Author Topic: 2014 NCAA Tourney games thread (Read 38693 times)

ksupamplemousse · « **Reply #25 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:01:35 PM »

Quote from: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 20, 2014, 01:55:58 PM

I hate Warren Buffett for doing this billion dollar bracket. eff everyone that's talking about it.

99.99999999999999999999% of people will be out of the running tomorrow, so I'm sure the talk will die down quickly.

Cire · « **Reply #26 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:01:52 PM »

yeah, it's pretty effing awesome of warren buffet.

Trim · « **Reply #27 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:06:22 PM »

I didn't want to eff with quicken loans.

EllRobersonisInnocent · « **Reply #28 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:06:44 PM »

Quote from: Cire on March 20, 2014, 02:01:52 PM

yeah, it's pretty effing awesome of warren buffet.

It is smart of him to collect emails and personal info on millions of people who have absolutely no chance of winning the billion.

ksupamplemousse · « **Reply #29 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:09:43 PM »

Quote from: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 20, 2014, 02:06:44 PM

Quote from: Cire on March 20, 2014, 02:01:52 PM
yeah, it's pretty effing awesome of warren buffet.

It is smart of him to collect emails and personal info on millions of people who have absolutely no chance of winning the billion.

Buffet was the second shooter.

EllRobersonisInnocent · « **Reply #30 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:16:00 PM »

Quote from: ksudeuce on March 20, 2014, 02:09:43 PM

Quote from: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 20, 2014, 02:06:44 PM
Quote from: Cire on March 20, 2014, 02:01:52 PM
yeah, it's pretty effing awesome of warren buffet.

It is smart of him to collect emails and personal info on millions of people who have absolutely no chance of winning the billion.

Buffet was the second shooter.

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although Warren Buffet almost certainly won’t be out $1,000,000,000, Quicken certainly will distribute cash prizes: $100,000 to each of the top 20 contestants. Since only the first 15 million entrants are eligible, your chance of being one of the top 20 is 1:750,000 (assuming the contest fills up to capacity).

Namely, you have to fill out a bracket and sign up for a Yahoo account. You also have to give Quicken your personal information — your name, address, date of birth — and answer mortgage-related questions. (“Do you plan to purchase a home?” Etc.)

Filling out the bracket will take time, which, as the cliché goes, is money; the Yahoo account is valuable to Yahoo; and the personal information is valuable to Quicken.

So if you fill out a bracket, it’s best to think that what you’re really doing is competing to win $100,000, not $1,000,000,000, and, in the process, helping an Internet company and a mortgage company collect data.

ksupamplemousse · « **Reply #31 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:17:42 PM »

I was just messing around man. I didn't fill out the bracket for that very reason.

Belvis Noland · « **Reply #32 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:18:52 PM »

Quote from: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 20, 2014, 02:06:44 PM

Quote from: Cire on March 20, 2014, 02:01:52 PM
yeah, it's pretty effing awesome of warren buffet.

It is smart of him to collect emails and personal info on millions of people who have absolutely no chance of winning the billion.

I don't recall entering very much personal info. Just gave my proxy, junk mail, yahoo account. Plus, NSA. ya know, Warren Buffet and Quicken are the least of your worries, friend.

EllRobersonisInnocent · « **Reply #33 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:19:29 PM »

Syracuse should have a cake walk to the E8

Belvis Noland · « **Reply #34 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:21:15 PM »

Quote from: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 20, 2014, 02:19:29 PM

Syracuse should have a cake walk to the E8

New Mexico is gonna trash both KU and Syracuse, FWIW.

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #35 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:27:04 PM »

You can say no to all that crap when filling out the bracket.

MixBerryCrunch · « **Reply #36 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:29:32 PM »

CU already mumped me out of the billion, I had Dayton with the upset....On a sidenote Spiro (sp?) and Gottlieb are by the best broadcasters CBS has and should do pretty much every game after the Sweet 16,

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #37 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:31:35 PM »

Why is Harvard good? Prestigious and all, but no schollys.

AbeFroman · « **Reply #38 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:35:06 PM »

Quote from: WackySquawk08 on March 20, 2014, 02:31:35 PM

Why is Harvard good? Prestigious and all, but no schollys.

Probably to spite the "Princeton offense"

MixBerryCrunch · « **Reply #39 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:35:15 PM »

Quote from: WackySquawk08 on March 20, 2014, 02:31:35 PM

Why is Harvard good? Prestigious and all, but no schollys.

Probably because they're allowing Amaker to pick the guys he wants regardless of whether they meet Harvard's academic standard or not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/sports/ncaabasketball/02harvard.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I only care because I had Cincy.

Trogdor · « **Reply #40 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:50:16 PM »

Quote from: Cire on March 20, 2014, 02:01:52 PM

yeah, it's pretty effing awesome of warren buffet.

Probs sitting on a throne of money maniacally cackling

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #41 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:57:55 PM »

Quote from: WackySquawk08 on March 20, 2014, 02:27:04 PM

You can say no to all that crap when filling out the bracket.

Not if you want to be eligible for the billion dollars you can't.

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #42 on:** March 20, 2014, 02:58:25 PM »

Quote from: Belvis Noland on March 20, 2014, 02:18:52 PM

Quote from: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 20, 2014, 02:06:44 PM
Quote from: Cire on March 20, 2014, 02:01:52 PM
yeah, it's pretty effing awesome of warren buffet.

It is smart of him to collect emails and personal info on millions of people who have absolutely no chance of winning the billion.

I don't recall entering very much personal info. Just gave my proxy, junk mail, yahoo account. Plus, NSA. ya know, Warren Buffet and Quicken are the least of your worries, friend.

Didn't you have to give a phone number?