A little love from Dickie V

[InWuWeTrust]

anyone got a picture of turd and marshall talking before wu's game against tennessee in 06? i always got a kick out of it.

[ripemupshocks]

There are four levels of play in college basketball. Mid-major is one of them. I prefer mid-major because non-BCS puts us on the same level as teams like Jacksonville St. or Southern. The levels are:

1. Low-major
2. Mid-major
3. Quasi-major
4. BCS

We are a mid-major. We are AS GOOD as a quasi-major, but we don't have the accomplishments to back it up (top-25 and NCAA tournament appearances). Teams like UNLV, San Diego State and Gonzaga are quasi-major. I love the term "quasi-major" because those teams get huge national respect and it only takes ONE year to earn the title and about three or four years to fall back to "mid-major." Creighton, with just this one season, has become a quasi-major program. San Diego State did it last year, before which they were mid-major at best. Butler, on the other hand, is having a subpar year, yet still gets attention and respect from national media. Wichita State is on the verge of becoming quasi-major.

BCS is the only misleading title. Wake Forrest (or any lackluster program in a BCS conference) is perceived, generally, to be better than Wichita State (or any mid-major). Now, that's very untrue, but it's just the way it is. We hate it, but there's nothing Wichita State can do about it until we step in as a quasi-major. We just need a year that we are ranked for more than 3/4 of the season and get a seed above 7 in the tournament. The future is bright, people!

But in fact, the term Bowl Championship Series is used in reference to ALL teams within the big six conferences, (Big-10, Pac-12, Big-12, Big East, ACC, SEC), not just particular teams from within the big six conferences. As an example; Iowa State, no matter how bad they may be in basketball, football or any other sport, is a BCS program, because they play in a BCS conference. If you are going to lump BCS in with the levels of Quasi-Major, Mid-Major, and Low-Major, then those levels should, just as with BCS, apply not to individual teams, but to conferences, and ALL teams within that conference. That explains why teams from the A-10, MWC, and C-USA, are not included in many Mid-Major rankings. No matter how bad a team from those conferences may be, they are not considered Mid-Major simply because they are in a conference that is not considered Mid-Major. Which leads me to ask, how does a conference move up from Mid-Major to Quasi-Major?

[GoShockers89]

how does a conference move up from Mid-Major to Quasi-Major?

By opting out of the Bracketbusters event.