Reno Petro

It's become a normal thing.

It's not just like, oh, we're this little sideshow, particularly when you see the success that teams have had that have played in those play-in games going all the way to the Final Four.

And Butler, I think, came from a play-in game all the way to the National Championship game.

So, like, why do you think this will grow the Tuesday and Wednesday?

Could it possibly be exactly what that needs to make it a bigger, you know, event?

Are the teams that are on the outside of the bubble since these conferences have expanded, do we have a stronger Mountain West and the leagues that used to provide two and three teams, Missouri Valley?

If we hadn't had this consolidation, would those teams be in because they would be winning games?

other leagues right like would you know tcu be second in the mountain west and you know and in easy as opposed to sweating it out on the bubble like is this just a market correction for the fact that the conferences have consolidated yeah like a hundred percent that's what it is like you know it's always interesting to like look who really wants this who started this conversation

And I don't like that.

And I think if you're a TCU and you left a Mountain West that you could have won easier and probably had an easier path into the NCAA tournament because you could have played one or two non-con games and then beat up on your league.

and you've taken the bigger payday, well then, okay, take your bigger payday, but now you've lessened your chance to move on.

I mean, I think that's what schools have done in football, and that's why they're now expanding the football playoffs to try to get those schools back in that now are taking on more losses in a tougher conference.

I get all that.

And I would love for the little guys to get more access.

In fact, my dream is to allow the conference champion –

and the tournament champion automatic bids.

And if that team is one and the same, then great.

There's one more extra bid for the at-larges.

We looked it up.

If you employ that system, there were 11 schools that would have been added to the tournament this year, right?