FA Cup Meets March Madness

The NCAA Basketball Tournament... March Madness they call it. Yeah it's mad alright, in a cash register ka-chinging kinda way! As we all know we can boil down college athletics these days to just a bunch of corporate suits exploiting small town hicks and inner city gang-bangers resulting in a whole lot of people getting rich. Yeah I know, they've got the Title IX tax, mustn't marginalize the women you know. But hey, there's plenty of money to go around so WTF? Well fine goddammit, it's the way of the world, I get it. But can't they at least TRY to make it just a little more fair? You know, for appearances sake?

Anyway I have a suggestion which I unfortunately can't take credit for but sounds promising. Let's do away with seeding. That's right, get rid of the automatic number 1 vs. number 'ain't got a fuqing chance'. Adopt the FA method, put all the names in a hat and have a draw.

Now the big schools will complain of course. Their argument will be that they should be rewarded for their magnificent accomplishment of going 30-2 in one of the most highly competitive conferences in the US blah, blah, blah. Yeah right! They want an advantage when they already have every advantage under the Sun. Right now it's like the Tournament is run by the Harvard admissions office. The draw I propose would 'democratize' things with no more free rides for the 1%ers. Yes yes Carolina might have to play Duke in the first round. OMG the horror! But then again we might get a Murray State that wins a couple, finds their tournament legs and actually plays up to potential. We might actually end of with a Final Four that doesn't include the same twenty or thirty national powers that have been national powers for the past fifty friggin' years.

But, as in politics it's all about money and power, so will it happen? Not a chance in hell. Nobody with a stake in this methodical madness wants a Murray State vs. St. Mary's final.