Reading The Tea Leafs for ISU: Welcome to the MAC

[enisthemenace]

Top 2 from each conference, round robin playoff.

A 4 team playoff is ridiculous, and won't make more $ than the bowl system.

I just don't think anything more than a 4 team playoff is economically feasible, especially for the fanbase of the schools who would end up having to pay/travel 3 or 4 extra times (kind of a punishment for winning, in a sense), therefore turning the playoff itself into a bust.

If it was, we'd have one already (IMO).

As mentioned by someone else, keep the bowl system and add the 4 team playoff.

 

[sunnysideup]

Not many want a 4 team playoff. Most want a 8 or 16 team field.

But it will be an 8 team playoff. The winners of each division play each other to become champs of the conference, then a round of four then the championship game.

 

[2020cy]

You would have the conference championships for the 4 mega conferences and then the 4 champs get seeded for the national championship, basicly a 8 team championship playoff.

 

[dabears32]

But it will be an 8 team playoff. The winners of each division play each other to become champs of the conference, then a round of four then the championship game.

Nice attempt at a spin. So by that logic we currently have a 4 team playoff, right?

If we ever get a playoff, teams from every conference would have to get a bid for anyone to take it seriously.

 

[2020cy]

But it will be an 8 team playoff. The winners of each division play each other to become champs of the conference, then a round of four then the championship game.

I think we were typing the same answer at the same time.

 

[weR138]

Nice attempt at a spin. So by that logic we currently have a 4 team playoff, right?

If we ever get a playoff, teams from every conference would have to get a bid for anyone to take it seriously.[/QUOTE]

Right. Every major conference, of which there will be four(each with sixteen teams).

 

[FarminCy]

I just don't think anything more than a 4 team playoff is economically feasible, especially for the fanbase of the schools who would end up having to pay/travel 3 or 4 extra times (kind of a punishment for winning, in a sense), therefore turning the playoff itself into a bust.

If it was, we'd have one already (IMO).

As mentioned by someone else, keep the bowl system and add the 4 team playoff.

No way does a playoff turn into a bust, fans will travel, maybe not a 16 team but an 8 team playoff they will definitely travel. The teams that will consistently be in the playoff will have no problems getting their fans there.

I don't get the economic part for the teams either. Do people really think it takes that much more money for a BCS team to travel across the country than it does a 1-AA team for a playoff system. 1-AA schools have just as many players, equipment, staff, etc. to take along through the playoff system and it pencils out for them.

 

[trajanJ]

If you have 4 Super Conferences the divisional championships would be the 8 team tourney. Hate to say it, probably would work pretty good and as a Jayhawk it looks like we could be on the outside looking in.

 

[enisthemenace]

No way does a playoff turn into a bust, fans will travel, maybe not a 16 team but an 8 team playoff they will definitely travel. The teams that will consistently be in the playoff will have no problems getting their fans there.

I don't get the economic part for the teams either. Do people really think it takes that much more money for a BCS team to travel across the country than it does a 1-AA team for a playoff system. 1-AA schools have just as many players, equipment, staff, etc. to take along through the playoff system and it pencils out for them.

Apples and oranges.

 

[Wesley]

Heres my thing. I think if the Pac 10 went to 16, the Big Ten would follow suit. I think that gives us some sort of chance.

I also agree with Al. If that conference is developed, it's an AQ conference.

Call them the Midwest 16, and the West 16 and the South 16 and the East 16 and you have 64 teams to leave the NCAA. Have semifinals of four four-team divisions or semi finals in each of the four conferences followed by the conference championship. Then you have four teams for the bowl games to play for the national championship.

Too easy.

 

[FarminCy]

Apples and oranges.

How is it. You have the cost of moving 80 some players, their equipment, support staff, training staff, etc. It's the same cost to move the exact same amount of stuff regardless of what division you are in.

Plus a playoff game in D-1 will be worth way more money to each team than a 1-AA playoff game to offset travelling costs.

 

[Al_4_State]

7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.

Meet you at the rest stop?

 

[eastman]

wow dont ever say the MAC again...

 

[LutherClone]

Does this mean we do not need to bowl in the south end?

Nope. When we start running the table in the conference and win National Championships, we'll not only need to bowl in the South End, but add a second deck on the north over the Jacobson building!


(That last part would be kind of cool)

 

[wonkadog]

Out here in BYU/Utah Land, they are talking that the MWC would gladly dump New Mexico/Wyoming/San Diego St. in order to make room for the Big 12 "leftovers" if they become available.

I think the most realistic scenario (assuming the 6 teams go to the Pac-10 & Nebraska/Mizzou go to the Big 10) is that the remaining 4 teams (ISU, KU, KSU, Baylor) recruit another 8 teams to keep the Big 12 technically intact.

My top picks: BYU, Utah, Boise St., TCU, Houston, Cincinnati, Colorado St., & Air Force (other options are UNLV/Memphis)

 

[oldman]

When are you going to get it through your head that the Big 8 is dead, and has been for 15 years? Kaput? Not coming back? Sionara...

Jeez, lighten up Dog. I think this is the first time I've ever brought the Big 8 up. I don't talk about them in every post. You sound like my wife...

 

[Cyched]

Out here in BYU/Utah Land, they are talking that the MWC would gladly dump New Mexico/Wyoming/San Diego St. in order to make room for the Big 12 "leftovers" if they become available.

I think the most realistic scenario (assuming the 6 teams go to the Pac-10 & Nebraska/Mizzou go to the Big 10) is that the remaining 4 teams (ISU, KU, KSU, Baylor) recruit another 8 teams to keep the Big 12 technically intact.

My top picks: BYU, Utah, Boise St., TCU, Houston, Cincinnati, Colorado St., & Air Force (other options are UNLV/Memphis)

Yay?

 

[wonkadog]

Yeah, nothing to be all jacked up about but I was hoping to clarify that the MWC does not really appear set on keeping all its teams if they restructure which I think would be a good thing...makes the new conference a bunch more respectable.