Written by Joseph Nardone at Bloguin
College basketball has always been a different sport than its other mainstream counterparts.
It doesn’t have that natural audience tuning in which football does. Major League Baseball has a history unlike others, but folks continue to tune in during its lengthy regular season, while shooty hoops only sees large audiences during March Madness. Nor is college basketball even remotely similar to the NBA, which is the more popular brand of roundball.
By no means is it a niche sport, but it is far from perfect and is the least popular of the major sporting leagues in college and the pros (unless you include college baseball, but how many people would do that?). For that reason, among others, lovers of the sport are overprotective of it and everyone involved.
It is what it is. College basketball isn’t perfect. It never will be.
I have made this point numerous times: College Basketball can’t be “fixed” the way many want it to be, because the issue within it is the lack of talent that’s already spread too thin over the 300-plus Division I programs. It is unrealistic to expect quality play, efficient offense, and entertaining hoops on the regular. The anomaly is when good hoops unfolds — not when it doesn’t.
However, that issue gets compounded because of another problem, one which is actually fixable. It’s a problem which happens to be highlighted by the latest scandal of escorts, strippers, Rick Pitino, and everything else involved in the tangled mess at Louisville.
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