Gary Parrish

They've doubled it, but they've done it in little increments where –

it wasn't enough at any point to make you blink.

But if you look up eventually, it's way different than what it used to be.

That is what they're going to do with the NCAA tournament.

They're going to do it in small, small numbers so that you go, I don't like this, but it'll be fine.

I don't like this, but we'll be okay.

And eventually you'll look up and the thing that you would have said, this is not okay.

Because it'll take them three steps to get there.

You'll say it's okay every single time, but then you'll look up eventually and you're at the number you're talking about.

So that's where we're going.

In terms of how would I like it?

I like your idea, but like you acknowledged, that's just not the way this is going to go because they're not creating more spots.

for the little guys.

They're happy to have the little guys involved, but they do not want to make this better for them.

They want to make it better for the power four, specifically the SEC and the Big Ten.

So my compromise would be, all right, let's go to whatever number you want to go to.

But every automatic qualifier is in the 64-team bracket Thursday, Friday they're playing.

They don't have to play into the main bracket.

They get seated wherever they're seated on Thursday, Friday, and all of the extra at-large bids, they're the ones duking it out on Tuesday, Wednesday to try to get into the main bracket.

In other words, that's where you would have –