You are also making a good point in favor of taking the top 4 instead of conference champs in the football championship. Better yet, expand to 16 teams with conference champs, at large/wildcards like the pros.
Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Bob Parks, LLC 1517 Hunt Club Blvd Gallatin TN 37066 615-972-4239 615-826-4040 Sent from my iPhone On May 31, 2012, at 1:22 PM, John Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 31, 2012, at 7:18 AM, JunoGator wrote: > >> In the 77 seasons prior to hiring him, the Gators reached the NCAA >> Tournament five times and won the SEC once. Since he arrived, they have been >> in the tournament 12 years and captured the conference five times. > > This is a silly factoid. The NCAA tournament did not even exist 77 years > before we hired Donovan. > > Now, there were 56 years of NCAA pre-Donovan. Prior to 1975, only conference > champions could be in the tourney. That led to some absurdities, such as the > #2 team in the country (Southern Cal) missing the tourney one year as it was > in the same conference as UCLA. > > We have had the good fortune to be in the same conference as Kentucky so, > like Southern Cal, even our very good teams did not qualify until the NCAA > added "at large" teams to the field. So, we really are looking at a 20 year > window; not 77 years of Florida basketball. > > -Zeb > > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
