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Charlie Baker's NCAA Expansion Plan Faces Criticism
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6/3/2025
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Let me ask you about Charlie Baker now and his plans to change the NCAA field.
00:06
What is it, 72 or 77?
00:09
70, what is it?
00:10
I can't keep track of all that matter.
00:11
77 would be interesting.
00:13
Yeah, it's either 72 or 76, and neither is necessary, neither is warranted,
00:18
and neither is wanted by the public.
00:21
What it is, it's wanted by insecure power conference commissioners
00:25
that don't believe that with an abundance of teams, 18, 16, whatever the number is,
00:31
that they can get enough teams in, so they want to expand it.
00:34
And the problem with that, Scott, is that the SEC just walked in the door,
00:37
and, hey, it was Greg Sankey who started this a couple of years back,
00:41
two, three years back, who started this whole process,
00:44
and then SEC walks in in year one of a 16-team conference
00:48
and puts 14 teams in the field.
00:50
So it's not about whether there's enough bids.
00:52
It's about whether you're good enough.
00:53
The SEC hasn't been good enough for a very long time,
00:57
and that's why they went way down in bids.
00:59
And the SEC had their best season ever in terms of depth of the league,
01:04
and they get rewarded with 14 bids.
01:07
It doesn't help the tournament to expand it.
01:10
The public doesn't want it.
01:13
The television networks don't want to pay for it.
01:16
The only people that really want it are coaches who think it will help
01:20
prolong their jobs, which they're not correct,
01:22
as we just saw Tom Thibodeau in the NBA got fired for making the conference finals.
01:28
You're not going to keep your job if you're the 68th or 72nd team.
01:33
It's not going to help.
01:34
So that's just a fantasy.
01:36
And then the people like Brett Yormark who think that this is the ticket
01:40
to the big 12 getting an abundance of bids.
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