From: ehlerswm@hackney.ecn.purdue.edu (William Mark Ehlers)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: NCAA basketball
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:11:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Just a few thoughts about the final four postings:
1. First of all to all you whinney iu poor losers.  Take it like a man.  Where
were you all season sticking up for the lousy biased refs in all of your wins.
How many times did we here that stinking stat this year about how iu made more
free throws than their opponents even shot.  Face it, you finally played a 
team that was better at this than you were and you got beat.  Who cares about
how the refing is going as long as it is consistent.  If it is consistent all
you have to do is adjust your game.  Duke managed to do just that at the half.
iu didn't.  Stop blamming the refs, your great coach and players weren't able
to adjust to the counter adjustments made by Duke.  

2. Hey loosier fans.  Where is that list of embarassing actions by the Purdue
coaching staff.  The only reply that has been mentioned is the throwing of the
jacket, but hey that is a public service.

3. Duke may not have played like a champion (whatever that means), but they
won 6 games in the tourney and are champs.  I was rooting for Michigan, but I
still realize that Duke took them out of their game.  Also, even though Duke
wasn't playing their best, they still managed to play when it counted to win.
Congradulations to Duke.

4. CBS.  They suck.  I read a commentary this morning about how good of a job
they did.  CBS and their brass must think just like politicians:  We're to 
stupid to make up our own minds and actually understand what is going on.  
This commentary was prasing CBS for stating the obvious.  
I'll have to say again what I said last year about CBS' coverage compared to 
ESPN.  Both of these networks pander to different audiences.  ESPN panders to 
people like us who read the net and follow college basketball as a way of life
not just a great game to watch.  They feed off of the 'netters' and assume 
that we know the game inside and out.  As a result, there comments are more
in depth and use more basketball jargan.  This spoils us for games on national
networks.  CBS panders to the fan that doesn't get ESPN or just likes to watch
the game.  They want to see the teams that get the most hype because that is 
all they hear about during the regular season.  Most people outside of Mass. 
and this net probably didn't no anything at all about UMASS ROOLZ!!! etc.  
They (CBS) has to gear their comments and commentary to meet what their 
audience wants to hear.  This is why we get a lot of Entertainment Tonight
type coverage.  The two networks accomplish their goals with respect to their
audience.  The type of fan that CBS panders to would be challenged and enjoy
ESPN if they had access to it and would then become the type of fan that ESPN
panders to.  However those of us who have ESPN get to watch basketball almost
everyday if we want.  We watch the networks on the weekends because they
usually try to get the best matchups and we tolerate the announcers.  But when
the tourney comes around, we want the type of coverage that ESPN used to have
and CBS hasn't arrived at that level yet.  They are getting better.  Hell,
this year at least they showed afternoon games in the first round unlike last
year.  So they are trying, maybe they will eat some crow and get ESPN's 
opinion on how to do it right.  

Well off my soap box.

later,
			---Mark