If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

I'm tired of people complaining in college basketball. I'm tired of people walking around feeling like they have a big X on their back and everyone has it out for them.

Yeah, I'm talking to you Jim Boeheim.

I'm assuming that since you are reading this blog, you care about sports and know all about the NCAA tournament, which tips off this Thursday. But just in case you don't know the NCAA from the NAACP, I'll break it down for you. (Don't worry, I'll dumb it down as best as I can, because some people have to read things five or six times before they truly grasp it.)

The committee selects 64 teams to play for the chance to cut down the nets in San Antonio this year. Well, technically there are 65 teams as there is a play-in game Wednesday night. But let's be honest, those teams have just as much a chance of winning the tournament as I do of growing a full, grown-up beard. (I have my own shaving group on Facebook. Weird isn't it?)

But anyways, as you could expect, the teams who just miss out on making the tournament usually feel like they were cheated. It's an understandable feeling because everyone thinks they are better than what they really are. And this year for example, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and Virginia Tech's Seth Greenberg really think they are getting the shaft.

Boeheim has even gone on to say that he thinks the tournament should be expanded by adding more teams. He thinks it will ease the controversies and make everyone happy.

Really now?

Let's say they made it a 72-team bracket - don't you think team number 73 would be upset they didn't make it? And why stop at 72? Why not just make the bracket filled with every team in D-1? We can call it Delusional December because the tournament would last months. There wouldn't even be a need for a regular season.

I have an idea Jim, maybe if you didn't blow an eleven point lead with three minutes left against Pitt you would be in the tournament. Maybe if you didn't lose to UMass, or Rhode Island or South Florida you would be dancing. Maybe if you paid your players more money and offered them strippers like Ohio State you wouldn't be in the NIT.

Maybe if you were better, and deserved a spot in the tournament you would have gotten one.

It's funny how Boeheim has coached at Syracuse for 31 years and has never once suggested that the tournament should be changed. But suddenly, after not making the dance back-to-back years for the first time in his career, the tournament has to be changed. Why weren't you expressing these opinions when Carmelo Anthony was leading you to a National Championship, Jim?

The fact is the field of 64 is absolutely perfect the way it is. I don't know why people think change is always good.

As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

By the way... Pitt over Tennessee for the National Championship. And yes, that is biased.