Brendan Sorsby is already looking at the money line for CFP to follow suit. Not a matter of IF, but more like when.
Shorter:
The mechanics of the expansion in the men’s tournament would include eight additional at-large bids. What’s known now as the First Four — eight teams playing four games in Dayton, Ohio — would expand to 12 games played by 24 teams at two sites, one of which was expected to remain in Dayton.
So not too drastic of an expansion, but it would’ve allowed for Auburn, Champions of the NIT and likely West Virginia, who won the post-season College Basketball Crown, to have participated in the NCAA Tournament. While this would’ve quieted the Barners and Daddy Pearl’s griping about not getting it, it would’ve stolen the false sense of pride that Aubie could get from winning a lesser tournament, as it’s hard to see Auburn making the Final Four givn the product on the floor.
But, as we all know, that’s not the driving force behind this. Quite frankly, it’s more of that sweet, sweet green that college sports champions so much today.
Money, for the win.
I wouldn’t say that people that run college sports hate college sports. I think it’s more like a program or app getting an “upgrade” that’s driven by human ego. You start with something that works pretty well or you’ve at least adapted to using it. Say Microsoft Excel or Adobe Photoshop. Then a new team at Microsoft or Adobe decides to “fix” this unbroken product and they change it all around so that it’s suddenly unusable.
Yay! Now we’ll make the tournament!
Who cares.
Blain – hammer striking hardened metal fastener.
It’s not that they hate college sports they just value money more.
Michael Adam$ on steriods.
Why? Intellectually I understand but emotionally I ask why?
my $0.02…If I were the NIT, I’d restructure it to run it in parallel during the season… like the FA cup(lower level teams play each other in the first month, then they start playing the big boys, but every team is in it)…they have the NIT championship before the conference championships start.
The NCAA owns the NIT. If you were the NIT you would do what the NCAA tells you to do.
Tournament expansion is just stupid. What have those additional teams done during the regular season that warrant their inclusion in March Madness?
I now can’t wait for UGA hoop dawgs to lose in the play-in game rather than the actual first round.
Ouch.
Gonna need bigger paper to print out those brackets.