The NCAA tournament always draws an inordinate amount of critical interest about how much money is involved in college athletics, but the fact remains that however excessive basketball can become, the only real villain in college sport is football. Football continues to throw everything out of whack.
Football is too expensive.
It requires too many student bodies. It's all fool's gold, too. Whereas a reasonable number of colleges can at least break even on men's basketball, only a tiny handful of huge universities profit off football. Rather, the sports that are axed invariably blame women for their misfortune. If we just didn't have to be equal and let those silly girls play their little games . . .