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UGA prez: Bowls are "screwy", let's have a playoff

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by novelist_wannabe, Jan 8, 2008.

  1. Twoback

    Twoback Active Member

    Outing alert: Jay is Gordon Gee. ;)
     
  2. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    And yet, despite Adams' bitching, Georgia shouldn't have been in the mix. Hot team at the end of the year, yes. Won its division of the SEC? Played in the SEC title game?
     
  3. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    You don't think you'd get fans to travel to 3 playoff games to watch their team chase championship grail, where they know the result was going to be decided on the field in front of them? I'll beg to differ on that one.

    And let's please just put aside the academics argument. The majority of the playoffs would be going on in the one part of the season where the players wouldn't be in class (due to Christmas break).
     
  4. chester

    chester Member

    It's not that they wouldn't travel, it's that they wouldn't travel for as long a time in advance of the game. That's where the bowl committees make their money, not on game day, but the week or so leading up to the game.
     
  5. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    How would this work anyways? You'd have to make these games regional in some way. A quarterfinal between the Big East and the Fat 10 isn't gonna draw shit if you play it in Miami or New Orleans. It would have to be in NY, Philly, Chicago or Indianapolis.
     
  6. I've covered a lot of NCAA first round basketball games in front of largely empty or disinterested arenas.
     
  7. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    The should just keep it simple.
    Rose: Big 10 v. Pac 10
    Fiesta: Big 12 v. at large 1 or 2
    Sugar: SEC v. at large 1 or 2
    Orange: Big East v. ACC

    Second Round in Phoenix and New Orleans

    Championship game rotates between Miami and Pasadena
     
  8. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    You think you are going to get 10-25K fans of a football team to travel each week for a football game? Yer nuts.
    It works in basketball for the allure of a second game and a promise of a weekend of at least two-to-five others to watch, depending on the round.
    You're going to arrange flights on a five-day notice three weeks straight?
    NFW...
    The D1 basketball philosophy of a playoff format does not carry over to football. D2, D3? yes because the crowds are smaller, but more importantly, it is done on a campus site where at least one team will bring a lot of fans.
    Play the first round on a campus site? Yeah, I think the crowd would sell out. But in a situation like this, the crowd is inconsequential. The site gets a guarantee of dollars regardless of the gate, but the big money comes from television, which will pay to parade these teams around during the school year for three straight weeks (You think this kids will be in class during this? HAH!) at the beginning of a semester?
    The difference between this and the NCAA tourney is spreading the wealth of dollars. Every conference gets a crack at the pot of gold. You think the SEC is going to want the Sunbelt to have a piece of its pie when it won't send a team? The Big TEn will share with the MAC or the Pac-10 share with the WAC? You're nuts.
    It won't change as long as the Big Ten/Pac-10/Rose Bowl traditionalists/obstructionists (depending on your perspective) hold their ground.
     
  9. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    Uga explains it all.
     
  10. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Some people also say that a playoff doesn't really determine a true champion. Two years ago, when George Mason made the Final Four and Florida ended up winning the championship (a Florida team that lost to NIT champion South Carolina twice during the regular season), the four teams that had proven themselves to be the best all season long got knocked off before they could get to the Final Four.
    Look at the NFL this year. All season long, the Patriots have proven themselves to be the best team in the league. If somebody beats them before they could get to the Super Bowl, is the winner of the Super Bowl the true champion?
     
  11. MU_was_not_so_hard

    MU_was_not_so_hard Active Member

    But that's the complete opposite of what is happening now.
    If you're the best, prove it on the field. Don't let a bunch of sports writers, coaches and some magical, all-knowing computer decide who's the best.
     
  12. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    I wouldn't say that, so much as I'd say that a playoff doesn't really provide a definitive answer to which is the best team, because any playoff format can be such a crapshoot, and usually is.

    But a playoff always, always determines which team is the champion. Which makes it a huge step up for college football.

    In most sports (baseball, especially), the best team is not always the champion. But there can be no debate as to which team is the champion.
     
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