(02-03-2019 12:05 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-02-2019 11:52 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-02-2019 11:13 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 01:00 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-31-2019 07:22 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  Not sure why this is such a difficult concept to understand - the P5 has the power and control of the NCAA as it is. They are the ones directing what is going on.

Not really. And they don't want to have total control. Otherwise they would dump the bureaucracy and form their own group.

And the tournament would be more popular if a bunch of schools weren't in it. Butler and VCU aren't the schools who would get dumped.

There is no basis in reality for your statement. The opposite is true. March Madness is an EVENT, bolstered by the chances of the little guy upsetting a power.

Anyone wanting to limit the number of schools, number of games, etc doesn't understand what drives the tournament popularity.

Its a bunch of you smaller school fans who don't understand what drives it. Its not the schools that lose by 30 and 40 points.

Hate to break it to you but BOTH drive the tourney.

Its the Butlers that are the underdogs people pay attention to. Not the ones who lose by 30 and 40. It wouldn't lose a single rating point if you dropped it from 68 to 60 teams by dropping the bottom 8 conferences. You could probably drop the bottom 12 conferences and nobody would notice.