Gary Parrish

I don't know that you are, but we can talk about this from different perspectives because I would disagree, but I don't believe that it's nearly as bad as the people who would vote in my direction insist that it is.

In other words, I believe it's a net negative.

I get the idea of you can make more money and it's more basketball.

What's the point?

But it does.

take away from the end of the regular season, or at least it moves the pass-fail line to a place that is going to take some adjusting to.

But, and this is where I sort of settle into, the idea, even despite everything I said, the idea that expansions,

is going to, quote, kill or destroy college basketball just flies in the face of everything we know about sports because this is not the first time this sport has expanded, and obviously it's not the first time other sports have expanded.

So I know when we went from 64 to 65, some people didn't like that.

When we went from 65 to 68, some people didn't like that.

But we obviously adjusted, and now we think the new magic number is 68, not 76.

To your point, we'll adjust again.

and it'll be fine, but we will have to adjust.

And the quote-unquote bubble games that we typically get excited about in late February and early March, those are now going to be between a couple of Big 12 teams that are combined seven games under .500 in their conference,

or apply the same standard to the SEC.

So I would do without it.

I would rather go backwards, but I'm smart enough to know we're never doing that.

I didn't need this, but to your point, it's not the worst thing in the world.

Here's the truth.

Most people don't even pay attention to the thing on Tuesday and Wednesday anyway, but on Thursday at some point early in the day,