Gary Parrish

We're going to start what will be at that point a 64-team bracket, and we'll all enjoy it the same way we always do.

I think by definition, it grows it like there's more of it and it will start earlier.

And there is something about mainstream sports on television on weekdays that we kind of like just because it's so unusual.

Like, you know, later on today, you might get a baseball game somewhere.

But mostly, you know, in the weekdays in college basketball, we don't have games on during the day.

that's a Saturday and Sunday thing, but this Tuesday and Wednesday, because of the expanded bracket, you're going to have to play these games earlier.

So we're going to have daytime basketball in a time of the year where people get excited about daytime basketball.

So, and then, you know, some of these are going to be power conference brands.

Like they're not going to be good basketball teams.

We don't have to lie to each other, but they're going to be big brands that have fans and alums.

And so, yeah, people are going to pay more attention to it.

I think the,

The part that the detractors really point to, and this is where I would agree with them, is that we have adjusted our minds to what a quote-unquote NCAA tournament at-large team looks like.

And we're going to have to adjust to what that looks like.

Right now, it is kind of understood, outside of a place like Kentucky or North Carolina, where the standards are so high,

If you're like at a middle of the pack cap power for basketball program and you go to the NCAA tournament, you're not at risk of losing your job.

You're probably getting a contract extension for the most part.

We are now going to be living in a world where at the exact same time, Joe Lenardi or any other bracketologist is telling us on television that this power for school is on the right side of the bubble, like last four in and,

that same school will have fans that are on message boards trying to figure out who their next coach is going to be because they're so disappointed that their team is this bad.

But that this bad team is going to end up in the NCAA tournament.