We are now officially into April, and there is one weekend left in the NCAA's annual smorgasbord of college basketball goodness that fans have come to know and love as March Madness. There have been as many close games as anyone can remember in a single tournament, as well as the usual slew of stunning upsets and exciting stories.
Now, entering the Final Four, there are a crop of heavyweights vying for the title, and it looks like it should be a great weekend of basketball. But according to ASAP Sports, at least one college basketball heavyweight is not impressed by the tournament or the game as a whole.
Geno Auriemma is the best coach in women's college basketball (some would argue in college basketball period), and he leads a dominant UConn squad deep into the tournament every year. He also recently explained his thoughts about the men's game, and suffice it to say, he is not impressed.
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Here is what Auriemma had to say:
"You look at the interest paid on the NCAA tournament. I don't know that it's as immensely popular during the regular season as it used to be, but obviously the tournament is just at another world when it comes to that. Having said that, I think the game is a joke. It really is. I don't coach it. I don't play it, so I don't understand all the ins and outs of it. But as a spectator, forget that I'm a coach, as a spectator, watching it, it's a joke. There's only like ten teams, you know, out of 25, that actually play the kind of game of basketball that you'd like to watch. Every coach will tell you that there's 90 million reasons for it.
"And the bottom line is that nobody can score, and they'll tell you it's because of great defense, great scouting, a lot of team work, nonsense, nonsense. College men's basketball is so far behind the times it's unbelievable. I mean women's basketball is behind the times. Men's basketball is even further behind the times. Every other major sport in the world has taken steps to help people be better on the offensive end of the floor. They've moved in the fences in baseball, they lowered the mound. They made the strike zone so you need a straw to put through it. And in the NFL you touch a guy it's a penalty. You hit the quarterback, you're out for life. You know, in the NBA, you touch somebody in the perimeter, you whack guys like they used to do when scores were 90 to 75, they changed the rules.
"This is entertainment we're talking about. People have to decide, do I want to play 25 bucks, 30 bucks to go see a college scrum where everybody misses six out of every ten shots they take, or do I want to go to a movie? We're fighting for the entertainment dollar, here, and I have to tell you it's not entertainment from a fan's standpoint. So that's just‑‑ I'm talking as a fan, not as Geno, Auriemma, the basketball coach."
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