America East tournament format change - 2015

[UAalum72]

AE announced that the postseason will be on campus sites starting in 2015. No more gathering of fans from all the teams in one spot. Brackets will be reseeded after each round.

http://www.americaeast.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=14000&ATCLID=209275526

 

No mention of a change to the women's tournament.

[UA'08]

So dumb. I guess stony brook got their way. Obviously teams like uvm, Maine, unh, and umbc all voted for it as well.

[alum73]

Sucks.

[Dane Pound]

A step backward. I'm all for more home games but the tournament was fun, even in Bing.

[MRSGDG]

Why even have a conf tournament. Just let the winner of the regular season go to the NCAA tournament if they are going to reseed. Stupid move.. can't wait to leave the AE and their amateur hour.

[DanesRGood]

I'm disgusted by this decision. I suggest you tweet, email or whatever to let them know if you truly disagree. I am all for the #1 getting to the NCAAs but this absolutely ruins the whole fan experience. As you know I don't live in Albany so even if the first round game is at home there is very little chance I will be able to go on a Wednesday and bring 3-7 alumni with me. On a Saturday night, yes. Wednesday night, not so much. And how many fans from the away team going to show up to those first round games? Just horrible horrible and horrible.

[MRSGDG]

GDG was tweeting about this regarding SB whining and the Stony Brook Athletics accidentally tweeted (instead of the guys personal account) at GDG saying UA was irrelevant, they then deleted the tweet haha.

Edited October 3, 2013 by MsGDG

[MRSGDG]

Reseeding is the worst. Meaning if the #1 seed wins they stay at home the entire 'tournament'.

[BestDaneSinceHamlet]

What was Stony Brook's reason in wanting this?

[McFan]

Bad, bad decision.

[UA'08]

It's going to be great when sbu fails to make it to the tourney AGAIN and then sticks it to the America east and leaves. What a awful conference, can't wait till we bounce.

[Clickclack]

If the CAA calls again... Get out of this stupid conference... This is utterly embarrassing...

[UAalum72]

What was Stony Brook's reason in wanting this?

Some SB fans were complaining about playing on a lower seed's home court (ignoring that they lost to UVM at home the year before).

 

But supposedly the vote was unanimous.

 

The tournament was an event, that you could plan for. Going forward, it'll be just another basketball game, until the final.

[uofalbany]

If the CAA calls again... Get out of this stupid conference... This is utterly embarrassing...

 

Bringing back the discussion of 'to move or not to move'.....

this should convince some

 

Ridiculous.

[Oldtimer]

14 posts and not one in favor of the change. I will make it #15. We always enjoyed going to the tournament especially when men and women were at one site. This is a super bummer for fans and I'm not sure it is good for the conference. An expensive move for the schools---go to Maine for game #1, go to UMBC for game #2 and UVM for game #3---I don't think anyone will go to Stony Brook because they will be out of the conference by 2015.