The National Invitational Tournament, also known as either the "Not In Tournament" or what I like to call the "Not Important Tournament," is a complete joke. Most of us know that the NCAA Tournament is the real deal and the NIT is at least five steps down from being the "real deal." It's like the elementary kids that cannot play football after school with the middle school kids. The NIT is nothing but a pathetic tournament with sub-par teams that do not deserve another chance. Seriously, if you do not make the field of 65, then you should not deserve a chance to end your season on the so-called "good note," or "save your job" if you are a coach.
The tournament that they call the NIT is for the leftovers. Everyone knows the feelings when their mother says "you can eat leftovers for dinner tonight." Your gut tells you "ah man, I mine as well starve." The word "leftover" is nothing but negative and that is what the NIT is, a negative.
The tournament is for senior players who need that one last opportunity for a shot to strut there stuff to NBA scouts and win a game or two more. Who really cares? Hell, half of the coliseums are not even filled up. Kentucky had to play in their old gym because the Kentucky Boy's State Basketball Tournament was played in Rupp Arena. The tournament is so irrelevant that high school basketball has dibs over it. Give me a break would you? This tournament is to save the jobs of coaches and give another television contract to someone.
If anyone opposes, I would love to here your argument. The NIT is so unnecessary I do not know how someone even stays connected with it. I rather be invited to the tournament down from the NIT, the (CBI) College Basketball Invitational. What a joke the NIT is. It makes me feel like I am watching women's regular season basketball. The tournament does not even have a tournament feel. That's sad. The teams that are in this "NIT" do not belong anywhere but home. The coaches should be recruiting and players should be getting ready for summer practices. Instead, teams like New Mexico will travel 2,000 miles to the east coast and prove nothing.
Even if you win the tournament, do you really think people care? Oh boy, we get to hang a banner. Yeah, how sad is that... hanging a banner that says "We aren't important."
For those who think I am arrogant to say this just watch one of these games. Notre Dame still looks awful, lethal programs such as Kentucky can barely play on the same level as UNLV, and St Mary's was crying that they did not get into the tournament and they ended up being a two seed in the garbage NIT.
I prove my point. Case closed.
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