Can anyone listening give a Kietz monologue rundown?

[catzacker]

Weiser thinks team names should be removed from the selection committee's databases and discussion, and use codes for each team instead, to ensure that conference affiliations and personal biases are truly removed from the equation.

It's incredibly retarded to think that.  Amazingly retarded.  The answer to teams getting screwed is to award the bid to conference regular season champs.  The 4-5 spots this year that were taken because teams like Xavier, Butler, Nevada, etc. lost would have gone to teams like Syracuse, WV, Drexel and KSU. 

[kougar24]

Weiser thinks team names should be removed from the selection committee's databases and discussion, and use codes for each team instead, to ensure that conference affiliations and personal biases are truly removed from the equation.

It's incredibly retarded to think that.  Amazingly retarded.  The answer to teams getting screwed is to award the bid to conference regular season champs.  The 4-5 spots this year that were taken because teams like Xavier, Butler, Nevada, etc. lost would have gone to teams like Syracuse, WV, Drexel and KSU. 

How is it "amazingly retarded" to think removing team names from the equation would make the system more fair?

[cireksu]

How many confrences are there in D-1 bball?

[opcat]

Anything that stops the commission pushing their own conference favorites I am for.

[CatMission]

How many confrences are there in D-1 bball?

31 conferences get auto bids

[kougar24]

How many confrences are there in D-1 bball?

31 conferences get auto bids

And how many of those conferences' autobids have won an NCAA Tourney game in the past 5 years?

[Kat Kid]

How many confrences are there in D-1 bball?

31 conferences get auto bids

And how many of those conferences' autobids have won an NCAA Tourney game in the past 5 years?

Is that your argument?

[kougar24]

How many confrences are there in D-1 bball?

31 conferences get auto bids

And how many of those conferences' autobids have won an NCAA Tourney game in the past 5 years?

Is that your argument?

I say if your conference is ranked in the bottom 16, your tourney winner must play a play-in game to get a bid. Another way to go would be to revoke a conference's autobid if its winner hasn't won a Tourney game in 5 years.

[Leyton]

Weiser thinks team names should be removed from the selection committee's databases and discussion, and use codes for each team instead, to ensure that conference affiliations and personal biases are truly removed from the equation.

That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard an athletic director say.  Really.  "So, committee, you cannot base your decision on any games you've watched this year.  Nope.  Only on which RPI lost/won against other RPIs."  We all know how trustworthy the RPI is, right?  If tourney selection were all about a computerized ranking (like, you know, the RPI), we wouldn't have had a chance in hell of getting picked for the tourney.  It wouldn't be possible to do a blind selection WITHOUT some kind of raking - the committee members' heads would explode.  Here's a better idea - get a balanced committee (call me crazy, but maybe the Big 12 should be represented in some way) and implement some checks and balances so that teams with laughable resumes like Illinois and Arkansas don't make it in.