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What? No College FB Championship Thread?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by doctorquant, Jan 8, 2017.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Also you'd have players leaving the playoff to get ready for the draft.
     
  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Pushing the season into February would also absolutely devour college basketball's conference season.
     
  3. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    If anything, have semis the third Saturday in December and the championship Jan. 1. And if the Rose Bowl runs long, it can finish up on the Ocho.
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    This is another example of cures worse than the disease. What are the most heard complaints about the current setup? This is not in any particular order. 1. Four teams not enough. My guess is it'll be expanded to eight teams sooner rather than later. 2. Playoff games on New Year's Eve sucks. This is going to be changed very soon. 3. Game on Monday night sucks because it's a workday and game goes past midnight. Part one of that complaint could be addressed by revising playoff schedule in complaint two. Part the second is a complaint about length of all games. That's the most valid complaint of all, but it's also the hardest to address because it requires significant changes to game rules.
     
  5. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Plus, fans would have moved on to the start of the college baseball season.
     
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  6. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    So you want the college football season to end in the same month that the college baseball season begins? The season's already too long with too wide of a gap between the end of the regular season and the big bowls. The idea of stretching that all the way to Super Bowl weekend is insane.

    And what a deal for those players: this season ends in February, next season's Spring practice starts immediately thereafter. Off-seasons are for sissies.
     
    Last edited: Jan 11, 2017
  7. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    The NFL draft deadline is Jan. 16, signing day is the first Wednesday in February (usually before the Super Bowl, but not always).

    Pushing the season anymore would totally foul up everything.
     
  8. Roscablo

    Roscablo Well-Known Member

    There are certainly ways to go to eight teams and not play until February. It's going to take messing with the "traditional" system or bowl system, which many aren't going to like but everyone would adjust and likely say it's better in the long run. You have a five week gap nearly in games until the big bowls the way it's set up now. Can't get something going before that? And part of this burnout is 40-plus bowl games filled with mediocre teams. You think most outside of the staunchest supporters of those teams are going to care if those games go away?

    The playoff has been mostly good so far, even if they've screwed up when it's played. You can't even argue too much about who's been in the games. Go to eight and it ends most debate. What the playoff has done along with the billions of bowl games is made everything else just filling most of which people don't care about. Just focus on a playoff and call it good. People would adjust.
     
  9. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    Plus one reason coaches will never admit is a reason: A lot of the NFL-bound players are never, ever going to be academically eligible for a game played after the start of the second semester.
     
  10. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    They have to be academically eligible after the first semester (or fall quarter) to play in postseason, right? Once the second semester (or winter quarter) starts, aren't they are good until final grades are due months down the road? So they could easily stay enrolled, skip 2-3 weeks of class, and then bail. Of course, it could be an APR hit, if they begin a term and leave in the middle of it and are determined not to be in good academic standing when they leave.
     
  11. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    College needs to find a way to rein in replay. That's the biggest issue now. It seems like every damn play with even a scintilla of doubt is reviewed. I'd be for going to the coach challenge system that's in place in the NFL. Review scoring plays and turnovers. Coaches will have to decide whether it's worth it to challenge whether or not a receiver was out on a 2-yard out in the first quarter.
     
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  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It was horrendous during the championship game. It was like they were scared to death that this play was going to be the one talked about for years, somehow, and had to prevent it at all costs.
     
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