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Date Posted: 15:43:31 11/26/25 Wed
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Go Green
's message, "Battle4Atlantis" on 09:59:27 11/26/25 Wed
I believe that, in the evolutionary timeline from Neanderthals and Denisovans into Homo Sapiens, this is the progression of the in-season tournament species:
(1) We're not going to pay you anything and we're going to make you fly somewhere really inconvenient, cold and miserable, but you'll do it because these games don't count against your NCAA season limit. (Alaska tournaments)
(2) We're not going to pay you anything. We're going to let you fly somewhere really inconvenient, but warm and sunny. You'll barely have time to dip your toe into the hotel pool, let alone the beach, but you'll do it because these games don't count against your NCAA season limit. (Maui tournaments)
(3) We're not going to pay you anything. We're going to let you fly somewhere reasonably convenient, warm and sunny. Maybe because you won't spend eight hours on a plane getting here, you might have time to dip your toe into the ocean. (Bahamas and Virgin Islands tournaments)
(4) We're not going to pay you anything. But we're going to let you fly somewhere warm and sunny, plus what happens at the Spearmint Rhino stays at the Spearmint Rhino. (first generation Las Vegas tournaments)
(5) Not only is Las Vegas warm and sunny, your trip to the Rhino will be funded by the $1 million dollars we're giving you. As Lorne Michaels said when inviting the Beatles to appear on the first 1975 season of Saturday Night Live, "I'm offering you one millllion dollars. You can split it evenly, or give Ringo less. I don't care." (Players Era tournament at the MGM Grand)
Coming soon. . .
(6) In-season tournaments will have to bid on teams to show up. The CBOE will set up a central clearing house where brokers will engage in open outcry on which teams are sent to which tournaments.
And eventually. . .
(7) All non-conference games will be scheduled using a bid and offer system between vistors and hosts. Why should Yale play Green Bay or Vermont when other teams and their private equity sponsors are willing to pay more?
(8) Come to think of it, traveling to Ithaca or Hanover in the middle of February doesn't sound so great, either. Ivy League players will ask, "You want me to get on the bus in the middle of winter. What's in it for me financially?"
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