Alleva Still Calling Shots...

[ChapelHeeled]

So, I actually did not take an early look this season as I was somewhat certain that Joe would have to be gone by now. However, to my surprise,Joe Alleva is still on the NCAA Selection Committee. Someone remind me why he chose to leave Duke in the first place. The last thing that I remember clearly concerning Alleva was his involvement in a boating wreck. Thanks in advance...

Once A Dookie...

 

[Bubspub88]

With a dookie and guy from cretin on the committee I am surprised we don't play uk in our first game

 

[ChapelHeeled]

It is way past time for Alleva to be gone as for my feelings concerning this situation (year after year). Then some wonder why so many around the globe despise Duke with a passion...

 

[UNCWayno]

Why does anyone even wonder why dook gets the easy paths they do? Pretty simple if you pay attention.

 

[heelmanwilm]

If we had dooks record and swept them we would have an easy path. Noone to blame but ourselves.
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[ChapelHeeled]

I do not agree with you Heelnwill... I will offer the Duke 2010 path that was given to them by the NCAA Tournament Committee... Even the national press picked up that one as almost all of the teams in Dukes way to the Final Four had a serious injury or two to their star players (jmho, fact). So, wasn't Alleva on the NCAA Tournament Committee that season as well? Regardless, Duke did not win the ACC (neither the regular season nor the ACCT) this year. Virginia should have gotten a ONE SEED before Duke this year. Heck, a case could also be made for Notre Dame. I guess that I will agree to disagree with your post concerning this topic. Have a good day regardless...

 

[ChapelHeeled]

Many articles were written nationally concerning this. Having stated that I will also say that the article in this posting does a better than average job of explaining the problem (imo)....
This post was edited on 3/18 10:03 PM by ChapelHeeled

One Article Concerning Duke Basketball And 2010

 

[ChapelHeeled]

Another article from 2010

Not Pulling For Duke

 

[ChapelHeeled]

Just a note to state that on Sunday Alleva was one seat down from the Dook bench. Sitting in the same row with clock operators, official scorers, TV monitors (etc.). Yeah, he was there with Mikes team playing on Sunday... Selection Committee much...?

 

[DeanFor President]

Originally posted by ChapelHeeled:



I do not agree with you Heelnwill... I will offer the Duke 2010 path that was given to them by the NCAA Tournament Committee... Even the national press picked up that one as almost all of the teams in Dukes way to the Final Four had a serious injury or two to their star players (jmho, fact). So, wasn't Alleva on the NCAA Tournament Committee that season as well? Regardless, Duke did not win the ACC (neither the regular season nor the ACCT) this year. Virginia should have gotten a ONE SEED before Duke this year. Heck, a case could also be made for Notre Dame. I guess that I will agree to disagree with your post concerning this topic. Have a good day regardless...

Nailed it

 

[Heelicious]

Originally posted by ChapelHeeled:



I do not agree with you Heelnwill... I will offer the Duke 2010 path that was given to them by the NCAA Tournament Committee... Even the national press picked up that one as almost all of the teams in Dukes way to the Final Four had a serious injury or two to their star players (jmho, fact). So, wasn't Alleva on the NCAA Tournament Committee that season as well? Regardless, Duke did not win the ACC (neither the regular season nor the ACCT) this year. Virginia should have gotten a ONE SEED before Duke this year. Heck, a case could also be made for Notre Dame. I guess that I will agree to disagree with your post concerning this topic. Have a good day regardless...

Agreed - and even ranking this year's #1 seeds, they must've considered Duke the 2nd or third best #1 seed, and Wiscy as the 4th best, since they set up the brackets to have the 1&4 #1 seeds and the 2&3 #1 seeds to match in the in the semi-finals, setting up a theoretical top two teams in the championship.

So Wisc who won their regular season and post season conference tourney, gets seeded lower than Dook. Maybe Nova did too, and they also won both regular and post season Big East, correct? Nice.

Duke has what seems as the weakest #2, #3, #5, #8/9 in the tourney, and looks on line to meet an offense challenged MSU seven seed in the finals. Also nice

One not-quite related thing I noticed about most (not all) of the Duke players on Sunday. They gave fist bumps to the three officials during intros. I've never seen any other players do this. MAYBE the coaches should shake hands and speak to the officials, but the officials and players should not be friends, or even acknowledge each other, IMO.

Crazy, I know, but I think there should be an unwritten rule in college BB where the players don't talk to the officials - during or especially before the game, or in play stoppage. And no players, especially whining flopping "never fouling" dookies should be on a friendly, "here's hoping you call it right for us" basis with the officials.

 

[racinheel]

This has nothing to do with Alleva or dook but I noticed after the West Virginia game that Huggins said calishady called him 2 weeks before the tournament and told him they were going to be in the same bracket. How did he know this? Or was he just guessing because they've been in the same bracket the last couple years? Was I was just reading too much into it?

 

[Tom79]

By NCAA rule, no player other than a team captain or coaching staff may speak to a game official. Officials used to be very tough on this rule. Kept the whiners at bay...these days everyone gets to speak with them...fist bumps prior to the game at introductions is just dang weird.

 

[TarHeelMark]

Originally posted by racinheel:
This has nothing to do with Alleva or dook but I noticed after the West Virginia game that Huggins said calishady called him 2 weeks before the tournament and told him they were going to be in the same bracket. How did he know this? Or was he just guessing because they've been in the same bracket the last couple years? Was I was just reading too much into it?

I think it was more of Cal guessing that this was going to happen again.... same as how the committee typically sticks us in Kansas's bracket year after year. I guess this year they were able to manufacture a more interesting scenario with KU - Witchita State, plus the whole Roy vs. Kansas game is getting trite.