Mark Adams talks to Cincinnati Podcast

[blackandgold]

Mark loves himself some Koch Arena. http://cincinnati.247sports.com/Arti...State-52232979

[DUShock]

A nice chat and Mark Adams will be calling a WSU v Cincy game.

[Shock Top]

A nice chat and Mark Adams will be calling a WSU v Cincy game.

Seriously? That game isn't worthy of Bilas or Vitale?

[choida]

Seriously? That game isn't worthy of Bilas or Vitale?

Fock that... Mark Adams has been incredibly loyal to Wichita state... And yes he's better then those tools

[BOBB]

Fock that... Mark Adams has been incredibly loyal to Wichita state... And yes he's better then those tools

+1

[Shock Top]

I disagree that this doesn't make sense business wise, for either side. WSU being successful will help the AAC and being in the AAC will help WSU be successful.

With success comes eyeballs and $$$

[The Mad Hatter]

I disagree that this doesn't make sense business wise, for either side. WSU being successful will help the AAC and being in the AAC will help WSU be successful.

With success comes eyeballs and $$$

I would agree that it doesn't make short-term business sense (it means immediate cost for WSU and no one gets immediate new revenue guaranteed), but if it leads the on the court success for both WSU and the AAC, the long-term business sense will be a very different matter.

[shocksrbest]

I would agree that it doesn't make short-term business sense (it means immediate cost for WSU and no one gets immediate new revenue guaranteed), but if it leads the on the court success for both WSU and the AAC, the long-term business sense will be a very different matter.

...provided the league keeps their high-profile teams long term. I think it will even though many would rather be elsewhere.

Am excited to see a new exuberance in Shocker fans as different rivalries are created.

[Kel Varnsen]

Fock that... Mark Adams has been incredibly loyal to Wichita state... And yes he's better then those tools

Bilas is great but Vitale has become a caricature of himself. I really want to play on FOX so Gus Johnson can do PBP for one of our games. "Frankamp with the three! PURE!"

[WuDrWu]

McDuffie rise and fire.....

[shoxilla]

It's gonna be nasty. Adams deserves front row seat.

[ShockingButTrue]

Fock that... Mark Adams has been incredibly loyal to Wichita state... And yes he's better then those tools

Yep

[Heinro]

Very good podcast. I've now listened to the Cincy guy a couple of times, I really like it.

2 things I found most interesting:

#1 The P5 Challenges and the Basketball budgets as compared to buying home games. As mentioned in another thread, I would love to buy UT Arlington, but even with budgets like Cincy's and WSU's, we can't get those games because our budgets aren't big enough to out pay the huge budget teams.

#2 If the AAC can't get a challenge, maybe the others need to go and set up almost a bracket busters of sorts, where 3-4 AAC schools, Gonazaga, St. Mary's, Dayton, VCU, maybe a few others from the 1 bid leagues, (those schools expected to be good in the given year) leave open a game date in February to play get a home and home with each other, seeded by RPI or whatever. That was one of the great things about the early years of the bracket busters, 1. an OOC game later in the year to break up the monotony of conference play and 2. you knew it was going to be a good game. A discussion would need to be made whether the AAC would want to do something like that, since it would give off a perception it isn't as good of a league as the P5s or even the Big East. Obviously, best case scenario would be to get a challenge vs a Big East or a Pac 12.

Also, I second the comments above regarding Mark. I'd gladly listen to him call our game @Cincy. He does a very good job of promoting teams and he is extremely knowledgable. Even though, I do understand, I don't want to hear about how Milton Doyle is perhaps a top 15 player in the country, etc.

[Rocky Mountain Shock]

I agree. The original concept of the Bracket Busters was genius. They ruined it when they let everybody and their little brother start playing in it.

ESPN--or somebody--would do well to reintroduce it as a showcase of the best 10-20 programs outside the Power 5.

[Wild Heiny]

Bilas is great but Vitale has become a caricature of himself. I really want to play on FOX so Gus Johnson can do PBP for one of our games. "Frankamp with the three! PURE!"

Bilas is great if you like to listen to 2 hours of him complaining about the NCAA or the officiating. I used to like Bilas, but he is much better in the studio in small doses than as an announcer.