Well I have to get some things off my chest and when I say some things I mean one.... the expansion of the NCAA Tournament. I have one question, just one, who thinks that this is a good idea? Besides the head idiot’s that make these decisions. Seriuously? Expanding the NCAA Tournament to 96 teams is the worst idea for college sports since... I don’t know. This is horrible! It is purely money driven. That is the only reason why they are doing this. Now, let me list a few issues I have with this.
I would start from worst to greatest, but I think all of them have a great value in and of themselves. First off, Academics. Let’s be honest, being a college student is already hard as it is. Being a student-athlete is torture. Now, put in the fact that for an entire month, these athletes are going to be missing school, and not just a little bit of school, but a ton of school! Starting with their conference tournament they are going to miss an entire weekend starting at the end of February or early March, if not more like a week. Than, they are going to fly out Wednesday if not earlier to get some rest and do the media thing and all that jazz, play Thursday or Friday, and then Saturday or Sunday. Now repeat that three more weeks. With conference tournament and NCAA Tournament that is a month of school! I don’t know of any college student who can still pass their classes after missing a week of school, yet a lone a month! The NCAA prides themselves about their student athletes. I don’t know, with a schedule like that, it sounds more like athlete athlete.
Two, the bracket. Just from the logistics of it, it is retarded. We are going to have 64 teams play and the winners of those will play the other 32. Really? This is completely idiotic. Have all these teams fly all over the nation just to be one and done! That’s a lot of wasted money, time, and effort. Yeah sure you are going to put them in the same place for a few days, but what about all those fans? Where are they going to stay? Would people even fly half way across their country to see their them play the 92 seed? Or how about number 96? How big is that group following going to be?
That leads me to my next point. Name the last time a 16 seed won a game? Name it? Every person gets four picks right every year! It’s not rocket science. The 16 seeds have never won a game. Ever! Average lose is by 30 points in the 1 v. 16 game. The 16a v. 16b game, also known as the play in game, is to find out who is going to be the first loser to the one seed of the tournament. Oh, so let’s expand the field for the same thing to happen? That doesn’t sound like a good competitive sport. Rather, it sounds like something that they would tell me in first grade, “we are all winners!” I’m not buying it! Not for one second!
Now, I know we all have ideas, but you know, sometimes you have to face the music and admit your ideas sometimes stink, suck, are horrible, or whatever word that you can use to describe bad! But just because you have an idea, and it can make you a little money, doesn’t mean you should go out and do it. I can rob a bank and make some money there, is that a good idea.... Think about it.
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