But see, Billy, the thing is, no you weren’t “making points that were accurate points.” Your argument was completely bogus from the moment it spewed forth from your big mouth. Yeah, the RPI could use some tweaking, but that’s not all you said, not by a longshot. You also argued that obviously deserving teams should have been left out of the tournament; you implied that “quality wins” depend on the name on the opponent’s jersey rather than the actual quality of the team; you insinuated that the selection committee was biased toward mid-majors because of its membership; you exuded an overwhelming sense of major-conference entitlement; and worst of all, you stated flat-out that the committee should evaluate teams based on their conferences’ historical performance in the tournament. Those notions, especially the last one, were utterly wrong then, and they’re utterly wrong now. Their wrongness has nothing to do with the MVC and CAA teams’ success in this year’s tournament. (That success just makes it easier to make fun of you. But your argument is wrong regardless.)

Oh, and let’s not forget, you were also unbelievebly, unprofessionally rude to Craig Littlepage. And, because you were so busy obsessing over your major-conference fetish, sticking up for the poor, aggrieved ACC and Big 12 (the deck is really stacked against those leagues, eh Billy?), you didn’t bother to ask Littlepage the really important questions, like how the heck Air Force got in ahead of Missouri State, how on earth Seton Hall was ahead of Cincinnati in the Big East pecking order, why the seeds were so messed up, why the committee appeared to artifically “cap” conferences even though it swears it doesn’t do that, etc. You deprived us all of the opportunity to get those real questions answered, because you chose to use your alloted airtime to give the committee chairman a misguided lecture instead. You, Billy Packer, are an ass.

P.S. And if you think I’m disrespecting you by calling you an ass, well, “It’s an opinion. … I have a difference of opinion. I have a right to that.” If I say the word “opinion” enough times, I don’t actually have to defend my underlying position! It’s just an opinion! And opinions are incapable of being disrespectful. Right, Billy?