So after having to hear about...

[wbrpanther]

every thing the media hog Joe lunardi has had to say over the past 4 days here is what I take out of it.
According to him the Pitt- Syracuse game was a play in game meaning both were precariously close to the edge and the loser was going over. Then every 4 hours or so he was releasing brackets that had Pitt in then out then in the play in game while having Cuse out then in then in the play in game. Turns out they both got 10 seeds which go to teams that are not bubble teams. I think Lunardi has to reign it in a bit and stop with the 4 times a day updates and releasing next years brackets a week after this years tournament is over. his credibility is dropping faster and faster every year.

And while I am at it. how did Syracuse come out of this on the same seed line as Pitt, who had a better record and beat them 3 times. I can see them making it but the 10 seed surprised me very much. this tells me that even after the loss to Pitt they were never really in any danger.

 

[KiwiJeff]

every thing the media hog Joe lunardi has had to say over the past 4 days here is what I take out of it.
According to him the Pitt- Syracuse game was a play in game meaning both were precariously close to the edge and the loser was going over. Then every 4 hours or so he was releasing brackets that had Pitt in then out then in the play in game while having Cuse out then in then in the play in game. Turns out they both got 10 seeds which go to teams that are not bubble teams. I think Lunardi has to reign it in a bit and stop with the 4 times a day updates and releasing next years brackets a week after this years tournament is over. his credibility is dropping faster and faster every year.

And while I am at it. how did Syracuse come out of this on the same seed line as Pitt, who had a better record and beat them 3 times. I can see them making it but the 10 seed surprised me very much. this tells me that even after the loss to Pitt they were never really in any danger.

he is a goose.

 

[Atch]

every thing the media hog Joe lunardi has had to say over the past 4 days here is what I take out of it.
According to him the Pitt- Syracuse game was a play in game meaning both were precariously close to the edge and the loser was going over. Then every 4 hours or so he was releasing brackets that had Pitt in then out then in the play in game while having Cuse out then in then in the play in game. Turns out they both got 10 seeds which go to teams that are not bubble teams. I think Lunardi has to reign it in a bit and stop with the 4 times a day updates and releasing next years brackets a week after this years tournament is over. his credibility is dropping faster and faster every year.

And while I am at it. how did Syracuse come out of this on the same seed line as Pitt, who had a better record and beat them 3 times. I can see them making it but the 10 seed surprised me very much. this tells me that even after the loss to Pitt they were never really in any danger.

What does this moron do the rest of the year?

 

[Fk_Pitt]

We talk about it Ad nauseam. As much as I hate to say it, he did his job.

 

[Pittnerski]

Professor at St Joes and radio personality in Philly

 

[Fk_Pitt]

How did his final bracket turn out?

 

[PittMan 72]

every thing the media hog Joe lunardi has had to say over the past 4 days here is what I take out of it.
According to him the Pitt- Syracuse game was a play in game meaning both were precariously close to the edge and the loser was going over. Then every 4 hours or so he was releasing brackets that had Pitt in then out then in the play in game while having Cuse out then in then in the play in game. Turns out they both got 10 seeds which go to teams that are not bubble teams. I think Lunardi has to reign it in a bit and stop with the 4 times a day updates and releasing next years brackets a week after this years tournament is over. his credibility is dropping faster and faster every year.

And while I am at it. how did Syracuse come out of this on the same seed line as Pitt, who had a better record and beat them 3 times. I can see them making it but the 10 seed surprised me very much. this tells me that even after the loss to Pitt they were never really in any danger.

Lunardi = self-promoter/attention whore. Can't blame him; it's his way of making a damn good living for what amounts to very little other than what some regular Joe that watches a lot of college hoops could do. If people would ignore him, he'd be rendered meaningless and get dumped. He's the Mel Kiper of college hoops. I take all of this bracketology stuff with a huge grain of salt. Most reasonable people who follow college hoops relatively closely can reason this stuff out almost as well as he can. Several posters on this board have demonstrated that,

Also seems as though sometimes too many people get spooked by the alarmists and antagonists that post on message boards like this one. "Ooh, things look bad for Pitt because so-and-so won". "Ooh, Pitt is headed to Dayton for a play-in game." Folks need to use their own common sense and reasoning. Not fall for the crap spewed out by others. Think Pitt got seeded pretty accurately. Their draw is reasonable, too.

 

[NTOP]

every thing the media hog Joe lunardi has had to say over the past 4 days here is what I take out of it.
According to him the Pitt- Syracuse game was a play in game meaning both were precariously close to the edge and the loser was going over. Then every 4 hours or so he was releasing brackets that had Pitt in then out then in the play in game while having Cuse out then in then in the play in game. Turns out they both got 10 seeds which go to teams that are not bubble teams. I think Lunardi has to reign it in a bit and stop with the 4 times a day updates and releasing next years brackets a week after this years tournament is over. his credibility is dropping faster and faster every year.

