Fox Discussing Post-Season NIT Alternative w/ BE, Big 12, B10

[HuskyHawk]

You can't ensure small schools get knocked off. That's what makes the tournament so great.

Oh I know. And the big schools know that people love to see it happen. So they'll be in, but in an expanded tournament, if you seed them low enough, they aren't going to go far. Aside from UConn in 2014 (if you want to count that) nobody outside of the P5/Big East has won since 1963.

They love the drama but will make it hard for small conference schools to make a deep run. If the P4 are pushing for expansion, it's to grab more credits not to help small conference schools.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Because some writers referred to a P6 in basketball does not make it so.

You’re either an autonomy conference or you are not.

Oh, so not P5 anymore. It used to be "You're either a P5 conference or you are not", but then the Pac 12 went away and the Big East is still a major.

How many times are you going to double down on everything staying exactly as it is until the end of time when everything is changing at light speed?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Oh I know. And the big schools know that people love to see it happen. So they'll be in, but in an expanded tournament, if you seed them low enough, they aren't going to go far. Aside from UConn in 2014 (if you want to count that) nobody outside of the P5/Big East has won since 1963.

They love the drama but will make it hard for small conference schools to make a deep run. If the P4 are pushing for expansion, it's to grab more credits not to help small conference schools.

Because the big schools have not figured out a way to cut out the other 300 basketball and 60 football programs without interest in college sports collapsing completely. If they had figured it out, it would have been done already.