You see every Big 12 coach voting for a 24-team playoff and I think back to what Coach Sullivan used to tell us in the old Southwest Conference days. He'd say you earn your shot by beating the man in front of you, not by begging for a bigger bracket. We had some dandy battles back then, real blood and guts football where you knew every single snap mattered because one loss could cost you the whole season. Now they want to let everybody in so nobody has to feel left out. Its like handing out participation trophies to a bunch of kids who never learned what it meant to fight for something. The game has changed and not for the better.