Why I Hate NCAA Men’s Bracket Pools

Happy day after Spring Forward Day everyone, I’m sure like me you’re dead tired no matter what time you went to bed, me, right after The Walking Dead.  Oh and yeah, yesterday was also Selection Sunday, if you’re into that.  Which I kind of am.  The first two rounds of the March Madness Tournament are so much fun, and we usually get treated to a top-tier team getting beaten by some school we’ve never heard (You get’em, George Mason!).  Anyways, you know what I’m not a fan of?  Office Brackets, and here’s why?  *Yeah I know I didn’t do my little don’t take me seriously, blah blah blah, but I don’t really hate Brackets (yet) but they’re slowly eating away at my soul.

The Dumbest Person in Your Office Always Wins:  There was a time I took this shit seriously, I was in several pools.  I did some deep dives into the mid-majors so I could figure out who had the best chance of an upset.  I put in the time, I read a shit ton of articles and all of that and was ready to dominate the office pool.  Then by the third round, someone like Kentucky or Duke lays a fucking egg and my bracket is ruin, meanwhile, Jan from accounting who picked teams based on the mascots has a damn near perfect bracket.  Fuck you Jan and fuck your bracket.

NCAA is Cowtowing to Gamblers:  The NCAA added in a play in round not to prevent some bubble team from getting screwed over, no, it’s so gamblers have one more round to gamble on, not to mention to fuck over your bracket.  Two mid-majors in a play in game weeds out probably half the brackets right there.

Talk of Expanding the Field:  64 seemed perfect (maybe was perfect) and now it’s 65 which isn’t terrible, but it still feel is dumb.  There was been talk of expanding it into the 80’s, even 128?  Really?  Yep, and it’s fucking crazy.  128 teams?  Might as well expand it to every college at that point.  That’s just too many teams to keep up with and for me to write in a bracket or using too many click down boxes on the internet.

The Field Got Leaked:  Part of the drama of the whole damn Tournament is selection Sunday, but sadly the field got leaked on Twitter and spoiled all of that.  At first, there was skepticism, but as the leak was proven right teams realized it was true and started their prep right there.  There were no roars of players for teams on the bubble, they already knew their fate.   One more piece of the fun stolen from us, thanks, modern world that makes everything so easy, why do you have to ruin everything?

So now you’re probably asking yourself, Josh (if that’s your real name, it’s not) will you be filling out a bracket, and I say on to you… maybe.  Really I don’t know, I don’t really care anymore.  I’ll probably do a free one or two online in hopes of winning money so I can walk into the office, Stone Cold Stun Jan (that bitch) and drink beer while security escorts me out of the building because that’s how I roll.

So you can disagree with me all you like and I assure you that you’re wrong, but that’s Why I Hate strongly disagree with the NCAA Men’s Bracket Pools.  Also, peons, be sure to follow me on Twitter and Instagram (@jomac006), check out my other website Clash of the Nerds, like and subscribe to my YouTube channel (videos uploaded weekly?  or when I get around to it) and I guess you should like this site as well, though that last part isn’t a requirement.  And lastly, ladies, I’m sorry I’m no longer on Tinder, might as well go full lesbo because you’re not going to meet a man like me, so really, what’s the point?

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