I said it was funny that people get worked up that I call it by the sponsor's name, not that it was my intent to get them worked up. They do a fine job of that all on their own when they see fit to disagree.
My take is that Sanderson understands or at least believes that there is a group of folks who would really like to change the way this sport settles national championships. My take is that he believes these types of events just promote those ideas and he doesn't want to participate in that promotion.
The N in NCAA stands for National. Anyone else can put that word in their event, but it isn't really the same thing, hence my reference to the commercial sponsor of the event.