Jim Delany: Tournament Expansion "Probable"

So the fix is in! The NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is going to expand. Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany is saying that the expansion will probably happen after the April 26th; when the NCAA Board of Directors have their meeting.
The problem is when is enough going to be enough. Below I've posted a video from Wisconsin's very own "The Onion" about the expansion; well the future expansion. But the video points out an important fact; when will we stop?
The problem is whatever the field is going to be...you will always have the team that thinks they got snubbed. You're going to have a team like Illinois who were just on the outside looking in. You're always going to have the team that people don't think should be there. Expanding the tournament will do nothing good for the tournament itself...except the pockets of the NCAA.
The NCAA Tournament is the number one revenue source for the NCAA every year. With the contract with CBS drawing to an end the NCAA must find a way to keep it going, and CBS wants more games plus more revenue.
If the NCAA expands the tournament though, where's the excitement? What happens to office pools? What happens to Cinderella? And what do conference championship tournaments really mean?
Conference tournament finals are perhaps one of the greatest events in college sports, and I'm not talking about the big ones like the Big Ten or the Big East. I'm talking about the small ones; the ones that really matter. You have a team playing in a real gym, not Conseco Fieldhouse. You have real fans, and students. And most importantly you have players that are playing for one thing to get to the NCAA Tournament. Where does all that go if the NCAA expands the tournament? Down the tubes.
There will be nothing special about those tournaments anymore. Those kids will be playing to be part of the best 96 teams out there. They may not even get to play one of the big boys, like a Duke or Kansas. They will have to play another game just to get to the next level. And what does this say about the "major" conferences.
It says that they are afraid of what is happening this year; Butler is in the Final Four. They are afraid of the next George Mason. They are just trying to lock up a bye week; to stick a wrench in the tires of the "mid-major" conferences.
Let's be honest here. There already is a tournament for the big boys to get their way into the NCAA Tournament; it's called the regular season. Teams that refuse to go out and play anyone in non-conference, Virginia Tech, or teams that stumble down the stretch, Illinois, will be left sitting on the sidelines. And that's where they belong.
The sad thing is that this will cheapen the tournament. People will tune out and the tournament will lose the magic of March Madness. Look at the tournament we're having this year, Butler is playing in the Final Four just seven miles from home. A school of less that 5,000 students with a shot at the national title. That's what makes March Madness great, not Jim Boeheim looking lock his job up until the end of time, and definitely not the NCAA trying to cash in on another big pay day.
Lastly if you want more proof that the tournament works just fine the way it is, just look at where Boeheim is right now; at home. Butler who knocked off his Syracuse squad is in the Final Four, and is the story of the tournament. I guess the expansion came too late this year Jim. Maybe next year you won't run into Butler, and it will be you in the Final Four. But God I hope not.