NCAA Sham

There are going to be 3 new members to the NCAA selection committee next year. It will be interesting to see how their respective conferences fare when it comes down to getting an extra bid or two into the tourney for their bubble teams. Wake Forest Athletic Director, Ron Wellman (ACC), Big Sky Conference commissioner Doug Fullerton, and Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe are replacing SEC commissioner Mike Slive, Tom O'connor, George Mason's (CAA) AD, and Chris Hill, Utah's AD (WAC). Not surprisingly, the power conferences are gaining a seat on the committee. Usually the power conferences don't like to allow mid-majors to get their hands in on any decisions that may affect revenue. There are currently 10 members of the selection committee. The current members come from the following conferences: Pac 10, SEC, CAA, Mountain West, Mid-American, Big West, Big 10, Big East, Southland, and Atlantic 10. I would say that is representation from 6 mid to low majors and 4 reps from the big boys. The new configuration next year will make it 5 reps from the power conferences and 5 from the mid to low majors. We see this type of representation in the decision making process with football as well. You would think we would have learned from the British as far as taxation without representation goes with NCAA football. Hopefully, we will one day see a revolt by the non-bcs conferences in football to create a playoff system or at least give a shot to a deserving team like Utah in a national championship game. The NCAA is a sham of a monopoly.