Mark Pope's First Mistake: He Wants To Expand The College Basketball Regular Season To 40 Games, Doesn't Think It Makes Sense To Only Play 31

Mark Pope makes basically no mistakes in my eyes. He's a man who gets it. He's a man who is starting to bring back everything that's awesome being associated with Kentucky basketball. However, this? This is a mistake. Can't be talking about expanding anything in college basketball. We need to shrink college basketball. We need less Division I teams. We need the NCAA Tournament back to 64 before it expands. We for sure don't need to expand the regular season.

The only way and I mean the only way this works is if the extra 9 games are main events. We bring back Bracket Busters for the mid-majors. We get major programs against major programs. Every team has to play rivals from other conferences. That would at least get eyeballs on it. But if we're bringing in buy games? No. Absolutely not. Everyone bitches that the regular season doesn't matter (not true), but it does get hidden. We're blocked by football for a couple months before it's the sprint to March. Here's the other question. When and where do you put these games? We going to 3 a week? We starting the season even earlier? You can't push back the NCAA Tournament because of the Masters. 

Now, it's worth noting Mark Pope is a genius. He doesn't do or say things just to say them. There's a meaning here. I refuse to believe it's just to help players with the next level. That's a Calipari-esque quote. Pope has some deeper meaning here, he just has to because it makes no sense any other way. But, yeah, it's dumb to expand the regular season. 30 games is perfect. That or the next 10 games is to relegate teams so we don't have 364 in Division I.