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[QUOTE="Orangezoo, post: 5102731, member: 237"]
Making the playoffs and making the NCAA tourney are progressive goals that programs and franchises share and matter. Everyone wants to win a title but milestones matter to programs and fans alike. I think people dismiss that too quickly. The point I was making is that with the play in- the NBA has taken the directional step to expansion. That’s the comparison. Folks are taking this too deep. You have casual fans and hardcore fans but the analysis of casual fans on here is biased towards their own preferences vs rooted in the bigger picture.

The transfer portal has illuminated just how much talent there is outside the top 50 programs in the country. So the talent is there even if it’s a couple years behind making the jump to a P5 as we see many doing. This, with clearly a wider base of talent, the trends in the sport highlighting more post season participation and the fan support behind it render the  argument for not expanding stale at this point. Not to mention the more we encourage consolidation the more it’s likely that collegiate sports die off more rapidly into the sunset into semi pro leagues.

Adding more teams adds to the randomness. I’d love to see this get bumped when expansion is approved and folks are enjoying the extra games and an entire extra week of madness.
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