re: Frank Martin is going to change OOC contracts to avoid situations like this year

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Why is that reference misused so often? What on earth does this situation have to do with "sour grapes"? The reference is to the fable in which the fox who can't reach the grapes concludes that they are probably sour anyway, so it's just as well he can't reach them. The moral is that people sometimes pretend not to want something they can't have so they don't feel bad about not having it. How is that in any way relevant to Martin's point in this situation? "Sour grapes" would be applicable if he said something to the effect that being in the NCAA tournament is no big deal, so it's OK that they're not.

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Because sour grapes and gross and no one wants sour grapes.

TBH, I had no clue where the phrase came from and use it solely contextually.