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Can anyone give me a good reason why our Conference Tournament is held in a city with no ties to our conference? Not to mention it is one of the most difficult cities to get to by car or plane. That gym is empty every damn year and makes our conference look stupid on TV. I need some reasons please.
 
I've said since they changed the format from the regular season champ hosting to a neutral site, that it is stupid for a 1-bid league like the Big Sky to do it this way. Other than a banner, the season champs get nothing but a #1 seed. I would think the conference would want to send their best to the big tourney so that maybe an upset could occur. I get it for the big conferences that get all the at-large bids, but it doesn't make sense to me for lowly conferences like ours. Is it really financially beneficial to do it like this? It diminishes the regular season imo.
 
One thing I'd venture as a guess as well - its possible some schools that win the regular season title don't have the staffing / infrastructure to host a multi-day tourney. UM, MSU, UI, Weber, and NAU are probably fine - the rest is a toss up. Could be some instances of complaints from conference programs that they can't cover it.

I know, not Montana's issue per se, but I wonder if that's something the conference considered with the neutral site move.

I think I'd also seen somewhere that virtually every conference now has neutral site tournaments so it only made sense to follow suit.
 
Big Sage said:
I think the conference was sick of us hosting!
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I think the local administrations didn't want the extra work so they punted to this vanilla empty arena idea. If a certain school doesn't have the facilities then we should have a set rotation of conference schools that would host if the qualifier didn't want to host. More people is ALWAY a better thing than an empty arena in Timbuktu.
 
Those days are over. Earlier this week the ASUN announced that starting next year they will be moving their tournament to a neutral site as well. Everyone does it, it's a money maker for the conference, it's an experience for the teams, and logistically it's way easier for everyone when they know where they're going ahead of time.
 
BWahlberg said:
One thing I'd venture as a guess as well - its possible some schools that win the regular season title don't have the staffing / infrastructure to host a multi-day tourney. UM, MSU, UI, Weber, and NAU are probably fine - the rest is a toss up. Could be some instances of complaints from conference programs that they can't cover it.

I know, not Montana's issue per se, but I wonder if that's something the conference considered with the neutral site move.

I think I'd also seen somewhere that virtually every conference now has neutral site tournaments so it only made sense to follow suit.
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For the Montana schools at least, the neutral site approach prevents any scheduling conflicts between the BSC tournament and high school state tournament games scheduled at Dahlberg and the Brick.
 
Once I learned on Colters program that Boise charges Big Sky nothing for hosting at the facility, Boise made sense to me. And makes sense to send all the teams so Boise can recoup that money in lodging more teams and fans. Elevation 2700 seems fair too in terms of evening out conditioning advantages. I don’t like taking on the potato as identity for the tournament nor the Starch madness theme. That was a bridge too far.
 
GrizCC1979 said:
Once I learned on Colters program that Boise charges Big Sky nothing for hosting at the facility, Boise made sense to me. And makes sense to send all the teams so Boise can recoup that money in lodging more teams and fans. Elevation 2700 seems fair too in terms of evening out conditioning advantages. I don’t like taking on the potato as identity for the tournament nor the Starch madness theme. That was a bridge too far.
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You don't like taters?

Actually, I totally agree ... a silly, and really, really dumb idea.
 
A lot of discussion for neutral site started when Sac almost won the conference and the conference panicked thinking about Sac Hosting in their ymca gym.
Also PSU would be a nightmare!
 
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