NCAA Transformation Committee Recommends Expanding March Madness Fields
Still have to vote on it.
March Madness to 90 Teams?
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Still have to vote on it.
Awful idea
Also its just a broad recommendation for every sport to have 25% representation in championship tourney...really makes no sense
Also its just a broad recommendation for every sport to have 25% representation in championship tourney...really makes no sense
why not just invite everyone at that point? Give everyone a trophy
90 teams!?! Great way to make the regular season and conference tournaments basically irrelevant if every team with a .500 record will make it. Leave it to the NCAA to screw up a PERFECT thing.
Just a horrendous idea which means it will probably pass due to the selfishness of those with the vote and the total disregard for common sense. And they don't need to let more "little guys" in or have any more bubble team play in games. The conference tournaments serve that purpose. The little guy has a chance to compete with the big guys by handling business in their dinky conferences and everyone has a chance to play their way in by impressing in their conference tournaments as well.
I'm still annoyed at 68. It should have been kept at 64.
Get off my lawn!
Get off my lawn!
100%…last 8 in should be the play in games, but the 16 seeds like that guaranteed game 2 $ for one of the teams.
Once again, the NCAA shows they are focused more on maximizing profits than the integrity and landscape of college sports. Just like they did nothing to standardize NIL regulations and simply punted to the court system.
Why not make it 96 teams - 32 get a bye and 64 face one extra game. I would personally go with 128 with the extra game on the home court of the higher-seeded team. Not sure about all the whining about going to 90. We're already at 68. There is something like 360 D1 basketball programs. More NCAA tournament games = more fun and excitement.
If I had my way, I'd would eliminate the conference championships in favor of more NCAA tourney games. But the championships are highly profitable for the top conferences, so they probably ain't going nowhere.
If I had my way, I'd would eliminate the conference championships in favor of more NCAA tourney games. But the championships are highly profitable for the top conferences, so they probably ain't going nowhere.
The NCAA fought NIL all the way to the Supreme Court - that's the opposite of punting. I don't mind the NCAA maximizing profit so much as I wish they would find a way to reasonable NIL regulations after so many years of stonewalling the students, err workers.
Conference tournaments are great. They're great on television and awesome in person. And the buildings are usually packed. More NCAA tournament games and no conference tournaments would certainly not be more fun and exciting. The current early round games in the NCAA tournament are normally played in mostly empty arenas. It would also devalue the regular season even more than people think it does now. All this to kowtow to non-college basketball fans that only pay attention when they have a chance to win money in a bracket? No thanks.
The conference tournaments ARE play in games it's just not the NCAA signing the TV contracts w/ CBS and Turner for them.
Will folks be as interested in filling out a 128 team or 90 team bracket as they are today? (IMO)Folks are interested for the first 48 hours because they fill out brackets and play in pools. And with 64 teams its a relatively straight forward process. Make it hard and complicated and it loses something I would think.
It will make the regular season so much less meaningful. Awful idea so that the rich can get a little richer
haha . my thought exactly - including the "get off my lawn" part
I would go 128 too. We already can add 32 NIT to 64. Lots of those NIT teams could win a game or too. Would limit at least to .500 teams in league. Conference finish would determine seeding if you do make it.
Not sure fighting a battle that they lost 9-0 at SCOTUS was smart. Might not be "punting", but it sure as heck was an ill advised strategy. Fighting a battle you have zero chance to win while losing complete control of your "golden goose" is, at best, poor leadership. At worst it's incompetence.
This I agree with. 100%.
That said, It is long past time for the NCAA to develop a set of reasonable NIL (and transfer policy) regulations. The Wild West is not a good look for the NCAA, the schools and it's athletes.
This is just my opinion, but the conference tourneys completely devalue the regular season. I might feel differently if all conferences got both their regular season and conference tourney champions into the tournament.
Do people realize the drek that going to 96 or 128 entails...as well has wiping out the whole fun of bracketology...shoukd be lots of fun deciding between 17-13 Duquense and 19-12 Bowling Green
And forget about non conference..why bother scheduling tough when its largely meaningless
Note this almost would push the power 6 to create their own tourney
And forget about non conference..why bother scheduling tough when its largely meaningless
Note this almost would push the power 6 to create their own tourney
This would have been the correct strategy three years ago. It is my opinion that based on the path they took the NCAA lost the ability to now impose these rules on their student-athletes. And since they don't have anyone to negotiate "a deal" with, all a unilateral imposition of rules restricting NIL will do is set up another legal battle. That they will lose again.
In ten years there will be a business school case study on just how badly the NCAA handled this.
Or even better, back when it was only 32 with a limit of two teams per conference.
Terrible idea to go to 90+ teams. Way to dilute the greatest event in all of college sports! Brackets would not be as interesting for the general public, too, when you cannot easily print the bracket out on a single sheet.
I didn't realize this. Would the players need set to up a union - like the NFLPA? I guess NIL truly is in the hands of the courts then. I doubt that this new Congress will do anything
Yes. Until/unless the NCAA players unionize (like the NFLPA as you wrote) and collectively bargain "a different deal" then NIL in its current form is settled law. The NCAA has no ability to place limitations on NIL.
March Madness is one of the top sporting events of the year - it was great at 64....not a fan of the 4 extra teams. but whatever. Why are they messing with something that is done so well? The answer is of course of obvious - $$$$, but really hope they leave this alone.
This is double awful. The top 128 includes a LOT of teams that are below .500 in their conference. Why should they be left out in order to water down a field EVEN FURTHER than you would by going to 128 in the first place.