If George Mason were to win the title.

[BJNT]

Do you think that the term "mid-major" will be put to bed?

[cbgatorade0202]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

Do you think that the term "mid-major" will be put to bed?

Nope, Not at all

[ehh]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

Of course not.

[fsquid]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

I would flip and burn my car though in celebration if they won.

[Brankles]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

Conference USA has Memphis, and they're still considered a mid-major.

I don't think one team automatically gives the rest of the small schools in the country any immediate or long term credibility.

[fsquid]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

Memphis hasn't won a national title though. Bill Walton cheated in that game too, by the way.

[Brankles]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

Memphis hasn't won a national title though. Bill Walton cheated in that game too, by the way.

He had all of his sliders turned all the way up.

[dkgojackets]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

no

[Cebby]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

Do you think that the term "mid-major" will be put to bed?

Did it go away when UNLV won the championship? Did it go away when Utah was in the Final Four? Every year there will be a few mid majors that are great successes in the tourny. However, every year those mid majors are impossible to guess, and ussually very inconsistant. For the most part, there's a noticable differance that separates midmajors from power conferances. Now, this differance is often wildly exagerated (the tenth BE team would destroy George Mason), but there is a differance.

[MassNole]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

We'll never lose this term barring a dramatic change in the NCAA.

[yucatan]

Re: If George Mason were to win the title.

I think the problem is that people evaluate the league based on the bottom rather than the top. Many mid-majors that are on top of their conference are close to if not equal to many of the top teams in the power conferences. It's just that the bottom-feeders in the mid-majors are largely worse than the bottom-feeders in the power conferences which makes us incorrectly perceive certain top-level teams from some conferences to be weak.