65+32+16=Stop it, already

[93Devil]

OK, this might work is they did the following...

Four DI teams (preferably a major conference team that finished very poorly, like a Penn State for example)
Four DII teams
Four NAIA teams
Four DIII teams

I would watch that.

 

[trifectarich]

Zagoshe: Your math is OK, but like my mother used to tell me on those occasions when I did something idiotic, "Just because everyone else does it, that doesn't mean you have to do it, too."

There's no league where 50 percent of the teams deserve to qualify for the playoffs. Never has been, never will be. Of course, when you keep everyone "alive" for the playoffs, then the fans stay excited longer, they buy tickets because their team is in a "playoff" race, etc., etc. It's all contrived.

 

[funky_mountain]

for the record, 12 teams in the NFL make the playoffs. four division winners, two wild cards from each conference.

 

[Seahawk]

Zag,

I see you point about other leagues. However, most college basketball conferences also have conference tournaments that are considered postseason play.

If you are talking about simply qualifying for postseason play (which in most cases leads to a chance to play for the national title), than the percentage of college hoops teams that qualify for the postseason is already far greater than in any professional sport.

 

[hondo]

And Eastern Michigan still won't make the field.

Boo-****in-hoo.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Evansville!
Northwestern!
Tonight on ESPN U!

 

[Captain_Kirk]

So, we can have 113 schools in postseason basketball tournaments, but we can't find a way to allow 8 to play in a football playoff?

 

[Clerk Typist]

The NCAA almost has to sanction this, or face an antitrust suit, given that it bought the NIT from the MBIA to kill off the MBIA's antitrust suit. And the NCAA doesn't do well when antitrust suits get to trial stage.
By the way, there was a third postseason tournament for a year or two in the 1970s. The Conference Commissioner's Tournament was held, I think, in Kansas City.

 

[Starman]

The NCAA almost has to sanction this, or face an antitrust suit, given that it bought the NIT from the MBIA to kill off the MBIA's antitrust suit. And the NCAA doesn't do well when antitrust suits get to trial stage.
By the way, there was a third postseason tournament for a year or two in the 1970s. The Conference Commissioner's Tournament was held, I think, in Kansas City.

The CCI went belly-up after two seasons.

The NCAA will simply refuse to sanction the new tournament.

Schools participating in non-sanctioned competititons are subject to heavy penalties, including loss of scholarships, TV money, and bans from future NCAA tournament play.

Nobody will dare to challenge them. That's how the NCAA works.

 

[wickedwritah]

The NCAA will get taken to court, Starman, and they will lose.

 

[ondeadline]

The NCAA almost has to sanction this, or face an antitrust suit, given that it bought the NIT from the MBIA to kill off the MBIA's antitrust suit. And the NCAA doesn't do well when antitrust suits get to trial stage.
By the way, there was a third postseason tournament for a year or two in the 1970s. The Conference Commissioner's Tournament was held, I think, in Kansas City.

If I remember correctly, the Conference Commissioners Tournament was held at a time when only one team from each conference could make the NCAA tournament and the NIT still was something worth winning. But if you finished second in your league and you were in one of the top leagues, you had to go to this tournament instead of the NIT.

The big positive? Bob Knight got pissed when his team had to play in the event one year.

 

[Starman]

The NCAA will get taken to court, Starman, and they will lose.

Oh no they won't, because if that were true, then within about the next 37 minutes, about 10,000 NCAA student-athletes would sue the NCAA on the grounds that the NCAA has no authority to restrict how much money they can earn, what they can earn it for, and who they can earn it from (i.e. if Billy Bob Boosterboy wants to pay Tommy Tailback $1,000 a day to keep seaweed out of his yard in Austin, Texas, who the hell is the NCAA to say he can't?), in fact all of these things represent blatant restraint of trade, free enterprise, labor laws and economic self-determination.

Those suits always get slapped down (in fact, nobody much bothers to bring them anymore) because the NCAA is part of Established Authority (aka Big Money), and the courts in this country pretty much exist to kiss the ass of Established Authority (aka Big Money) and slap the **** out of anyone who tries to screw with it. Just think about who's been appointing the judges for 30 of the last 42 years.

 

[thejuggernaut]

At long last we'll know who the 98th best team is in college basketball.

 

[Blitz]

I hate this idea.
We've got enough postseason slots already.
Somebody make them cancel their plans. Please.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Hey hey hey, these teams try just as hard as the ones in the NCAA tourney. They deserve this recognition.

 

[Point of Order]

Is this for men's basketball, women's basketball, or both?

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

And Eastern Michigan still won't make the field.

Sweet Sixteen appearances: Eastern Michigan 1, Western Michigan 0.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Anything that gets South Carolina Upstate into postseason play is A-OK with me!

 

[wickedwritah]

Is this for men's basketball, women's basketball, or both?

I thought women's basketball wasn't a real sport?

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Anything that gets South Carolina Upstate into postseason play is A-OK with me!

This is Upstate's first year of Division I. I don't believe they will be eligible for the NCAA postseason until 2012.