https://x.com/franfraschilla/status/1803573315736330311
This makes sense to me.
As long as itâs minimal tampering since it looks like Sankey is going to get his way on this. Still stinks! 
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They are going to end up expanding until all the smaller conference winners have to play each other first in play on games.
Painter said ânah, weâre good.â
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For those old enough to remember the âPoint / Counterpointâ segment that used to end each weekâs episode of 60 Minutes on CBS, sort of a modern day version between Matt Norlander and Ken Pomerory as concerns NCAAT expansion:
First, Norlander with the âdonât mess with itâ side of things:
While Pomerory more amenable to expansion:
https://x.com/kenpomeroy/status/1803883161484693511
https://x.com/kenpomeroy/status/1803887790750601691
And Kevin Sweeney getting his 2 cents in as well:
Exactly. SEC commissioner said it out loud last year then his teams promptly lost to âmid majorsâ.
They just donât get it. The reason people watch the tournament is to FINALLY see smaller schools get a chance to play bigger schools AND beat them.
They are pricing out through NIL and revenue sharing and changing pre and post season tournament formats to kill any school not in the âPower 4â.
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Iâm all for expanding the tourney. More to watch and helps our chances to ever make it again. Whatâs the downside?
The down side is I absolutely see them putting all the smaller conference teams against each other in basically opening round play in games and eliminating half of that field before the real tournament begins. And then when it does the 1 bid conference teams will have already played before having to go up against a rested p2/p4 team. Just another way of making it even more difficult for a non brand to crash their party.
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There was some commentary probably posted earlier in the thread about keeping all of the autobids in the 64 team field and making the at larges do the play in games.
IMHO, thatâs entirely fair. If theyâre enlarging the tournament just to give bad power conference teams a bid, then let them play each other on Tuesday night.
Pushing all the mid majors in midweek play in games will be the end of the NCAA tournament for me. I used to take those 2 days off. Now I barely care. This would be the final nail for me and my entire family. We will all check out.
Power conferences - win the battle, lose the war. Yet again.
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