The most exciting and sad time of the year

This is a great time of year, conference tournaments have ended and selection Sunday has come and gone and the best sporting event in the country is about to start.

Sadly it's also a season of firing some pretty good coaches and showing the irrationality of the system that values the monetary rewards of getting to the NCAA tournament over the values and true purpose of collegiate athletics, education. Already heads have been chopped. Coaches at smaller schools who don't make the tournament are losing their jobs after going .500 or better over their career.

Seriously, does anyone expect UC-Irvine to be a dominant tournament team? If they were their coach would obviously be courted by higher level teams and would leave. Instead a man who goes over 500 for his career is let go.

It's no wonder the NCAA coaches want to expand the tournament, it's a simple matter of job security.