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Hmm, the "it's something good for the players" idea.

I happen to think being "conference tournament champions" and winning your last game in a triumphant moment is better than celebrating an automatic bid to be destroyed in your last game ever (for a vast majority of these guys) by a 2 seed on national TV. 

But I'm probably wrong.

How many teams have declined their bid?

Is that what we want though??

It's poker. As long as you have a chip and a chair, you're alive. Long odds are better than no odds.

I'll never say those NY Giants were the best football team in the NFL that season. But they sure as hell earned the title of Champion. They beat the 18-0 Patriots on the field.

It's an opportunity no matter the seed. The lottery is an opportunity too, people still play and have fun.

The lottery is a tax on the poor.  The people with the least amount of disposable income spend the most on impossible odds.  This is the worst thing you could've mentioned.

What did you think you were watching? This is an entertainment product that exists in a large scale way to make money.

Poll and rankings are entertainment product to make money. Every iteration of postseason College football has been entertainment product to make money. Just because this is the most functionally pure type of competition, it really seems to confuse people.

It is not an entertainment product - it's only ballooned out to become a money-making monster.  
But football could be, and once upon a time was, just another sport with anonymous players.......a women's lacrosse, if you will.  And if no one came to watch them play, they'd still play, have a winner and a loser, and still keep stats.  

As long as the competition side of things exists and matters and isn't lost, yes, people want to watch.  But just because a sport is bastardized into a money-making cow doesn't stop this from being true.  
You set up a framework in which the regular season is irrelevant and you've routinely got .500 teams being crowned champion, and you'll find the stands empty.

We're not there yet, but it's trending that way, across sports.

The lottery is a tax on the poor.  The people with the least amount of disposable income spend the most on impossible odds.  This is the worst thing you could've mentioned.

???

Are you saying the NCAA tourney is a tax on the poor? That the teams that are there are somehow being harmed by being there? Your whole point seems to be that Wright State thinks they will win the national championship and is somehow the victim of fraud. This is...probably not correct.

It is not an entertainment product - it's only ballooned out to become a money-making monster. 
But football could be, and once upon a time was, just another sport with anonymous players.......a women's lacrosse, if you will.  And if no one came to watch them play, they'd still play, have a winner and a loser, and still keep stats. 

As long as the competition side of things exists and matters and isn't lost, yes, people want to watch.  But just because a sport is bastardized into a money-making cow doesn't stop this from being true. 
You set up a framework in which the regular season is irrelevant and you've routinely got .500 teams being crowned champion, and you'll find the stands empty.

We're not there yet, but it's trending that way, across sports.

Yes, it should be pure, like NCAA Women's Lacrosse...

...which hosted a 42-team tournament to determine its champion in 2021
which hosted a 42-team tournament to determine its champion in 2021.

I can tolerate the NCAA Tourney bashing, but I'll be damned if I am going to stand for all of this women's lacrosse bashing.

I thought that’s why you watch lacrosse, when they use the sticks the bash each other