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Message: [QUOTE="Adriacus, post: 3713482, member: 10787"] The problem of conferences politicking to maximize their spots is expected and difficult to solve as long as they remain part of the selection process. The problems of unbalanced brackets, disproportionate location impact, etc. are somewhat more easily addressed. The “assumption“ re basketball experience relates to middle of the pack seedlings and balanced brackets. Every year we see one quadrant that is the cakewalk and another that is a death march.....every year. Some of that failure is not understanding the “upside/downside“ of major conference 6-10 loss teams. Some of that failure is not understanding high quality mid-major teams versus mid-major teams with super records against poor competition. I think that the non-basketball people are the core of those two problems/failures. They sometimes rely on “brand” over reality. They sometimes simply listen to the basketball people on the committee [how many times to we hear “we really value the insights of former coaches on the committee”] creating oversized impact by a few voices. The purpose of any committee is balanced input. Personally, in EVERY sport I would like to see committees peopled by legendary coaches and players from lower divisions. The quality of play and coaching is surprisingly high in some instances. Many would jump at the opportunity. It would be easy to avoid bias and politicking, create geographic diversity, and insure that voices from varying styles of play are part of the process. [/QUOTE]

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