Whether they see it as a burden or not does not mean they are just going to take it on for us out of the kindness and generosity of there own hearts when there’s nothing really in it for them except more work. They don’t owe us anything. Compensating them for the favor and the extra work with a game is more than fair especially considering we’re trying to get out of hosting to get in position to have a considerable advantage that would benefit us greatly. Purdue is giving IU Indy an exhibition game this upcoming season along with playing Horizon League member, Oakland, having played another Horizon League member, Northern Kentucky, this past season. Those aren’t coincidences.
In the future, this should be negotiated by the B12 conference with partnerships with those other conferences HQ’d in Dallas to provide host institutions for venues in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma and in turn B12 members will schedule games for members of the conferences that partner with us. There are too many good basketball schools in Texas and in the B12 to not have a sub-regional in either, TX, LA or OK each year and a Regional every few years.
But I don’t think this would be UH going to them directly and asking them. I think the NCAA would go to these schools and ask them. At that point, it has nothing to do with UH. lol Anyways, I guess this doesn’t even matter.
We’re the current host. If we’re trying to wiggle out of it then we gotta find our own replacement for us that’s willing to do it. The NCAA ain’t going to do that for us. In the article it states that the AD will start talking to other schools to be our substitute once he hears back officially from the NCAA.
So, throughout the Sampson era, has playing out of state guaranteed success? The tournament is a lot of just “the ball bouncing their way”, with just six single elimination games. I think playing at home for a chance to go to the final four is still the more favorable option here.
You don’t have to be a fan if you don’t want to be. Nobody is holding you hostage here. You’re free to leave and root for another team that doesn’t “choke” or whatever.
