Production Meetings

Remember last week what the world was talking about? No Owens didn't get into it because of how absurd it was. But it is now necessary to recap.

Sometime after the brackets were unveiled, Bob Knight, excuse me, ESPN Analyst Bob Knight (do you think he has a business card?) came out and said how they should do away with the automatic bids for the tourney and double the field and play it out. All of a sudden, about half of the ESPN "crew" agreed with Coach Knight.

I didn't get into it because this is the most absurd thing I've ever heard of. Why would you do that? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This year we have only two #2 seeds in the Sweet 16 (No Owens has both WV and Davidson by the way) not to mention there was a 12-13 game resulting in Western Kentucky hitting the Sweet 16 after winning a game in the most dramatic fashion. Games have been great this year. Why do we need to change anything?

So this week what have we got. We have Dicky V coming out on Monday saying that players shouldn't be able to foul out of games. Um. Thanks Dick. The reasoning being that officials have too much control over a game and after one player gets in trouble, say it's a key player, a team is completely effected.

Apparently V had Georgetown doing something in the tourney. They ogre Hibbert was in foul trouble all day in the second round and allowed that crazy little sophomore from Davidson to get in the lane and shoot runners...when he wasn't crushing threes. Davidson was going to win that game regardless. Georgetown doesn't play a tourney like game these days. Davidson has the hot player. Ask Wally's World about what one person can do.

Regardless. V said that maybe after the fifth foul, you get two shots and the ball. Ok. What's going to stop that ogre from just hacking people all over the place? I mean, go big or go home, right? Knight and V are so out of line, I just find it hard that they would actually come up with some ridiculous scheme like that.

Is it a coincidence that all this is happening? I mean, I listen to some ESPN Radio, only because I can't stand amateur mornings on the radio in Nashville. And I like the legit guests they bring on. But seriously...what do the ESPN executives talk about in their production meetings? I mean, they have to say something like, "Look, let's come up with something ridiculous. Then we'll have someone reputable back it and have the whole country talk about it for a week, until we have to come up with something else ridiculous."

I mean, these concepts are out there. And how can you take anyone who comes up with/agrees with this seriously? I miss old school ESPN. Before it became a beauty contest. Give me info. I don't really care what you think. That's why you read No Owens.