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Stop Super Conferences, Start a Playoff [Wetzel]
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knapplc
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Are Cowboys fans more in favor of the current bowl system, a playoff, or something different? I would presume you're very much against the "Super Conference" idea, since that would likely eliminate all the non-AQ schools from major bowl contention, but would a full-on playoff be better in your opinion?
I really don't like the bowl system as it exists today. I think it unnecessarily excludes far too many teams from contention. I don't know that an NFL-style playoff is a perfect solution (in fact, I know it's not) but it seems the solution with the least problems.
I really don't like the bowl system as it exists today. I think it unnecessarily excludes far too many teams from contention. I don't know that an NFL-style playoff is a perfect solution (in fact, I know it's not) but it seems the solution with the least problems.
fromolwyoming
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Personally, I'm in favor of a combo. The conference champs from each conference, followed by the next best 5 teams in a playoff. The other teams that have winning records would dtill go to bowl games as it is a good experience for the kids.knapplc said:
thirtyseven
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I am in agreement with the combo idea. Keep the bowls and add a playoff with the winner of each conference and a few at large spots. Excluding byu of course.
COS Cowboy
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Yup, conference champs go to the tournament, everyone else goes to bowls. win-win for everyone.
I'm actually an old school guy. I didn't mind the way it used to be; smaller conferences--SWC, Big 8, the old WAC, etc--with the bowl tie-ins and the national championship decided by the polls. I miss watching bowl games all day on my birthday (Jan 1). Now I'm lucky if there's 2 or 3 games on New Years as their spread out from what seems like Thanksgiving to Valentines Day. I know the BCS is somewhat better becasue it has a "true" 1 vs 2 championship game. If BYU could win a championship in the old system it should allow almost any team a crack at it whereas now it's pretty limited to the power conferences and Notre Dame.
knapplc
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I used to like Bowl season when there weren't so many bowls. It used to mean something to earn your way into a bowl game, but now that more than half of D1 goes to a bowl... it's not so special.
Of course I'll still watch them all. I absolutely LOVE college football, so if there's a game on I usually have it on TV, even if I'm not paying total attention. I really loved those Tuesday night Sun Belt Conference games they had a couple of years back. College football every night of the week? Sign me up!
What I fear, though, is that the success of college football is its own worst enemy. There is SO MUCH money involved now, and when you have big money you get corporate thinkers, and that is not good for tradition. These guys running the BCS don't give a damn about bowl tie-ins, traditions, rivalries, any of that. They are businessmen and they are solely concerned with their bottom line.
It's an unfortunate reality - money controls college football. Teams scheme their non-con schedules almost exclusively around their budgetary needs, and many BCS schools schedule very weak teams with the sole intent of earning cheap wins to keep lofty bowl goals alive because it means big money to the school.
That's not to say that I think the bowl system is good. I think it's mostly a crock, and the BCS is a bigger crock. But it's not going away, and you can't have a realistic tournament with a pool of 120 teams - too great of a percentage of teams gets left out, and that benefits nobody.
Of course I'll still watch them all. I absolutely LOVE college football, so if there's a game on I usually have it on TV, even if I'm not paying total attention. I really loved those Tuesday night Sun Belt Conference games they had a couple of years back. College football every night of the week? Sign me up!
What I fear, though, is that the success of college football is its own worst enemy. There is SO MUCH money involved now, and when you have big money you get corporate thinkers, and that is not good for tradition. These guys running the BCS don't give a damn about bowl tie-ins, traditions, rivalries, any of that. They are businessmen and they are solely concerned with their bottom line.
It's an unfortunate reality - money controls college football. Teams scheme their non-con schedules almost exclusively around their budgetary needs, and many BCS schools schedule very weak teams with the sole intent of earning cheap wins to keep lofty bowl goals alive because it means big money to the school.
That's not to say that I think the bowl system is good. I think it's mostly a crock, and the BCS is a bigger crock. But it's not going away, and you can't have a realistic tournament with a pool of 120 teams - too great of a percentage of teams gets left out, and that benefits nobody.
