Is there a conspiracy with the NIT and NCAA?

NCAA has cornered the Market for post-season basketball...


     Did the NCAA tank Alabama, Colorado, Boston College, and Miami for the sake of having a better NIT field. It is something to think about. Do I have proof this happened? No, of course not. Do I believe that is what happened? Absolutely.  Other than NCAA talking heads have you spoken to anyone who believes that Alabama doesn't belong in the NCAA. Georgia should have had the character to turn down the NCAA bid and say that 'Bama is a better team. That couldn't happen in today's world. Character is something relegated to the history books. To a lot of younger Americans the term character is a synonym for the word sucker.
  
     That the lack of character started at the top of the food chain and worked it's way down to member institutions is disheartening. The number 2 team in the SEC is not as good as the 11th best in the Big East. Or put it another way. The #2 team in the SEC is not better than the 7th worst team in the Big East. Same can be said for the Big Ten. When the selection committee extends half of the available bids to 2 conferences everyone should sit up and take notice.

     I have a friend who follows the Big Ten. He thinks the NCAA is paying back the SEC for winning so many football championships. LOL, I think. But it is simply ludicrous to give two leagues half of the at large bids to the Tournament. I'm sticking with enhancing the NIT field. Throw in gross stupidity. Maybe the NIT can be for all those baby conferences and mid-majors who elect to play into that field rather than the NCAA.

      How about some real rules. Throw out all this SOS and RPI. It is possible that the best team in America might have a crummy SOS and therefore a less than resplendent RPI.  I'd like to see some rules such as:

1. If you finish in the lower 1/2 of your conference you stay at home.
2. No conference can send more than six schools, and  how about letting the conference decide who goes?
3. Only retired coaches can be on the selection committee.
4. Divide the country into four parts, N,E,W, and South. All the teams in the NCAA field play where the    geography falls. None of this silly sending Duke to California or Arizona because they are a #1 seeds.

5. No school that has a coach suspended or has been on probation for a major violation can participate for    three years. Period.
6. Teams that have low graduation rates can't play. I have no idea what the standard should be, other than there should have one.
7. Teams with seniors should be given preference over one and done schools. It is high time for the NCAA to get back to basics. Collegiate means going to school to me.
8. Each major conference should have a representative in the selection committee but no school may have more than one.
9. But the most sensible solution is just too have one big tournament at the end of the season. All schools get to play. Seed them somehow. There will then be arguments about seeds, but if the best team actually wins they should be able to beat everyone in theory...

Bama by 11 tonight