Funny comment by ESPN reporter on All College

[OUFtball]

"It looks like 22 people went to the All College to watch OSU vs LA Tech"

 

[thegreyghost]

Tournament has been on life support for about 5-7 years, someone needs to pull the plug

 

[sybarite]

Too bad. I remember when Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, and Elgin Baylor played in OKC.

 

[Big Old Booger]

Too bad. I remember when Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, and Elgin Baylor played in OKC.

I remember when Wayman Tisdale and Karl Malone played in it.

 

[ByronHoustonsSweatyPalms]

I remember when my sock name played in it.


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[AdaSooner]

I remember when Wayman Tisdale and Karl Malone played in it.

Me, too. My wife and I were there for that game. It's a shame the All-College has fallen so far in the last few years.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Yeah the All College has pretty much sucked for a while.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Tulsa needs to host a college basketball weekend with OU, OSU, TU, ORU and Arkansas.

Focus the opponents on strong regional programs that travel well... Teams like Memphis, Wichita State, Creighton, etc.

Have ESPN set up the games.... A double header on Friday night and then three on Saturday.

 

[Max Power]

Yeah the All College has pretty much sucked for a while.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Tulsa needs to host a college basketball weekend with OU, OSU, TU, ORU and Arkansas.

Focus the opponents on strong regional programs that travel well... Teams like Memphis, Wichita State, Creighton, etc.

Have ESPN set up the games.... A double header on Friday night and then three on Saturday.

Nota bad idea at all, you could throw nebraska and say new mexico in there to get to 10 teams, and the matchups rotate every year

 

[usedtobe1]

I remember when Wayman Tisdale and Karl Malone played in it.

I was at that game with my oldest son. After the game he wanted Wayman's autograph in the worst way but we couldn't even get close because Wayman was mobbed by autograph seekers. I remember seeing Karl Malone and another La Tech player sitting by themselves in the stands just watching the post-game festivities, and told my son to go get their autograph. Not a bad consolation.

Another star I remember watching at the All-College was Pistol Pete Maravich. I think that's when they played at the Fairgrounds.

 

[MisterF]

Let's see recruit.."come play with us ..we go to a beach tourney every year.

OR


Come play with us, we go to OKC every year.

Easy.....kill the all college

 

[Northbase]

Me, too. My wife and I were there for that game. It's a shame the All-College has fallen so far in the last few years.

I was there also. Quite a show that night.

 

[Dignon003]

Let's see recruit.."come play with us ..we go to a beach tourney every year.

OR


Come play with us, we go to OKC every year.

Easy.....kill the all college

Or you can do what OU and OSU have been doing for years now and do both. Not that anyone should have to.

 

[CoachTalk]

Let's see recruit.."come play with us ..we go to a beach tourney every year.

OR

Come play with us, we go to OKC every year.

Easy.....kill the all college

Kill it or GET... Duke, Kentucky, UNC vs OU and OSU back to back nights..

 

[oSuJeff97]

Let's see recruit.."come play with us ..we go to a beach tourney every year.

OR


Come play with us, we go to OKC every year.

Easy.....kill the all college

What I don't get is why it has to be classified as a "tournament."

Can't it just be considered a single neutral-site game for each team set up for TV, and you could have OSU and OU return the games the next year at another neutral site?

Seems like that's what OSU did several years ago with Pitt, Gonzaga and Tennessee. We played all three the following year at "neutral" sites in those schools' back yards.

How can it be so hard to just do that again against other good programs?

 

[snydrosooner]

What I don't get is why it has to be classified as a "tournament."

Can't it just be considered a single neutral-site game for each team set up for TV, and you could have OSU and OU return the games the next year at another neutral site?

Seems like that's what OSU did several years ago with Pitt, Gonzaga and Tennessee. We played all three the following year at "neutral" sites in those schools' back yards.

How can it be so hard to just do that again against other good programs?

Its what OU is doing this year with A&M

 

[garyeb2]

What I don't get is why it has to be classified as a "tournament."

Can't it just be considered a single neutral-site game for each team set up for TV, and you could have OSU and OU return the games the next year at another neutral site?

Seems like that's what OSU did several years ago with Pitt, Gonzaga and Tennessee. We played all three the following year at "neutral" sites in those schools' back yards.

How can it be so hard to just do that again against other good programs?

The NCAA allows teams 28 regular season games. Up to 4 additional tournament games are allowed. The All College is an extra game for those that participate.

 

[oSuJeff97]

The NCAA allows teams 28 regular season games. Up to 4 additional tournament games are allowed. The All College is an extra game for those that participate.

Right.

But from what I understand, what has killed the All College is that it is a "tournament" for the purposes of how the NCAA counts games and there are so many more early season tournaments, right?

Like there used to be only Maui and Alaska... now there's the Old Spice in Orlando, the one in Anaheim, the one in San Juan, the Battle for Atlantis, etc.

So if my assumption is correct (it may not be) and the All-College is more or less "competing" with these exotic locations for "tournament" games, why can't they just count as another non-conference game?

 

[garyeb2]

Right.

But from what I understand, what has killed the All College is that it is a "tournament" for the purposes of how the NCAA counts games and there are so many more early season tournaments, right?

Like there used to be only Maui and Alaska... now there's the Old Spice in Orlando, the one in Anaheim, the one in San Juan, the Battle for Atlantis, etc.

So if my assumption is correct (it may not be) and the All-College is more or less "competing" with these exotic locations for "tournament" games, why can't they just count as another non-conference game?

Because the All College is designated as a tournament game, it allows the participants to play the 28 allowed games plus one more.

 

[SilliSooner]

Hate to see the All-College die.
I've seen tons of games there, even won a fancy watch because my program had a lucky number.

I used to watch the games at the Civic Center, sometimes sitting below the court watching at knee level and saw Russell, KC Jones, Frank Selvy, Hub Reed, Larry Farmer, Elgin Baylor. I even remember a tournament where Cornell Green led Utah State to the finals. He was a fantastic player who went on to be a Dallas Cowboy safety.

The tournament then moved to the Fairgrounds and later to the Myriad where the Billy and Kelvin OU teams dominated. I'm thinking Pete Maravich came in during that time.

It's a shame it's dying considering OKC has a lot more to offer in terms of sites, entertainment and hotels than when it was drawing the big name players.

 

[NMSooner'80]

It was also a big deal, to my friends and me at least, when OU won the '79 All-College in a true tournament format. Unfortunately, that wasn't a vintage OU season (we were the defending Big 8 champs but slumped to 15-12, including some bizarre last-second losses in league play). But OU did play well in the All-College.

My dad and I also got to see OU beat VCU when Blake Griffin was still on the team. He can't walk too well anymore, and we had a walk to make just to get to our seats.