So no fans... hows it impact the games?

[rmilia1]

My first 2 thoughts were

1. Upsets are going to be far less likely. We all know how it works. Little Directional State U is close to an upset and the fans of every team there become huge DSU fans

Without that advsntage i think upsets will be far more rare.

2. I think it helps offense focused teams. Games will inherently take on more of a pickup game feel. That generally means faster pace and more offense

Your thoughts?

 

[uncfan103]

My first 2 thoughts were

1. Upsets are going to be far less likely. We all know how it works. Little Directional State U is close to an upset and the fans of every team there become huge DSU fans

Without that advsntage i think upsets will be far more rare.

2. I think it helps offense focused teams. Games will inherently take on more of a pickup game feel. That generally means faster pace and more offense

Your thoughts?

or does it favor the teams from the Maac that are used to playing games without fans??

 

[Win TWINS!!!]

My first 2 thoughts were

1. Upsets are going to be far less likely. We all know how it works. Little Directional State U is close to an upset and the fans of every team there become huge DSU fans

Without that advsntage i think upsets will be far more rare.

2. I think it helps offense focused teams. Games will inherently take on more of a pickup game feel. That generally means faster pace and more offense

Your thoughts?

Are they still televised? Commercial timeouts will still happen....

 

[The Derski]

They could just pump in artificial crowd noise like the Seahawks.

 

[ericd7633]

I'm wondering if it could lead to more upsets? All the higher seeds playing closer to home won't have that advantage anymore.

I can see your point about this being more beneficial to better offensive teams.

 

[Deep Creek]

Do I have this correct? We don't want to risk fans spreading the virus to each other but it is okay for the players to risk spreading it to each another?

 

[osubuckeye89]

UNFAIR! Playing in front of no fans is going to give the mid-majors a HUGE advantage since they've been doing this their entire careers.

 

[BigKen]

More fouls will be called. No home crowds to coerce the officials.

It will be a lot easier to hear players swearing at officials.

 

[osubuckeye89]

More fouls will be called. No home crowds to coerce the officials.

It will be a lot easier to hear players swearing at officials.

I was gonna say, itll be interesting in the aspect of being able to hear EVERYTHING coaches and players yell

 

[The Derski]

Do I have this correct? We don't want to risk fans spreading the virus to each other but it is okay for the players to risk spreading it to each another?

It makes sense. When this whole crisis is over and nothing happens people will come out and say “see I knew nothing would happen, they took way too many precautions”, when that’s exactly the point. They want nothing to happen.

 

[The Derski]

The point is to avoid congregating into large groups.

 

[osubuckeye89]

Id laugh so hard if CBS tried pumping in crowd noise, even though we damn well know there is no crowd, similar to how crappy wrestling promotions would do crowd sweetening for their tapings back in the day.

 

[uncfan103]

I was gonna say, itll be interesting in the aspect of being able to hear EVERYTHING coaches and players yell

unless they remove those mics as much as possible to diminish the sounds of the squeaking lol

 

[SteelersPride]

Think it actually helps small schools . The small Schools don't get the fan push unless they r in it late. Otherwise it's For the big guys

 

[osubuckeye89]

In all honesty, theres no way this doesn't effect teams. Should make for a whacky tourney to finish off a whacky season

 

[wingsauce7]

They can just play the games at the YMCA now.

 

[SteelersPride]

In all honesty, theres no way this doesn't effect teams. Should make for a whacky tourney to finish off a whacky season

But how lol

 

[jontaejones]

My first 2 thoughts were

1. Upsets are going to be far less likely. We all know how it works. Little Directional State U is close to an upset and the fans of every team there become huge DSU fans

Without that advsntage i think upsets will be far more rare.

2. I think it helps offense focused teams. Games will inherently take on more of a pickup game feel. That generally means faster pace and more offense

Your thoughts?

Family and coaches allowed. So it will have more of a fell of an AAU game.

Its going to be strange to be sure. Well see how it works out.

 

[SteelersPride]

Well Tom Hanks and Rudy Gobert have coronavirus.

 

[Guy Incognito]

More fouls will be called. No home crowds to coerce the officials.

It will be a lot easier to hear players swearing at officials.

Coach K is going to have to tone it down a bit for TV.