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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4775731, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1719407811975582197[/MEDIA] [URL='https://theathletic.com/5017262/2023/10/31/nit-changes-ncaa-tournament/'][B]Assisted access link <<[/B][/URL] -> That, perhaps more than anything, is the real rub in all of this. The last round of conference expansion has removed any semblance of collegiality in college athletics. A 100-year-old league has crumbled and its last standing members, Washington State and Oregon State, have filed an injunction against their former partners. The ACC nearly had to stiff-arm its members into agreeing to admit [URL='https://theathletic.com/college-basketball/team/stanford-cardinal-college-basketball/'][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Stanford[/COLOR][/URL] and Cal, and even with the additions, [URL='https://theathletic.com/college-basketball/team/clemson-tigers-college-basketball/'][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Clemson[/COLOR][/URL] and Florida State could leave. Saving or killing the NIT will not be the death knell in any of this, but a Power 6-tilted format delivered with the sneakiness of a perfectly timed Friday news dump isn’t easing anyone’s worries. The commissioners all say they intend to make their displeasure known — some already have reached out to NCAA executive vice president Dan Gavitt. “Is it the end of the world? No. We have so many fish to fry with the College Football Playoff issues (and) the NCAA Tournament expansion conversation, but the NIT has importance to a lot of schools,’’ Aresco said. “Let’s not minimize that. But more than that, the camaraderie within the NCAA seems to be fraying considerably. This does not help. It does not help at all.’’ <- [/QUOTE]

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