lor@ucla-cs.UUCP (02/21/85)
The NCAA is considering rule changes to shorten the game. Currently most of the games run over two hours and it looks like eternity for the fans in the last minute. But what's wrong with a long basketball game? If football can be a 3 hr game, why can't basketball? A < 3 hr football game is considered good, why isn't a basketball game which is much shorter? Even with the last minute of a college basketball game lasts forever, the game never goes more than 2 hours and 30 minutes (excluding overtimes). If you think the game is too long, you may forget the first half. Just start watching the game at the second half, you still have more than an hour of basketball. If the game really has to be cut short, why don't we have a 30 minute game? With 10 minute less of playing time, the game would certainly run less than two hours. You know, if the game eliminates the last minute foul-shooting contest, Dean Smith would not have won so many games, and Jim Valvano would not have stolen the NCAA title in 1983. -- Eddy Lor ...!ucbvax!ucla-cs!lor lor@ucla-locus.arpa
leads@burl.UUCP (leads) (03/01/85)
> You know, if the game eliminates the last minute foul-shooting > contest, Dean Smith would not have won so many games, > and Jim Valvano would not have stolen the NCAA title in 1983. > > -- > > Eddy Lor > ...!ucbvax!ucla-cs!lor > lor@ucla-locus.arpa Yeah, and if Napoleon would have had tanks we all would be speaking French. You can "what if" all you want but you can't change the fact that NCSU was the best team for five weeks straight two years ago. They just might do it again this year. I love a good underdog. Dave "HE HAD THE NERVE AND HE HAD THE BLOOD AND THERE NEVER WAS A HORSE LIKE THE TENNESSEE STUD"