The NCAA Basketball tournament does it again. A great tournament with underdogs and upsets and the top two teams in the country still end up playing for the title. What an event.
I know something about the pain of upsets, being a Syracuse fan, who watched my OrangeMEN (I deny the name change) get bounced by Vermont...VERMONT.
Anyway. Year after Year March Madness delivers. It's never anti-climatic like the SuperBowl where you have a boring game every other year. The Final Four and the Championship game is always close. The last blow out was in 1990 when UNLV (with it's roster of the finest professional college players) beat Duke by 30.
Even with the drain on college hoops by High Schoolers turning pro and even mediocre players leaving school early, the tournament is still the best month in American sports.
Why the NCAA doesn't see the GOLDMINE that a Football tournament would be...this country would stop for those games. Imagine a 16 team tournament where say Utah goes up against #1 USC. Not a person outside of Los Angeles wouldn't be a Utes fan on that day. I get excited just thinking about it.
The presidents can continue their lies about Student-Athletes, but a 16 team tournament could be set up to end on Jan 1. You limit the regular season games to 11 and start the playoffs after 2 weeks. The other teams could still go to their ridiculous unattended bowl games during that time, but would it really hurt if a 6-5 Wake Forest Team didn't play a 6-5 Iowa St team? Would America suffer? But, they could play if they wanted to keep the meaningless bowls.
Despite what people say, College Football does have a tournament, unfortunately the field is comprised of two often controversially selected teams. if you go to 16, no team with a legitimate claim to the title will be ignored. Sure, Bowling Green might be 12-0, but they are NOT going to beat Miami and USC on consecutive weekends. And if they do...how freaking great would that be????
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the tournament, even as 98% of you lost your pools and even more of you didn't see YOUR TEAM win.
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