Posted on 01/05/2014 1:05:40 PM PST by Dave346
Edited on 01/05/2014 3:02:29 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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Your persepective on college football obviously begins and ends at the tv remote control. who are you to decide what “bad football” is? who has appointed these people to arrange college football to suit their holiday viewing pleasure?
leave the damn game alone. All of this tinkering around to “perfect” college football is a decidedly liberal notion in the first place.
Wait. I thought we were arguing. Lol. I totally and completely agree with this.
Well obviously I don’t get to change things or a system that doesn’t give half the teams bowl games would already have been shot in the head because it sucks. If you look at the ratings of these bowl games though you see there’s lots of people that think having the 5th ranked team in some random conference play the 6th ranked team in some random conference makes for bad football that nobody bothers to watch. Most of the bowl games get lousy ratings and don’t even happen in front of sold out audiences.
It’s not about changing the game, the game is fine, it’s about changing the post season, which is atrocious and stupid, and losing money. There’s nothing liberal about realizing that the system is flawed. Being smart enough to realize it can be made better is not political.
you can’t fix the problem because you don’t even know what the problem is.
college football is about much, much more than tv ratings. first of all, it’s about college. if you don’t get that, then your entire foundation is flawed.
don’t mess with my alma mater. don’t mess with it’s football program. it doesn’t need people “fixing” it. it’s fine without you.
bingo. and if you get screwed out of a playoff berth, you literally just got screwed out of a shot at the national title.
this makes it worse, not better.
Sorry but you’re living in the past. College football is about revenue first. It hasn’t been about college first since the 60s. Nobody care who your alma mater is. And sorry but it does need fixing, because it’s a system that’s eating itself. The bowl system has gotten stupid there are simply too many of them, the NCAA rewriting history constantly has become the laughing stock of every aspect of the game, then there’s the super conferences. The system is broken, and it’s just getting worse.
The FCS has an excellent playoff program; playoffs certainly are part of college football; who doesn’t want to know who’s best? I have contempt for the Bowl people, not a playoff system.
The bliss of the fcs playoff system is a delusion. the argument goes like this; “see? look there. fcs has a playoff, and there is no controversy. no drama at all”.
the lie is that it’s the playoff that prevents the controversy, when in fact there is no controversy because no one cares who the fcs champion is. you could literally steal the fcs championship at gunpoint, and no one would notice.
Strange, I haven’t heard a lot of complaining about who gets to play in the championship game this year...guess the BCS worked.
Yep. and people are going to go insane the first time all four playoff teams come out of the sec. that would be the exact opposite of what a playoff is supposed to accomplish.
people are getting duped. They have so much blind faith in the unexamined magic of the word “playoff”, that they simply aren’t thinking the thing through.
Even if it were true that “no one cares” about the FCS (you obviously have not been part of a FCS playoff school ), that does not diminish the fact that the FCS system works 100x better than the BsCS to select the best team.
if we were to substitute “healthcare” for “college football”, and “affordable” for “revenue”, you would sound precisely like nancy pelosi right now.
precisely.
The fact that you need to make this personal and haven’t even attempted to discuss any facts shows you know you have none. Sad really, but too bad for you. Let me know if you get the capability of having an adult conversation.
It’ll be a few years, but I look forward to playoff expansion to include 8 or (preferably) 16 teams. Championships will be far more meaningful when that happens. With the 16 top-ranked teams getting in, there may still be bleating and whining from teams that don’t get in, but any team with a legitimate argument to be #1 would make it in for their shot easily.
you aren’t the supreme arbiter of what a “fact” is.
I didn’t make anything personal. I was simply exposing a paralell that I thought perhaps had escaped your notice; playoff people are closet utopians.
if the subjective nature of the mechanism of selection is the problem, and it is, then you aren’t fixing anything.
You aren’t solving the problem, you’re moving it, and thereby actually expanding and exacerbating it.
They’ll just expand it to a 64 team tournament, plus a play in game.
Some people won’t know I’m joking.
lol. would you believe I have actually heard 64 seriously suggested? typically, it involves cutting the regular season in half. for those that worship at the alter of the sacred playoff, nothing is spared, and nothing is too extreme.
by the way, the fact that college basketball runs a tournament field of 64 is an admission that the selection process is inherently flawed and arbitrary - their imperfect solution is to make the field so outrageously huge that by the time you get to the schools that got screwed, they are typically such small institutions that no one really takes any notice.
that’s neither “fair” nor “fixed”. In fact, it’s almost the exact opposite. it’s knowingly screwing the littlest guy possible.
I say we do 128 teams.
There are only 126 FBS teams. We’ll pick up DeVry Institute and University of Phoenix.
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