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From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Shot Clocks
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Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 02:06:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 31 02:06:53 1984
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Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
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Here's a few tips to speed up the game of college bastball:

	Have a 30 second shot clock
	Have a far out 3 point line
	Disallow zone defense (or maybe sort of disallow it)
	Give the players amphetamines or cocaine before the
		game to get them really pumped up
	Pay the players for each point they get (incentives) and
		even for showing up for the game
	Don't require the players to maintain academic standards
		(even better no classes, except basketball 101,
		free throws 208, and slam dunk 264)

No, on second thought, sounds like the NBA.  I really worry about
all these attempts to take a popular sport like NCAA Basketball
(which has TV coverage on CBS, NBC, USA, ESPN, and WTBS, just to
name the major ones) and turn it into a less popular sport like the
NBA (which gets spotty coverage on CBS--playoff games delayed until
11:30--, and one of the cable (ESPN or USA) picks up a game or
two).  If I were the NBA, I would look seriously at the NCAA to
figure out how they draw their fans.  It's because the games are
more fun to watch.  Maybe it's the unpredicability, maybe its
watching various coaching strategies, bit even the little guy
can win.  You just have to remeber N.C.State and there coach
Jim Valvano who came from nowhere last year to win the ACC tourney
and the NCAA tourney right in a row.  (they didn't even make it this
year) The coach was the real factor there, knowing when to have his
team stall, when to go for it, when to foul to the other team, and
which player to foul.  It was only this that allowed them to defeat
the powerhouses they played.  Please don't change the college rules.