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Steve McManus is full of crap! No offense...

On Friday's episode of Chris Russo's Sirius XM show Mad Dog Unleashed, CBS Sports chairman Steve McManus said the following:

"From a television standpoint, you really root for the big teams. Last night's Kentucky outcome was not good for us and not good for TBS at all. Kentucky being the blue bloods that they are, and having the television draw that they have, that really hurt us. Kansas State winning - I have nothing against Kansas State as a school or a team - but that really hurt us."

He added:

"It's [Loyola-Chicago] a great story, I think Sister Jean is terrific, but to have an upstart like that go this far is not a disaster obviously, but not the bets of all scenarios for us."

I'm sorry, but this is BS. Why does he think the NCAA Tournament is nicknamed March Madness? Because it's good for the predictable to always occur? I don't think so. The movies about college basketball that come out of Hollywood, do they tend to revolve around the two top seeds making the national championship game? Again, no. Let's be honest, the quality of play is inferior in college basketball than in the NBA, as well as the officiating. Also, with the one-and-done format, the odds of craziness ensuing are far greater than in the NBA and its best-of-5/7 series'. Half the fun of the NCAA Tournament is seeing this craziness unfold before our very eyes. It's why we fill out brackets, why we choose sleepers, why we take that first Thursday and Friday off work. Sure, it's fun to watch an evenly matched game between two "blue bloods," but nothing can match the joy and excitement of seeing 16-seed UMBC beat 1-seed Virginia; of 11-seed Loyola-Chicago making it to the Final Four; of an overmatched team beating all odds and coming up victorious when they were given no shot at doing so. While two one-seeds like Villanova and Kansas matching up in the Final Four may provide good temporary ratings, a team like 11-seed Loyola-Chicago making it to the Final Four provides a lifetime of memories.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/cbs-sports-chairman-sean-mcmanus-big-upsets-hurt-ratings-article-1.3893971
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