Mike Slive
Mike Slive
Michael Lawrence Sliveis an American attorney and college sports executive. Slive is the former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, a college athletics association. As part of his role as the SEC Commissioner, he served as the coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series for the 2006 and 2007 regular seasons. He was a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee through September 2009 and served as the chairman of the committee for the 2008–09 academic year. He has announced...
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I don't want to deal in the world of speculation. But I don't see any significant changes. Then again, it's early in the day.
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I can't think that far ahead. Just having two of our teams at the Final Four is quite an accomplishment in itself.
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It is very gratifying to see, as so much of the media pronounced us dead in November.
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It's important now that this loophole be looked at nationally, ... In 2000, when the N.C.A.A. decided to move away from some critical analysis, it opened the door and people moved ahead with it.
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It's good to have him back in the league.
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The conference didn't have to take any action of any kind,
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I will have discussions with our athletics directors soon and will recommend that we eliminate the subjective element of the tiebreaker and replace it with objective criteria.
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The fascinating thing about the committee is that in the final analysis, you have to exercise your own subjective judgment. It's so easy to just latch onto numbers. You could have watched a team play whose numbers really don't truly illustrate how good it is.
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I was very impressed with the culture of the committee. You leave your hat at the door, so to speak, and do the best that you can with the material that's in front of you. There's a lot of information and the data is used in a way that's very efficient in terms of comparing teams. Then you have subjective impressions and the final analysis.
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It doesn't do me any good to speculate.