The Saturday Column With No Name: These Are The “Good Ole Days” So Enjoy This Texas Tech Basketball Run No Matter What, The Death Of Cinderella In March Madness Plus Deion Sanders Earned Every Penny At Colorado….

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We gotta go fast today on the Saturday Column With No Name. Again, got any ideas for a cool name, fire away in the comments below. We got Texas Tech Baseball with a huge game at K-State this afternoon and of course, the Red Raiders taking on Florida for the right to go to the Final Four. So… here’s some quick thought.

1. Always remember and never forget… these are the Good Ole Days. When it comes to your favorite teams like say, Texas Tech, never give away a moment. It’s not easy doing what the Red Raiders are doing playing in the Elite 8. Always appreciate deep runs like this. We watched Texas Tech Baseball fans a few years ago being to think going to Omaha was easy and expected. It’s not. It’s really hard. I called a lot of great games for Lady Raider Basketball in the 90s and early 2000s. Most folks thought it would last forever. It never does. So enjoy and embrace the moment and don’t take it for granted. Just love what’s happening now.
2. This NCAA Tournament has left some wondering where all the Cinderella Stories are. Where are the small-schools? NIL and the Transfer Portal have killed the ability of mid-majors to hold on to players now, grow them and make runs in the tournament. And it’s not going to change any time soon. Get ready for the NCAA Tournament to look like the College Football Playoffs. The four major conferences will dominate. Don’t like? Don’t matter. It’s what’s happening and in fact, in a few years, the major football conferences will hold their own college basketball playoff outside of the NCAA and that will be that.
3. The fact that Colorado can pay Deion Sanders 54 millions dollars over 5 years or so tells you all you need to know about the value he has generated for an athletic program that was on the rocks. Stuck in the dying Pac-12, moderately small market and no on-field success; that Sanders commands this kind of money tells you that the school and the community knows what his presence is worth in 2025. Is he worth it? Yes. Colorado understands that without Sanders and the exposure he has generated they could easily be Washington State. It goes away that quickly. The question now is what is the Second Act In Boulder for Sanders. With is son gone and Travis Hunter moving on… can he replicate the excitement? Either way, Colorado knows the price of poker in major college football and they probably bought in on the cheap, all things considered.

All right, there’s some quick Saturday thoughts for you. Feel free to add you comments below and then join us LIVE tonight for Roundball Rewind after Texas Tech and Florida wrap up in San Francisco. We’ll be on X, YouTube And Facebook Live, so watch on the platform you choose!