And while I am at it. how did Syracuse come out of this on the same seed line as Pitt, who had a better record and beat them 3 times. I can see them making it but the 10 seed surprised me very much. this tells me that even after the loss to Pitt they were never really in any danger.

My Mother had a pet "nickname" for people like him.....sappy, silly grin, nothing of consequence to say, self-important blowhards....she referred to them as "Smacked Fannies". That's as close to swearing as she got. The wife & I apply that fairly regularly to folks we meet or see on TV. The Donald, e.g.

 

[bobfree]

Good god guys he's paid to do something he didn't do anything wrong. Everyone has to hate everything.

 

[wbrpanther]

Good god guys he's paid to do something he didn't do anything wrong. Everyone has to hate everything.

C'mon bobfree. Restructuring your bracket every time a game is concluded isn't what a bracketologist is paid to do. During tournament week I can maybe see putting a new bracket out every day, but even that is over kill.

Of course if there wasn't a new post on the lair every time Lunardi passed gas It wouldn't have bothered me so much.

 

[wbrpanther]

Lunardi = self-promoter/attention whore. Can't blame him; it's his way of making a damn good living for what amounts to very little other than what some regular Joe that watches a lot of college hoops could do. If people would ignore him, he'd be rendered meaningless and get dumped. He's the Mel Kiper of college hoops. I take all of this bracketology stuff with a huge grain of salt. Most reasonable people who follow college hoops relatively closely can reason this stuff out almost as well as he can. Several posters on this board have demonstrated that,

Also seems as though sometimes too many people get spooked by the alarmists and antagonists that post on message boards like this one. "Ooh, things look bad for Pitt because so-and-so won". "Ooh, Pitt is headed to Dayton for a play-in game." Folks need to use their own common sense and reasoning. Not fall for the crap spewed out by others. Think Pitt got seeded pretty accurately. Their draw is reasonable, too.

Agree, Pitt got a very reasonable draw. Now I want someone to explain how a team that Pitt beat 3 times and probably shouldn't even be in got the same draw in another region.

 

[bobfree]

C'mon bobfree. Restructuring your bracket every time a game is concluded isn't what a bracketologist is paid to do. During tournament week I can maybe see putting a new bracket out every day, but even that is over kill.

Of course if there wasn't a new post on the lair every time Lunardi passed gas It wouldn't have bothered me so much.

It's what he is paid to do. ESPN is his boss not you.

I just don't get all the angst, but no biggie

 

[UPitt '89]

C'mon bobfree. Restructuring your bracket every time a game is concluded isn't what a bracketologist is paid to do. During tournament week I can maybe see putting a new bracket out every day, but even that is over kill.

Of course if there wasn't a new post on the lair every time Lunardi passed gas It wouldn't have bothered me so much.

Sometimes he restructured his bracket multiple times between any games being concluded.

At midnight the one night, his update had Pitt as "last four in". At 10am, with no games being played in the interim, he had Pitt as "last four byes". Moved them up 6 slots without a single game being played.

 

[PittMan 72]

Agree, Pitt got a very reasonable draw. Now I want someone to explain how a team that Pitt beat 3 times and probably shouldn't even be in got the same draw in another region.

Lots of negotiating; that's how. As I know you know, the Trny. selection process is far from cut and dried. A whole bunch of politicking, haggling and markers getting called in.

Think especially when it comes down to the final at-large bids, the word "subjective" does not even begin to describe what likely takes place. Would love to be a fly on the wall in some of the meetings and to know exactly who are involved as advocates for which teams and conferences in the various side-bar meetings that take place; or to be able to listen in on some of the phone conversations. College hoops version of the lobbying system.

 

[NTOP]

It's what he is paid to do. ESPN is his boss not you.

I just don't get all the angst, but no biggie

Isn't the REAL issue that people were hanging on his every word?? Not worth the time. If ESPN is paying the guy, it's their problem.....but some people act like he puts his brackets on stone tablets.

 

[raleighpanther]

Well, Lunardi has an article today talking about how the committee got it wrong. That tells me that he, Lunardi, got it wrong, because he is predicting who the committee will and won't put in. So rather than admitting that he misread the committee this year, he attacks and says THEY got it wrong.

Bobfree, he is just doing his job as you say (nobody's getting hurt), but it is pathetic the way he is endlessly promoted as an expert, when any of us could do his job as well as he does if we put in as much (or even half as much) time into it as he does.

Don't tell me how many he got right 5 minutes before the field was announced, what is his prediction success rate on his projections of 4 weeks ago? If he came close with that projection, I'll throw him some cred, but anyone should be able to get most of the field right after every game has been played.

 

[UPitt129]

Isn't the REAL issue that people were hanging on his every word?? Not worth the time. If ESPN is paying the guy, it's their problem.....but some people act like he puts his brackets on stone tablets.

Yep. It was kind of fun to break down his brackets and show how off they were in comparison to what was reality when looking at pitt.

There was a certain group on here that took him as gospel, probably though because it agreed with their constant negative agenda.