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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5103215, member: 5685"]
Again you are avoiding the questions.

No, worse teams did not get in as at larges in the 80s. If you have more at larges now (and a ton more if you expand), how can you have worse teams in the 80s? It was harder to make the NCAAs back then.

Saying we need to expand for Indiana State is the complete opposite of saying we need to expand to appease the P5. So you are now saying we need to expand for the P5 (which you did NOT start out with) and while we are at it we can throw a bone to the little guys?

No matter what you premise is, one can opine that expanding is worse for the sport. Even if you accept that 68 teams is dead as a truth, one can still feel that expanding is worse for the sport. It won't be better even though it is a requirement to move forward. So why argue against that? Why say it is inevitable and one cannot dislike that fact?

And I think you are way overstating the threat of a P5 only tournament. There are only 79 teams you cannot have a 64 team field that way.

Personally I rather see a 40 team P5 only tournament than see a 96 team NCAAT where last year's FSU team gets an at large bid. So saying expand or die, I chose death.
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