Expand to 128...no way!!!

Note: This post is a recovery from an original post from an older nowdefunct blog

Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64?-The Beatles Or 65 if you're the play in game loser? There has been a certain sarcosanct quality about the the size of the NCAA tourney. When it was expanded to 64 teams in 1985, the tourney covers three weekends and makes March the most exciting time of the year. There is now a proposal to expand the tourney one more round to incluse 63 more teams. So a team would have to win 7 games to win the national title. In theory a team in the play-in game would have to do just that, but the winner of that game has to play the #1 seed and a #16 has yet to beat a #1. If you wish to expand, add 3 more teams to the play in round and make the Dayton site and all day affair. But say no to the 128, you then water down the tourney with so-so teams and there would be some 1st round stinker games. really who wants to see a #15 and a #18 seed play? Stop the madness in the madness. Its not surprising that the NABC has proposed this tourney expansion, but its just a bottom line measure. Coaches are always looking for job security, having the caveat of saying we got into the tournament even with a first round loss is still in. I like the bubble watch, I like the spec that goes with it. I want teams earn it, if you have a 128 team tourney more middling teams from the so-called power conferences will play weak schedules and the upset minded so-called mid-majors will still get the shaft. You might as well kill the conference tourneys then, because 8 of 12 teams in the ACC and Big Ten and 12 of 16 teams in the Big East would get in. We all know that the ACC and SEC will not give up an annual cash cow even if it does mean a couple more of their teams get in the tourney. Seriously the ACC tourney hasn't had a public sale of tickets in over 40 years, and with the recent expansion in teams that means more games and more money going to that conference, money that would have to be shared in the tourney. The NCAA tourney should be an earned privlege not a divine right of the big monied teams. I know that my beloved alma mater is one of the big boys in a power conference, but I'm all for the spunky little guys. Don't hand me that bull that George Mason, Wichita State or Bradley was an abberation, an anomoly. Go ask Michigan State, UNC, Kansas, Pitt, Tennessee or UConn teams that got beat by these "anomolies" if they were aberrations.