Automatic bids ruin the tournament

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa.................. we won our conference tournament and are going to get spanked in the first round.

As much as I dislike the WIAC it is an absolute crime that they don't have 4 or 5 teams in the tournament every year. I don't think a National Champion has been left out of this years field, as usually happens, but how many teams are in that don't belong? Half of them if you ask me.

D1 has all the money so nobody complains about first round mismatches there but in D3 where it isn't always a National Championship teams get screwed because it is inconvenient for the NCAA to invite them. St. Joke Fisher is a good example. Their undefeated run is impressive but I find it hard to believe they would be better than a .500 team if they played in a real conference. 25-0 vs. nobody. 15-10 if they are in the Midwest or Heartland Conference.

Expanding the field next year does not improve anything. I say do away with automatic bids and cut the field in half. Make all games count and put strength of schedule as an important criteria. If you're going to have a National Championship then make it national. Winning conference A should not guarantee an invite if conference B has more teams that would wipe the floor with conference A teams.

"The Roop" plan calls for a state by state ranking. The Top Ten in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania all get automatic (Pool A) bids. That makes 50 so any other teams will have to qualify through Pool C criteria. The only Pool B bids will be if a 3-22 team somehow wins their conference tournament. 6-22 yea, we're in, Git R Done.

I'm sure that Puget Sound has a nice team this year but they don't fit in the WI, IL, OH, NY or PA criteria, therefore, they WILL NOT win a championship. Look at a map and you will see where all the Champions come from. Did Lawrence and Ripon just play the National Championship Game? No. But I guarantee that Ripon would win more games in the tournament than St. John Fisher will. SJF wins a game or two and gets some kind of banner to display in their arena, yet Ripon gets nothing despite being the better team

"The Roop" is almost to the point of saying that maybe the NAIA way of inviting everybody is better. But. The NCAA would seed it wrong anyway. Invite everybody and we would see Illinois Wesleyan at UW-Stevens Point tomorrow. Personally "The Roop" thinks that IWU and UW-SP should play a game. The winner gets a play-in game to the D1 Tournament and the loser gets a bye and hosts a game in the D2 Tournament.

Buena Vista............................... Isn't that mascot degrading to the women on the women's team?????

I suppose the D1 equivalent is South Carolina. The Lady Cocks......... Yeah, that's nice.

When any of you has determined that "The Roop" is wrong about anything, please let me know.................