Anything this used car salesman is against I am for. He is a big reason the Big 10 has such a bad reputation.

The Big 10 is a big reason why there will never be a play-off system in college football. Allowing Big 10 football teams to not have to play a conference championship makes it easy for teams like Ohio State to go to BCS games every year. The Big 10 is a joke anyway. I honestly agree a little with him though. There is no point of expanding a tournament to allow other teams to get in when they will most likely get bounced in the first round and definitely in the second. No way any team like that would get to the sweet 16 or even win the tournament so it is kinda pointless.

It shouldn't even have 65 teams in this tourney. Knock it back to an even 64. The only reason they have the infamous "play-in game" is to give some power conference's #6 team a shot for the payday (part of which goes back to said power conference).

All this crap about "expanding the tournament" started a couple of years ago when George Mason got an at-large bid and left the ACC with only four teams, and they started crying bloody murder. Of course, the fact that GMU got to the Final Four didn't mean they were worthy of being in the tournament at their expense.

umm..if you expand the tournament the only way its gonna work is if you institute a 128 man system and thats way too many to get in...sportscenter ratings would go down, their time slots would change, march madness wouldnt be a betting spectacle anymore, yes, more teams have a CHANCE to win the title..but yeah..really they dont have a chance at it..those bottom 64 have no chance..NO chance..

and theres not enough money to be passing around to 128 teams at this time with this economy. Theres just no way.

you would have the whole pac-10, the whole big 12, most if not all the big ten and the sec...now add in the mid-level conferences and the low level ones...more teams like north dakota state would be making it..that wouldnt make THEM so historic then would it?

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Originally posted 08:21 AM ET  03.12 by KingFootball

Anything this used car salesman is against I am for. He is a big reason the Big 10 has such a bad reputation.

Once again your streak of moronic bullshyte continues!!! Are they supposed to let 100 teams in now? It's bad enough that teams get in simply for winning their respective conference tourneys, I also question a team that has only ONE conference win getting a bid. Take your I'm okay, you're okay PC crap somewhere else.

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Originally posted 12:40 PM ET  03.12 by The TRUTH

Once again your streak of moronic bullshyte continues!!! Are they supposed to let 100 teams in now? It's bad enough that teams get in simply for winning their respective conference tourneys, I also question a team that has only ONE conference win getting a bid. Take your I'm okay, you're okay PC crap somewhere else.

Nice to see someone actually defending the Big 10 Commissioner. I didn't know people like you existed. Makes me feel much better about myself.

A tool would be someone with nearly 10,000 posts and who changes his location every other day. Or maybe that is just someone with absolutely no social life. Perhaps you should try an online dating service if your social skills aren't getting you anywhere.

I agree with some of the previous discussions of this topic in recent weeks: IF the tournament were expanded (68? 72? 80? 96 teams?) it should be the at-large/big conference teams that stock the play-in round. That should kill the idea pretty quickly. And there's no way it ever goes to 128 teams, because of the logistics of squeezing 64 games into Mon.-Tues. of the first week of the tourney.

As a Big Ten grad, I can't say that Mr. Delany has ever made a positive impression with me (score one for KingFootball). But, I'm not wild about letting more mediocre teams into the tourney each year (even if it means New Mexico misses the Dance this year), so score one for The Truth too!

65 (or 64 depending on how you view it is the perfect amount of teams) and expanding it would ruin one of the greatest sporting events in college basketball

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Yes, please don't expand the field of 65. Because if we do, they MIGHT give bids to the entire Big 10 conference. That would only increase our liklihood of all Big10 leaving by the first weekend of Tourney play every year.

There's a shocker. The guy in charge of a league that "experts" are projecting might get EIGHT teams in, thinks the tourney is fine as it.

This just in - fire is hot!

So it's okay if Minnesota or Ohio State which have no real shot at winning a National Championship get in, but not teams from a mid-major conference.

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Originally posted 04:35 AM ET  03.13 by NIUREDBIRD

There's a shocker. The guy in charge of a league that "experts" are projecting might get EIGHT teams in, thinks the tourney is fine as it. This just in - fire is hot!So it's okay if Minnesota or Ohio State which have no real shot at winning a National Championship get in, but not teams from a mid-major conference.

expanding the fields wouldn't help the mid-majors, only the big-six really...its true that Minn or OSU (if they get in) won't have a real shot to win...so why expand and let in even more teams with no real shot to win? u're crapping on your own statement.