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Dick Harmon: Post-game brawl mars MWC title
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Let the regular champion host the semi's through the championship game, get out of Las Vegas.
Continuing to hold the MWC tournament in Vegas is further proof that the MWC "leadership" as its priorities completely screwed up. Money apparently comes before everything else.
Has the MWC made a single smart decision in the past five years? The past ten years? It's got to be the worst-run mid-major conference in the country.
Once again, UNLV fans showed the level of their class.
Get real, Hair Thompson. Either stop having a conference tournament, or make fairness to all teams your number 1 priority.
Oh and about the UNLV fans...PLEASE don't throw all of us in the lot with the jerks that cause problems! Most of us are there to root on OUR team without causing trouble. Remember that BYU stormed the field in the Las Vegas bowl. So please don't make it out to be only us.
Enough with my ranting...good luck in the NCAA's and represent the MWC!
This is crazy. I doubt there is another post season tournament in the country that gives one team a home court for years in a row.
I was at the game and was also disappointed by the actions of the fans after the game. There are too many people who think it makes them a part of the team by being on the floor when it really makes them look like idiots. However, this scene was very reminiscent of BYU fans on the Field at Sam Boyd Stadium after the last two Las Vegas bowls. To call the situation chaotic is an overstatement and reeks of sour grapes. What happened at the Thomas and Mack Center occurred at a dozen other arenas this week.
The root of the problem was the MWC decision to try and block fans from entering the court and preparing by removing rows of seats and blocking access. This was done after BYU fans complained about last years after game celebration. I am in no way excusing the actions of the fans, but the ugly actions would not have occurred had security personnell not physically responded to the immature fans trying to get their faces seen on the court.
MWC - get a spine! Do something right.
This is just sad.
Ironically while watching the game on Versus here in SAcramento, the lights went out just after the guy won $66,000 for shoting 4 free throws baskets in halftime. Power was restored a couple hours later.
UNLV is not all bad but many of there fans are, and always be hoodlums. In a town of hoodlums. Personal I will never attend a game in Las Vegas again after this mess.
MWC officials are a joke. Get real hold the tounery in Las Vegas only if UNLV ars the champions.
1-The mtn...need I say more
2-The league's "top" bowl, the Las Vegas Bowl, has to take the 5th place team from the Pac-10...who approved that one?
3-Even with the conference's so-called "partners" at CSTV and Versus, the conference still can't figure out how to get the conference's premiere (and probably only) rivalry BYU-Utah basketball game on anything other than the mtn. Why not?
4-Calling the conference's tournament in March hosted by UNLV anything other than the "Spring UNLV Invitational" is an insult to everyone's intelligence...who decided to give home court advantage to UNLV every year? Are there no other b-ball courts in Vegas? Is there no other way to approach this?
And that's just off the top of my head. Yet, with all of these debacles, why does "Commissioner" Thompson still have a job?
If you look at his background, he came from a small conference (the Sunbelt I think), and he thinks small. He has ZERO vision. The university presidents should hire a bright, up and coming executive from one of the major conferences and get rid of the small thinking Thompson.
The game should be played in SLC at the Energy Solutions arena where neither of the TWO main universities close to the area play their home games. If that is not acceptable then take the tournament to Southern California (to a nuetral site from SDSU). Why is this so hard to understand? UNLV has NEVER shown any class over their history and they play their games in that arena. Is it that hard to figure out?
MWC leadership has once again proven their poor judgement and weak leadership. Why does BYU & Utah put up with it? It is hard to fathom.
Cougs, I hope you learned that at tournament time you need to play a full 40 minutes or one and done.
The MWC(WAC) is no where near it's former power. When BYU, Utah, New Mexico, UTEP, Wyoming were all much better than now.
BYU, make it to a sweet 15 and I'll take you seriously. Until then you're a nobody from a lousy conference.
On another note, did anybody else find the television coverage atrocious? First, the game was shown on Versus only, while the mtn. replayed the Air Force boxing championship for the umpteenth time. Second, the commentators were absolutely painful to listen to, and disrespectful to both teams. Finally, the camera work was horrendous. I don't think I've ever seen so many plays missed for pointless, slow-motion replays.
I'm really getting sick of the MWC. I'm thinking of taking my allegiance elsewhere.
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UNLV fans are hoodlums. And they'll keep winning the tourney as long as it's played at the Thomas & Mack.
Now BYU has ammunition to just say no next year.
But the athletic officials won't have the guts to pull out.