Oct 7, 2026 · 56 min · 15 segments
🏀 **BIRD FANS 4 EVER — EPISODE 95!** 🏀 Illinois State head coach **Ryan Pedon** joins **Bird Fans 4 Ever** for an inside look at what it really takes to build a college basketball season. 🎙️ **How…
Ryan PedonGuestPamHostSteveHostJohnHostWe have a new Valley kind of, uh, Valley tournament, right? Arch Madness is now gonna have the women combined in.
Uh, some games, some breaks, some more games.
You know, two people now get super buys.
What are you kinda thinking of this?
Amen
One of the great things about our league is the history and the tradition and the passion that our fans have, uh, especially surrounding that tournament.
So I think you go into, um, into it knowing regardless of what changes are made, there's gonna be a, a, a faction of the population that's gonna be-
[laughs]
... uh, really upset, and there's gonna be probably a faction that's gonna be, um, neutral, and there'll probably a- be a faction that, you know, uh, realizes, hey, this is, this could be a good idea, you know? Nobody knows for sure.
But what I do, what I do feel pretty strongly about is that we couldn't sit in neutral and just stay.
Mm-hmm
... score has, has changed in terms of, um, uh, how many teams get into the tournament, number one.
Mm-hmm.
And then number three, the super conferences, okay? Like, um, and without going into a long dissertation, what I will tell you is that, uh, for the, the, the common fan, the metrics, uh, that go into the net rankings, okay? The metrics have changed.
And, uh, the, the opportunities that we have in the non-conference portion of the schedule are so few and far between.
Amen.
We have a new Valley kind of, uh, Valley tournament, right? Arch Madness is now gonna have the women combined in.
Uh, some games, some breaks, some more games.
You know, two people now get super buys.
What are you kinda thinking of this?
Amen
One of the great things about our league is the history and the tradition and the passion that our fans have, uh, especially surrounding that tournament.
So I think you go into, um, into it knowing regardless of what changes are made, there's gonna be a, a, a faction of the population that's gonna be-
[laughs]
... uh, really upset, and there's gonna be probably a faction that's gonna be, um, neutral, and there'll probably a- be a faction that, you know, uh, realizes, hey, this is, this could be a good idea, you know? Nobody knows for sure.
But what I do, what I do feel pretty strongly about is that we couldn't sit in neutral and just stay.
Mm-hmm
... score has, has changed in terms of, um, uh, how many teams get into the tournament, number one.
Mm-hmm.
And then number three, the super conferences, okay? Like, um, and without going into a long dissertation, what I will tell you is that, uh, for the, the, the common fan, the metrics, uh, that go into the net rankings, okay? The metrics have changed.
And, uh, the, the opportunities that we have in the non-conference portion of the schedule are so few and far between.
Amen.
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