Saw the other day that college hoops journo Seth Davis is reporting that Fox Sports is angling to bring us yet another men's basketball tournament, this one including all the Big East, Big Ten and Big 12 schools that didn't make the real tournament. It would be played in Las Vegas in late March.
I can't tell you how eagerly I await this. Oh, wait, I don't.
I mean, we already have the NIT for those teams that didn't make the real tournament. No one watches it that I know of. Yet somehow Fox thinks there's a burgeoning Losers Backet market out there that's fairly hungering for more losers?
We already tried this years ago with the blessedly short-lived Collegiate Commissioners Association tournament, which teams that didn't make the real tournament were required to play. Its most famous moment was when Bob Knight got teed up one year and said "It's a consolation tournament and we got consolation officials."
(Hat tip to Friend of the Blob Andrew Smith for that nugget)
But, hey. Recycling is what we do in America, even if it's recycling dumb ideas. In that spirit, as a public service, the Blob humbly offers a few possible marketing brands for this particular dumb idea:
1. The Little Dance.
2. March Meh-ness.
3. One Shiner Moment.
4. The Street Sixteen ... the Grateful Eight ... the Vinyl Four ...
And last but not least ...
5. Leftoverpalooza!
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