Jon Wilner on Tournament Expansion, Football Playoff, Hate on Huskies

About this episode

Jon Wilner discusses NCAA Tournament expansion, football playoff changes, and the criticism of the Huskies.

Jon Wilner of The San Jose Mercury News joins Softy and Dick Fain to talk about the reported NCAA Tournament expansion that is coming for next year, the play-in games’ locations, the financial and job-security reasons behind the change, what the future of college sports will look like, the football playoff changes, and being down on the Dawgs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Softy, Dick Fain

Guest: Jon Wilner

Topics covered

• NCAA Tournament expansion
• college sports
• football playoff changes
• financial reasons
• job security
• Huskies

Keywords

• NCAA
• tournament expansion
• football playoff
• college sports
• Huskies
• Jon Wilner
• Softy
• Dick Fain

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The San Jose Mercury News, NCAA

Places: Huskies

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