He wants the NIT not the CBI.

He obviously can't get into the NCAA's so he's trying the next best thing.

That just happens to be the NIT.

Just fighting for his team.

Well Said, The Picker. NIT = Not In Tournament.

Please apply..these jobs are open, Arkansas, Manhatten, Wyoming

TU could create a curricum that is more attractive to their potential student-athletes.

Not a basket weaving basketball degree, but something in PE or Athletic Management that a ball player could earn a worthwhile degree in.

Hard to recruit basketball players that are able to also earn an engineering degree at TU.

Until they add these type programs, they are missing out on many great ball players that chose to go elsewhere.

I read about all these problems - sitting down, standing up, academics too high (although that's always the bragging point of TU), bad coach, bad crowds, no parking. Here's a new take. Those Tubby years thru the Peterson years (remember him?) we were just lucky. This is exactly where we should be and it is where we will be until we get lucky again.

I didn't say anything about dumbing down the academics...I said give some degree alternatives, away from Engineering, Law, Petroleum related, and Business.

Many student athletes graduate from other colleges with degrees in Marketing, Communications, Teaching certificates...that is not dumbing down...that is just offering programs that would attract more potential recruits.

Maybe it is just me, but, TU only loses Hurtt next year. Granted he is their best player. Returning Clarkson, Harralson, Pope, Richard, and Idlet is a pretty strong nucleus. Playing a few games in the NIT would have been quite beneficial IMO.

What is the difference between the picker and any other Joe Schmo that posts on an internet message board? Nothing...they both use anonymity to cover up their outlandish opinions and ignorance.

Bubba needs to lobby for better players.

ESPN has disgraced itself as never before, with the Hack Team of Bilas, Vitale, Digger and Gottlieb crying foul for Colorado being left out! Colorado? Colorado stinks. The truth behind the story is: ESPN lost the games to CBS! It is a big, fat spoil sport. Thank heavens for CBS. In still more great TV news, ESPN lost the Triple Crown horse races to NBC!

And here's this note. Remember Clarke and Page, the two can't-miss prospects from this area, supposedly the greatest shooters since the rounding of the basketball? Their teams missed the tournament.

So, will the Picker write a special column for the NCAA games here in Tulsa?

Mike, Colorado stinks. It beat Kansas State three times? K-State stinks. Send us a note when your ring gets in, we'll do a photo.

Pick, K-State is a five seed. Colorado also beat Texas, did they not?

Look, the entire field is down this year. You know that. It's not about whether or not Colorado stinks. It's about whether or not they stink as bad as some of the at-larges that were allowed in the field of 68. And they certainly don't.

And another ring joke? Really? Time to stock up on some more originality, Pick. You're really starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel.