Posted on 01/09/2007 2:27:09 AM PST by L.N. Smithee
BUMP for a later read.
The Rose Bowl is the only non-Fox BCS bowl and has a HUGE contract with ABC til 2014.
Nothing will happen playoff wise until 2015.
"The school president's won't bite because semesters end right about that time in December (finals). The president's and the AD's also like the money the bowls generate. I agree they could get more with a playoff system and parallel bowl games."
Probably won't even come close to the money they get now. The NCAA would claim it is an NCAA championship and most of the money would go to the NCAA to dole out as they see fit. You guys probably don't remember the old system. Used to be the NCAA told you how many times you got to be on TV and took half the TV money. That's why the schools and the conferences won't let the NCAA have a division 1a football team playoff.
A playoff system will happen. It is not a question of if, but of when.
I am not an advocate of a playoff system. My reasons are irrelevant.
The playoff system will come to be as a result of the constant one-way dialogue coming from the electronic and print mediums. There is no substantive rebuttle permitted. You have a high percentage of loudmouth sports personalities constantly pounding the theme at every possible opportunity. They utilize nothing less than emotion to "legitimize" their argument. The result is that young (very young) people are being indoctrinated to the notion. At some point that growing voice, albeit an indoctrinated one, will prevail. And they will have money.
Money is a simple focal point. Nonetheless, add it to the mix and then follow the money (young $ spends like old $).
That is precisely my point. These folks who are idolizing BSU because they barely squeaked out an underdog win against an over-rated team in a marginal conference just can't seem to face reality.
If BSU played real teams, not New Mexico State or Sacramento State , they would have had their asses handed to them well before any thoughts of a bowl game entered the picture. Had they played a schedule as tough as Vanderbilt's they would have had some bragging rights. They didn't.
On the 'up-side', I hear they play Northwestern Idaho Agricultural and Mechanical Junior State College's "Fightin' Tater Tots" next year!
Drop and run, eh? Apparently you haven't bothered to clean up the facts in your article or even to respond to those challenging you...
Yet, we complain about Dan Rather but expect so much less--in terms of accuracy--from our fellow freepers.
This article, and your lack of response to critics, displays the glaring problem of emotionally driven reporting and editorial writing that runs rampant throughout the written word, in every genre, from the MSM to the blogsphere.
Would you still feel the same way if you had all of the facts, I wonder?
I'll get to all of you in due time. Don't worry. And BTW, I corrected my errors regarding BSU's conference and the number of teams that can't possibly win the championship. Nobody has dared challenge those facts. You wanna take a shot? Of course you don't. I dare you.
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