Quote Originally Posted by morsdraconis View Post
But, that year, the highly ranked teams all lost early. Pretty good indication to me that their ranks were inflated in my mind and, yet again, a perfect example of how a playoff system is FAR superior to anything else that the NCAA has trotted out in an attempt to have a champion.
What it indicates is that the only games that really matter in CBB are the ones after the regular season is concluded. UConn finished 9th in the Big East (9-9 in it's conference). They got hot in the conf tourny, and continued that hot streak thru the NCAA's to the title. In other words, the 2010-11 MBB regular season was even more pointless and meaningless than it usually is...and that's saying something.

Quote Originally Posted by morsdraconis View Post
Rankings are subjective and, more than anything, based on past performances more than current achievements. At least a playoff system including 8-16 teams would give teams that don't have the ability to live off of other teams' success in that conference for the ability to win the thing that every college player wants to achieve.
Even if it means sacrificing the thing that sets cfb apart from all other sports?