddy. If anything, we'd get the benefit of the doubt because we're the home team.

[Ron Mexico]

9 hours ago, Chuck Taylor said:

I'm going to step into it here. I don't know how the women's committee works, but imo the men's matchup was just a fluke. I've been tracking bracketology for weeks, and this matchup has been out there waiting to happen. I checked right after the Trev news and thought, "oh, boy." 

 

The committee had a hard enough time figuring out who was in. Then it had to avoid matches through a couple rounds among Mountain West teams (4), Big Ten (3), SEC (2) and Pac 12 (2) in the 7-10 slots. Bracket Matrix had us paired with 9 seed Michigan State. Go up a line, and we're paired with Northwestern. Those don't work, so go down a line and ... TEXAS A&M.

 

Please try completing a seed list without regard to conferences and then get them to fit into a bracket while avoiding conference matchups for 2 rounds. If you think that sounds like too much work, then try doing it by committee. The committee members were up until 2 a.m. Sunday completing the field, and it's hard to believe they spent any time discussing how to arrange this matchup because it fit some kind of narrative.

 

Finally, what would be the motivation for the matchup?

Committee members hate Trev? Seems like he gets along well with his people, aside from the entire state of Nebraska now.

TV? I hate to break it to you, but 95%+ of the viewers don't know about Trev or care. His departure is a big story here and that's about it.

 

The women's process is not as transparent, and there aren't many bracketologists. But I'd guess their committee faces the same difficulties in the process and would not spent a lot of time on "interesting matchups."

 

 

I'm just going to leave this here

 

[cozrulz]

7 hours ago, Norm Peterson said:

 

For a guy who makes north of $3 million/year, these don't seem like very big bonuses.

 

I'd rather pay a guy a smaller amount in annual salary and then really reward him if he hits some target results.

 

$300,000 to win an NCAA championship? You need to add a zero to that figure.

 

But the flip side is don't pay anyone $3 million/year unless tied to results.

 

$10 million at least for a national championship