Gary Parrish

Well, it lands at a different place once you bring Arizona into the league, once it brings Houston into the league.

You get pushed down where you're supposed to finish in the league that you've been a member of.

And so now –

What you used to have to do to make the NCAA tournament is obviously tougher, not necessarily because your coach is any worse or your program is any worse, but because your league decided to bring in programs that start at a better place than you and are better positioned to succeed than you.

So now you're lower in the picking order.

Well, you're still trying to achieve all the same things you were trying to achieve before.

Your fans still expect you to achieve all the things you were achieving before.

But it's harder now because you're in your league.

You're taking losses you otherwise wouldn't take.

Well, how can you still fix it where maybe you end up in the place you were always wanting to end up anyway, the NCAA tournament?

Create more tables in a restaurant.

Think of it like that.

It's a restaurant with tables.

How do you get more people in that restaurant so they can feel like they accomplished something?

Put more tables in the restaurant, more chairs at the table.

That is what we've done, and it is not – do not ever let anybody tell you this.

It's not to give more opportunities to the quote-unquote little guys.

Some little guys will get more opportunities just by definition, but that's not the motivation here.

The motivation is to get the middle of the pack, SEC and Big 10 and Big 12 and ACC programs,

a better opportunity to play in March Madness.