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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1223619, member: 289"]
You're confusing TV ratings with "meaning". So college basketball doesn't have as many fans nationally as football or professional sports. So what? Are the regular season games meaningless to college basketball fans?

A lot of things besides winning a national championship give games meaning. There are rivalries, some close exciting games, caring aobut your team and hoping they will improve, watching good players play. football and basketball were played for eyars before there were any championships or bowl games. people must have found meaning in them. If you choose to say that what happens in March is all that matters, that's your choice. Not mine.

And how long you have between football games has nothing to do with it. The argument is that a sport is better off with a limited playoff so the regular season will have more meaning. We've found this year that expanding the football playoff gave more regular season games meaning, not less. And even more would have meaning with an 8 team playoff. The tipping point is in a professional league that has 30 teams and 16 of them make the playoffs. It's not when 8 teams out of 125 make the playoffs. D3 has a 32 team playoff in a 242 team division. What did that "kill"?
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