Expanding the NCAA Tournament won't make it better | Opinion
Expansion of March Madness is coming, according to reports the NCAA tournaments will be expanded to 76 teams soon after this year's Final Four.
INDIANAPOLIS – The greed is astounding. Not from the athletes, who the power brokers and even the president of the United States would have you believe are bringing about the ruin of college sports . No, the people who have broken the system are the esteemed leaders of college sports, the commissioners and university presidents willing to burn it all down if it means more cash in their pockets.
It wasn’t enough to destroy the fabric of college sports, the traditional, mostly geographically-based rivalries by supersizing the power conferences. Now they appear set on watering down the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments so the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 can get a few more of their mediocre teams in. Armour: Dan Hurley isn’t actually a jerk.
He just plays one on TV Why not just say the hell with it and make it all comers? If 76 teams will wring a few more zeroes out of CBS and TNT and ESPN, imagine what 350-plus would bring! It’s shameful, and it will do more to destroy the best thing left in college athletics than any 20-something who’s finally getting paid.
Expansion of the tournament has been on the table for what seems like an eternity, but someone has always had the good sense to pump the brakes . Not anymore, apparently. According to Yahoo!