Don't know about you but I'm clearly having withdrawal symptoms. I've always enjoyed the season-ending BkB tournaments and since my semi-retirement being able to watch the games, even if MT is not is involved, has been appointment TV. If a game is on, regardless of which tournament, I'm watching. D-1, NIT, D-2 and D-3, CIT and CBI; I'm watching.
We have to remember that that are many citizens who couldn't care less about sports. Others are only casual fans who may watch the Super Bowl because it's on at a party they go to but rarely keep up with any sports. They may watch The Masters just to see Augusta's landscaping. My late sister was a high school BkB star, or so I've been told, but I only recall her attending one BkB game after graduating and her only interest I remember was watching a college FB bowl game if a local (read that as UT-K - VU never went and MT wasn't playing bowl games at the time) team was playing.
As for the lack of communication from Murphy and Cope regarding BkB; What did you expect? No comments and certainly no significant changes after the hugely disappointing FB season. And still no follow up from Insell or any players on their abrupt end to the season.
I'm wondering what each of you think will be both the short-term and long-term effects of this sports "shut down".
In my dreams a few TV sports channels would fold ($EC, BigTen, Longhorn, etc.) and a few shills for all things "Big Time" (Finebaum and Bilas for two) would be on the street collecting food stamps. I wouldn't mind a few radio sports talk show stations and hosts gone either since it's all about pro and "big-time" and much of the talk is not even sports related. I enjoyed sports-talk when it first started and it was all interviews (primarily local coaches - high school and college) and call ins by mostly reasonable fans but now when I scan the stations after entering my vehicles it's rare not to cut the radio off - no topics being discussed are interesting to me.
But that's in my dreams; in reality I know this stoppage, like everything else in the last 50 years will not have a positive effect on MT athletics.
Glad to have a place to vent - Thanks for starting this thread.
