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Topic: 2018 BTN Bus Tour

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ELA

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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2018, 01:49:25 PM »
I like the concept.  It's akin to our discussing prospects around here in effect, just on TV, which otherwise would be showing .... what?


Classic games that are more than 2 years old?  Like they did when the network first launched.

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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2018, 08:18:33 PM »
This is the kind of thing I see as standard. It's not all roses. And informal rankings arise. The bus tour is not all fluff:

https://mobile.twitter.com/gerrydinardo/status/1028006366697402369

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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #16 on: August 13, 2018, 08:05:25 AM »
This is the kind of thing I see as standard. It's not all roses. And informal rankings arise. The bus tour is not all fluff:

https://mobile.twitter.com/gerrydinardo/status/1028006366697402369

The full quote ended with "...but would obviously be 1st in any non Big Ten division though."
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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #17 on: August 13, 2018, 08:18:29 AM »
Riveting stuff from Nards.
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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2018, 10:04:43 AM »
Ha - Eye rolls. You guys claimed that nothing unpositive (or that smelled like a ranking) ever happened on the bus tour, which wasn't true and easy to disprove. I never promised that the bus tour was awesome, just that it isn't pure fluff, and so certain good info (even if sparse) can be gleaned about how the teams look relative to one another. That was never a big or risky claim ... one of the reasons I found it so strange that you were disagreeing so absolutely.

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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2018, 10:09:20 AM »
Assuming they got to 5th by passing Indiana, when they were in Bloomington did they point out that they were concerned that the Hoosiers had dropped to 6th in talent within the division?

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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2018, 10:24:08 AM »
I wasn't paying attention to know. And from recollection, I don't think you were either. Also unclear why it matters (well, this conversation doesn't matter period, but I meant that I don't understand why it's germane). 

Someone was ranked mediocrely or poorly (depends on perspective) and that's a thing I said the bus tour does. Which was a silly thing for people who don't follow the tour to guarantee never happens.

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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #21 on: August 13, 2018, 10:46:55 AM »
Obviously the 14 way tie for first is a joke.  No, they don't pick them all to go undefeated.  But they refuse to paint any of them in a negative light.  I read that Tweet as, look, Maryland is up to 5th in the East!  I'm fine with it, it's football talk, there's no harm in it.  But when we criticize ESPN/SECN for glowing at all times about the SEC, I'm going to be willing to acknowledge that BTN does the exact same thing.

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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #22 on: August 13, 2018, 10:50:06 AM »
All 14 teams have a chance to make some noise this year!!
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Re: 2018 BTN Bus Tour
« Reply #23 on: August 14, 2018, 03:12:47 PM »
BTN will soften the negatives... in general.    I don't think it is limited to the Bus tour

 

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