Quote Originally Posted by klak View Post
I believe the market analysis showed that the NCAA would more than double their money by doing just an 8 game playoff. The catch is that money would be divided among EVERYONE instead of just to the Big 6 conferences. It would still be an overall increase, but then the Big 6 start to lose a little bit of power.
This is the key. You have a playoff in basketball where they see mid majors like VCU coming up and getting a chance to embarrass them. It evens the score just a bit and the Big 6 can't have that.