Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Pappy's NCAA Plan

If I were running the NCAA, here is what I would do. I would move all post-season tournaments to pre-season. Then, I would eliminate all conference tournaments, and make the NCAA tournament to include all qualified D-1 teams. This would eliminate the griping about who gets into the tournament, and prevent the continued watering-down of the meaningfulness of the tournament by expanding it.

If you are going to expand it further, then expand it completely. The regular season is almost meaningless now, anyway, since the NCAA gets all the publicity and so many so-called fans only follow the sport during the tournament. So, make it a little season all to itself and then perhaps, in contrast, the regular season will mean a little more.

My goal in all this modification is not to put more emphasis on the tournament, since “making the tournament” means very little to all the teams that stand a chance to win it, anyway. Then, the conferences can do what they need to in order to put the glamour back into the regular season conference championship and the conference tournaments, which are relatively meaningless except to allow teams to make the NCAA which don’t deserve to be there, will be de-emaphasized.

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