The NCAA owes an apology

Each year the NCAA ought to send an official letter of apology to all the teams that "get" to play in the play-in games. Those games exist just to allow a few more sub-par money conference coaches a chance to boost their resumes. They make no sense at all and are an insult to the teams that get bumped to the first day of the tournament. Oh, the NCAA  goes to great lengths to pretend they are really part of the tournament, but continual slips of lips show how people really view them, and logically should.