per Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany.

I just don’t understand the reasoning.  All this will do is further devalue the regular season–which no one pays attention to until January, at this point, anyway–and, the conference tourneys, too, for that matter. 

Money talks, though, and the Powers That Be think more games=more money and bigger TV contracts. Meanwhile, the coaches (naively) think it will result in more job security.  It won’t. Ask all the football coaches in recent years who have taken their teams to middling Bowl games (because all they have to do is win 6 games to qualify) and have been canned.

Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s again explode the myth that a Football Playoff System would result in the ”most worthy” or “true” champion. It wouldn’t. It would result in the most worthy tourney champ that benefitted from matchups, health, getting hot, luck, etc.  That’s fine, but let’s just call it what it is–more exciting, maybe, but no more likely to produce a more worthy champ.

in a recent battle of big heads (it’s a little dated, but interesting, nonetheless).  I agree with Olbermann on this, and had a similar, laugh-out-loud response when I read the Simmons chat in question, but I’m not sure why it made KO’s huge head explode.