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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5103257, member: 5685"]
It happens every year. We are diverging from the main point.

There are currently 79 Power 5 schools.

-Right now those 79 schools get 5 auto bids and make up the majority of the 36 at large bids.

-If you expand to 76 NCAAT teams, those 79 schools get 5 auto bids and will make up the majority of the 44 at large bids. Is that not easier?

-If you expand to 96 NCAAT teams, those 79 schools get 5-10 auto bids and will make up the majority of the 32-64 at large bids. Is that not even easier?

-I am not going to go back and look at every year so let us use 1987 for the fun of it. The 79 current P5 schools combined for 35 NCAAT bids. That is about the same amount (some years are more, some years are less) of teams that they get under the 68 team NCAAT. So it is on par. Not harder, not easier. But it was certainly harder than a 76+ NCAAT will be. BTW last year they combined for only 33 bids. So that means 1987 was easier, as was 1985 when they combined for 34 bids.

I get that the entire D1 universe is a lot bigger than it used to be. But the realistic at large universe is basically the same in the 1980s as it is today. So there is no reason to add at large teams.

If one wants to argue that adding regular season conference champs is needed to be more inclusive of the entire D1 universe, I would applaud that. But that is not realistic as the P5 would completely block it. They would want an equal amount of at larges bids to offset that expansion. And that I am against.
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