And that system is completely within the confines of what I suggested.
What would suck is the idea of a 16 team play off and nothing else.
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And that system is completely within the confines of what I suggested.
What would suck is the idea of a 16 team play off and nothing else.
Even if a playoff were in the future there would still be bowl games! Why? Because it's about $$$! Where does this money come from? Advertisers! Why do companies advertise? To sell their product! What happens when they sell their product? They make $$$!
If college football went to a 16-team playoff (won't happen, just a hypothetical) there would still be another 24 or so bowl games. So, even with you complaining about the money-sucking bowl games, they will NEVER go away. People still watch and will always watch, even when/if a playoff system happens.
1) I think he means the talk of their hometown, not the bowl town.
2) So you're saying that the bowl system once worked? What about it has changed? It's always been ruled by money/power rather than merit. Just having more bowl games doesn't really change anything.
3) It's apples to mosquitoes. You can't get nearly as many people watching NCAA basketball games live as you can football games. Hardly anyone even bothers attemtpting to travel to NCAA basketball games. You have far more teams, and in basketball (unlike football) you can play 2 games in a weekend, which means the tourney can be played in a few weekends. Also, college basketball's tournament is inclusive enough that the underdog can get a shot. In college football, a playoff would be structured in a way that essentially shut out anyone who wasn't a Top 15 program perrenially. In order for a college football play off to appeal beyond to the fanbases of 75% of the programs (you know, the people who buy tickets and make this thing work), it has to be small enough to preserve the bowl system, or gigantic. Because there are fewer teams playing less games in football, it becomes a lot more difficult to duplicate the magic of March Madness.
Amen and 100% true. Even in the craphole Shreveport we still got treated like royalty, everyone there was nice and we got decent bowl gifts.
Maybe for you. But I love Bowl season and would take that over the NCAA Basketball tournament anyday.
At least with the bowls you get teams that had to come to play every game of the season. In basketball all you have to do is make the tournament and get hot. I prefer to have a champion who was great all season rather than one who got hot/lucky for some tournament games.
I talked to some of the law enforcement down there, and they were pretty jacked about getting to do all of the escort/blockade work for the team buses on every jaunt across town (practice, bowl events, etc.).
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that Mizzoulander is trying to rationalize his ****** fanbase by saying any bowls but the BCS don't matter although mizzery never has made a BCS bowl nor will in the future. If I'm not mistaken, Kansas was picked ahead of mizzery in the Orange bowl because mizzery's fans suck major ***.
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You aren't the only one, I'm sure everyone (except mizzoulander) thinks the same thing.
No. It's utterly ridiculous.
His entire presence on this board is an exercise in justifying his school's intentional self destruction of their football program.
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Yes I think it's funny that he is on this message board trying to convince us of something. Clearly he has no friends.
With his rationale, Missouri hasn't played a meaningful game since the 1972 Fiesta Bowl.
Or schedule some easy wins and hope for a couple of more... This is why I love basketball. The tournament scenario allows us to see some amazing matchups early in the year. Teams like Duke and North Carolina are playing all the heavyweights.
All the talk of the basketball regular season being devalued have NOTHING to do with the tournament, it's the length of the season. If football played 35 games the regular season would be devalued as well, tournament or no tournament.
I watch every single NCAA tournament game because they all mean something. I will watch about a game and a half of the bowl season...
I think that had more to do with Lew Perkins' guarantee to the Orange Bowl organizers that KU would sell X number of tickets. I wonder how the KU athletic dept. came up with the cash to do that?
Ticket scandal rocks Kansas - College Basketball - Rivals.com
Oh, yeah...that's right. :smile:
..and I watch nothing of the regular bball season aside from ISU. College football must be doing something right. It is right behind the NFL in popularity.
See I'm the opposite. I watch every bowl game and could care less about the NCAA tournament outside the Final 4 (unless ISU is in it then I watch their games).
Well no ****. You can't compare football to any other sport. They only play once a week, of course more people are going to watch than any other sport. People aren't going to take 3 hours every day to watch a baseball game.
