cartel...oh hell.
It's always someone else's fault. The call of the permanent victim whose fate is always determined by "powerful others".
Sure there is P5 privilege, white privilege, wealth privilege, etc., but to define your circumstances to be beyond your control, is to abdicate any personal responsibility.
Do you think that programs like Liberty and UMass compete well right now with programs like Ohio State , Alabama, LSU etc. that have spent 100 years and a billion dollars building up fan bases and athletic structure and tradition?
Basketball...you can compete at the highest level if you have a couple of star players. Not so in football.
And the NCAA tournament is just show for the 9-16 seeds. A participation trophy where the chance to win the tourney is zero. No seed of #9 -#16 has made the championship game. It makes us feel good...but they are not there to be a champion.
There is actually no real reason to have the back half of the seeds included other than for the entertainment and the show of diversity...they do not make the championshop game.
In fact...the #1-#3 seeds have a 88.3% chance of winning based on past history through 2019.
A #4 seed drops off to a 2.9% chance....Yep, they have a chance, but a negligible one.
The lower seeds in the tourney give an illusion of diversity and equality of chance...but actually have no chance for the championship.
The beauty of FBS football is that the season counts...every weekend is a playoff. A game lost has real meaning...
