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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1296851" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>The NCAA tournament is the thing that everyone stops working to watch on Thursday and Friday, and for which everyone fills out 64-team brackets.</p><p></p><p>The games on Tuesday and Wednesday create no national interest and don't really matter, and exist only as an experiment in lining the pockets of the arrogant, immoral, fan-hating bureaucrats who run the sport. If that's the conclusion of your participation, you were not in the NCAA tournament. You ARE out.</p><p></p><p>Just one guy's hot take. I understand that there's a chronologically reversed view in which you succeeded in the contest of "the bubble", which is another well-established highly publicized thing that has meaning and emotional resonance to fans. That's a fine counterargument.</p><p></p><p>The distance created between those two ideas by the First Four is cruel and stupid, that's my ultimate conviction here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1296851, member: 527609"] The NCAA tournament is the thing that everyone stops working to watch on Thursday and Friday, and for which everyone fills out 64-team brackets. The games on Tuesday and Wednesday create no national interest and don't really matter, and exist only as an experiment in lining the pockets of the arrogant, immoral, fan-hating bureaucrats who run the sport. If that's the conclusion of your participation, you were not in the NCAA tournament. You ARE out. Just one guy's hot take. I understand that there's a chronologically reversed view in which you succeeded in the contest of "the bubble", which is another well-established highly publicized thing that has meaning and emotional resonance to fans. That's a fine counterargument. The distance created between those two ideas by the First Four is cruel and stupid, that's my ultimate conviction here. [/QUOTE]
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