Good thing Congress is taking the time to focus on the more important things in this country... http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4727426
Wow. I have two thoughts on this. 1) Shouldn't they focus on more important things with the current state of our country and the world? 2) Is this really any of their business? Our government can tell College Football how to run their shit? I also don't like the BCS, fwiw. I would like a +2 or so system. A playoff would be cool for the top 8 teams also, and then have the rest still in bowl games.
Glad we're spending valuable time and money debating this issue as clearly there are no other pressing concerns.
Glad we're spending our valuable time and posts discussing this issue as there are clearly no pressing blazer concerns. barfo
Better than them focusing on destroying our health care system or killing our economy with cap & trade.
I am all for it... may be the best thing Gov did in a long time.... and one person sponsering a bill hardly amounts to the whole government wasting time on it.
The sponsor is a congressman from the wackiest state in the Union, Texas. In the fascist South, football makes the front page almost every day. They crucify the personal lives of their college football players. The poor young guys are forever scarred by their media persecutors.
Yep. I learned this by arguing with Thunder fans on a Sonic board. I read a lot of the Oklahoman, which is owned by the family of the wife of Clay Bennett, the Thunder owner. Also I read some of the New Orleans and Florida newspapers. They think football is as important as politics there and destroy the players who live normal social lives of college students. football on the front page every single day of the year... http://newsok.com/
so thunder fans, the oklahoman, new orleans, and florida have told you all about texas and how terrible they are to football players?
Most of the people who argued for the South were from Texas, so I got to know them quite well. I can almost recognize them after a few words. A bunch of wackies, you excluded, of course. Good thing you're an exception. One was a congressional aide and told me what he was seeing at bars after Congress would end for the day. Another was near Dallas and he actually liked me. Proof that they're all wacky. Present company excluded, of course.
The BCS is so bad that I can't blame Congress for trying to put a stop to it. It's done a lot of harm to college football.
Just like when they focused on baseball steroids for 6 months while the economy went down in flames? Then they wonder why the people think they are fucked up?
Now back to topic since I have flamed the politicians. I am glad BCS will be gone. It was complete bullshit. We can now move to a system where the national championship can rotate around the bowls like it does now, but until then, the other bowl games can be the playoff rounds. For instance, maybe one year the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl are playoff games, and the Fiesta Bowl is a national championship game. Then the next year vice versa. Plus WTF is the NCAA thinking? Could you imagine the TV revenues for the football equivelent of march madness? Undefeated teams playing in playoff games? Fucking rad!
I think the only difficulty I can see, and I hate the BCS system, would love to see a playoff, but I think a lot of the bowl games benefit from teams fans traveling to see them play. If a team goes four rounds, are they going to travel as well? Will they find the fans to travel 4 weeks in a row around the holidays? Maybe so, but I can see it being more difficult. Do you want to rely on, say, Florida fans traveling for four weeks in a row all around the country, or Florida to travel one week, as well as Iowa, Ohio State, etc.? or do you eliminate a lot of the bowls, and give teams home games for the early playoff rounds?
I'd rather they spent their time focusing on destroying our health care system or killing our economy with cap & trade. That's what we elected them to do.
I think a playoff system puts the pressure on the fans to go to all the playoff games. Say, for example, Boise State was playing Alabama in the playoffs round 1, BSU fans will go because although they will root for BSU and a some will honestly believe they will win, most will think "I have my doubts we'll get beyond Alabama - I better go while I can". If then, perchance, they do advance, the championship fever gets even higher and fans are even more likely to make the trip. Other bowl games may suffer from a playoff system but I think the bowls involved in the system will not suffer from lack of fans. Gramps...
