The lie is pretending that the have-nots have a chance. They do, but only by definition. The results have shown a natural separation, and that's the important part. Everyone covering their eyes, pretending there isn't a natural separation.
There are separations in each conference. And there's a national separation.
All I'm advocating for is to recognize it exists and to set up the system that way. If San Jose State, Memphis, and Buffalo aren't on equal footing with Ohio St, USC, and Texas, then stop pretending they are by having them in the same system.
If SJST, Memphis, and Buffalo were on actual equal footing, THEN I wouldn't make sense. And from the basketball results over 30 years, it looks like they should do the same there....that a ticket to the dance isn't worth very much at all. It's just that the hopeful keep pretending there's hope, when actually there is none.
The argument seems to be, if you have not won the whole shebang, then you should not be a part of the proceeding. It's odd, because if such a team does win, you'd be telling us how it's a case of a team like those 9-7 New York Giants, just hot at the right time.
This is college sports. It's unbalanced by nature. I guess you could split it up into two, three or four different titles, but why would you? I don't think anyone is pretending one half isn't better than the other, they just don't care. And the weirdest part is the only ones who seem to really care are the ones that seem so frightfully offended to just put those small schools into an arena where the natural separation would take its course. If the big teams don't need to be protected from the small teams, why in the hell does it matter?
If 36 years of winning is all we need to upend a system, why stop at this level? Every conference has imbalance. Three SEC teams have never won a conference title, throw em out. Shoot, UF didn’t win one for its 52 years in the SEC, and needed seven more years to win one without cheating. Vandy is never gonna win the SEC, and if you tried to throw them out, they’d pitch a damn fit.
I mean, “a ticket to the dance isn't worth very much at all”? That’s ridiculous. Go to any of the athletes at your school and ask if it’s worth something to go to state, even if they’re gonna get wiped. It’s pretty obvious what the answer is.