NCAA FINAL FOUR PREDICTIONS
There are many ways to pick which team you think could win this weekends Final Four with all team seemingly so evenly paired. So I took it as my duty to create some ways to help make this choice easier on you the fan.
The match-ups consist of Memphis vs UCLA in the first game and North Carolina and Kansas in the night cap. Here are some simple ways you can decide who you will be cheering for as these teams take the court tonight.
TEAM COLORS:
UCLA – True Blue and Gold
Memphis – Blue and Gray
North Carolina – Carolina Blue and White
Kansas – KU Blue, KU Signature Gray, KU Crimson and Jayhawk Yellow
WINNER: University of North Carolina
Anytime your entire state has a color that is pretty powerful. What is up with Kansas trying to take over Crayola with all those colors?
TEAM MASCOT:
UCLA – Bruins
Memphis – Tigers
North Carolina – Tar Heels
Kansas – Jayhawks
WINNER: UCLA
This is a tough one because none of them are all that great. What exactly is a Tarheel? According to the school themselves no one really knows. Tigers and Jayhawks are pretty common. However Memphis does have a live Tiger (Tom II), which could have swayed my vote if he had at some point mauled someone during a sporting event in recent history. So I will go with UCLA Bruins, although their actually mascot looks like a pansy.
CENTER COURT LOGO:
UCLA – Pretty plain, simple says “UCLA”
Memphis – A large “M” with a Tiger
North Carolina – The state of North Carolina
Kansas – The Largest Jayhawk you will ever see.
WINNER: Kansas
How could you not like how ridiculously large that logo is at half court?!
BEST COEDS:
This is a more of a “look for yourself” type part.
UCLA – Dance team , nice
Memphis – Seem like the party type
North Carolina – "Girls of the ACC cover girl" Evelyn Gery
Kansas – "Girls of the Big XII" Jennifer Whalen
WINNER: UCLA dance team seems to have all the right moves.
As for my picks, I’m going with Memphis and UNC tonight and UNC on Monday. I would love to see UCLA and Kansas both win especially UCLA since that would help me out financially (wink). I just think that both UNC and Memphis are too fast and high-powered for the other two teams. If they both win it could make for a fun Championship Monday evening.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Going Pro in Something Other Than Common Sense
-There are over 380,000 NCAA Students athletes, and just about all of them will be going pro in something other than sports.
If you have watched college athletics on television over the past few years I’m sure you have heard this tagline after nearly every commercial for the NCAA at least once or twice.
Now, I know that the NCAA stands for National Collegiate Athletic Association, and their focus is to be what is best for the student athletes. I won’t get into what a joke I believe that is considering how much money the NCAA makes off of the athletes. However I did not know that while looking out for what is best for the student athletes and helping them “go pro in something other than sports,” it does the opposite for the rest of the student body, the non-athletes.
March 17th the NCAA announced that no schools in the NCAA Tournament would be allowed to have their university run radio stations broadcast the games. The same stations that have broadcast most of the games this season for UCLA and North Carolina (home games only for Memphis and Kansas) will not be allowed to travel and broadcast the games this March. Why you may ask, money, greed, stupidity, you chose.
The NCAA has a contract with Westwood One for all right to any Internet broadcasts for the NCAA Tournament through its agreement with CBS sports. Whether or not the NCAA ever thought this could be an issue, we will never know, but between Westwood One and the NCAA, they are preventing non-student athletes in preparing themselves to “go pro in something other than sports.”
The most listeners EVER for a broadcasted game on UCLAradio.com were 500. That occurred last fall for the UCLA-USC football game. Do you really think that 500 people NOT listening to the Westwood One feed will hurt their rating much? It must affect it more than I would think considering that UCLAradio.com was able to broadcast every game last year in the NCAA Tournament including a semifinal loss to eventual champion Florida in the Final Four.
I understand that technically Westwood One does have the rights to do as they please, but the right thing to do here is let the students call the game. Westwood One would never notice in the ratings and these kids would get to take part in an experience that would great as they move forward in the careers “going pro in something other than sports.”
If you have watched college athletics on television over the past few years I’m sure you have heard this tagline after nearly every commercial for the NCAA at least once or twice.
Now, I know that the NCAA stands for National Collegiate Athletic Association, and their focus is to be what is best for the student athletes. I won’t get into what a joke I believe that is considering how much money the NCAA makes off of the athletes. However I did not know that while looking out for what is best for the student athletes and helping them “go pro in something other than sports,” it does the opposite for the rest of the student body, the non-athletes.
March 17th the NCAA announced that no schools in the NCAA Tournament would be allowed to have their university run radio stations broadcast the games. The same stations that have broadcast most of the games this season for UCLA and North Carolina (home games only for Memphis and Kansas) will not be allowed to travel and broadcast the games this March. Why you may ask, money, greed, stupidity, you chose.
The NCAA has a contract with Westwood One for all right to any Internet broadcasts for the NCAA Tournament through its agreement with CBS sports. Whether or not the NCAA ever thought this could be an issue, we will never know, but between Westwood One and the NCAA, they are preventing non-student athletes in preparing themselves to “go pro in something other than sports.”
The most listeners EVER for a broadcasted game on UCLAradio.com were 500. That occurred last fall for the UCLA-USC football game. Do you really think that 500 people NOT listening to the Westwood One feed will hurt their rating much? It must affect it more than I would think considering that UCLAradio.com was able to broadcast every game last year in the NCAA Tournament including a semifinal loss to eventual champion Florida in the Final Four.
I understand that technically Westwood One does have the rights to do as they please, but the right thing to do here is let the students call the game. Westwood One would never notice in the ratings and these kids would get to take part in an experience that would great as they move forward in the careers “going pro in something other than sports.”
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