Liberals must run the NCAA

The NCAA has to be run by packs of liberals.

How do I know? Because college football is a mess as evidenced by the BCS sham and the poaching of coaches while schools are still in season.

While creating problems is the typical liberal m.o., solving them is how you can really tell these are liberals in charge.

How do they propose fixing the problems in college football? By increasing the NCAA basketball tournament to 96 teams.......

The NCAA is in the very early stages of exploring making changes to its men's basketball tournament. One idea that's been batted around: expanding it to 96 teams. Here's a simple suggestion: Stop exploring. Start doing.

Expanding the 65-team tournament—the NCAA's universally beloved, crown-jewel property—is the biggest no-brainer in sports right now. Far bigger, even, than all the talk of imposing a playoff on college football.

Expansion would, in no particular order, give more quality teams a chance to prove themselves and fix the shamefully low percentage of bids given to lesser-known "mid-major" teams. It might also create enough of a supply of games to allow a portion of the tournament to be shown on cable (at the moment, fans can't see every game in its entirety because CBS—the rights holder—doesn't broadcast every game nationally).

First, I would offer that the tournament is open to nearly every Division I basketball team in a conference via the conference tournament; consider it a pre qualifier like the World Cup and Olympics have.

Second, win your conference and you're in. If you don't, you get another chance through the selection committee. Most of the last at large selections the past five years have staggered in. The selection committee has had to select amongst many very mediocre teams to fill out the bracket. Adding more mediocrity to the process doesn't make it better. In fact, it makes the regular season even more insignificant.

Third, the biggest argument against a football playoff is the length of the season. Nevermind the fact that most playoff games would be played during winter breaks. The football season runs the course of one semester or one quarter on the academic calendar. Basketball season runs across two semesters and potentially three academic quarters. I know the first week of the tournament is finals week for winter quarter at UC. How does any of that make sense?

Fourth, there's no united clamoring for an expanded NCAA basketball tournament. The 64 works well; three weekends, two games a weekend and site logistics works well for the teams. So let's go ahead and kill the golden goose (another typical liberal trait).

Finally, and maybe most importantly, how are you going to get those expanded NCAA pools on a regular 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper?

This article reminds me of the old joke that the NCAA was so pissed off at Alabama, they game Florida A&M an extra year of probation.

Read the article here......