“THE NCAA GOT RID OF THE RPI” is a flashy headline. There’s no denying that as it was universally hated. The more I dug into the new NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET), however, the more I realized we will just face the same conversations as we do every March. Here’s why it will be worse than those we faced with the RPI.

It is a black box system

This, to me, is a complete red flag. Simply put, they did not reveal any of the inner workings of the NET. The RPI, to its credit (and detriment) was a clean formula leveraging a teams win percentage, their opponents’ win percentage, and their opponents’ opponents’ win percentage weighted 25%, 50%, and 25% respectively.