Kabooom said:
WILDCATFAN said:
Some of you are being really rediculous, despite it being better to have the current champ hosting the stupid tournament. The fact that its perdetermined by the previous year's champion isnt completely awful. Weber is hosting because Weber won the reg season title last year. If Montana wants to host then win the reg season this year and you'll be hosting next year.....it's that simple.
There is absolutely no catering to Weber State happening at all. If Montana had won the reg season last year and was the school hosting this year NONE of you would be whining about it.
Wild ..ok i 'll take your word on that. I thought that the tournament was a done deal to be in Ogden year after year...no matter who won the Conference...hence my dismay...My mistake then.
If this were to be the case, it would be be a real pile...Agreed? It's still a bone-headed change . It only makes for good common sense to AWARD the Conf. Champ with the hosting rights in the current season...not the fricking next...It's normally a reward for the Institution and its Town...Truly a Homer decision by Home Office....
You don't need to take my word for it, the article says it in the 2nd paragraph.
Entering its sixth year of softball competition in 2018, the Big Sky Conference office announced the first pre-determined site in the history of its softball championship with the previous regular season champion serving as host moving forward.
And don't get me wrong, I agree that the winner of the regular season should host the tournament. It should be their reward, (just like it should be in basketball grumble grumble :x ) But in an age where everything has to be "fair and cheap and easy" predetermined sites are the way things are going to go. And it's not like it's just the Big Sky, Almost every conference has at least one sport where the site of a tournament is predetermined. It sucks, and I hate it. But unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it. We can cry, whine, carry on and say things like #bsc but in the end you are going to be hard pressed to find any conference where at least one sport's championship isn't hosted at a predetermined site.