BCS Championship

#252
#252
Ohio Vol said:
A four-team playoff can't be done because approximately 5 more teams will be saying they should get in. A four-team playoff is also sort of pointless anyway.

An eight-team playoff will probably create an additional 8-15 teams saying they should be in. There ALSO would be lawsuits from the small conferences. After all, if this playoff is patterned after the other NCAA tournaments, then ALL conference champions are included.

So you're left with a 16-team playoff (11 conference champions, 5 at-large). So let's all sit back and enjoy the thought of an electrifying and exciting Ohio State against Troy State (or maybe MTSU) first-round matchup.
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That's real simple to remedy. Tell the Sun Belt, WAC, etc. that if they sue, they're no longer NCAA members. It's real simple. The 'AA is a voluntary organization. They can determine their own membership. You just tell the bottom feeder conferences, "Sue us, you're gone." That will end that threat immediately.
 
#253
#253
GAVol said:
....because nobody has ever offered a 1AA team a million bucks just to show up and play in a postseason game.
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Sorry, GAVol, but I have no idea how your comment relates to the discussion we were having.

Volfanbill stated, "...which again puts us in the situtation that there's no way you can put the players through an additional 4 game stretch through december that would cut into finals and the holidays."

I replied, "How is it that Divison 1-AA and Division II manage to pull it off? Hell, a great education is FAR more important for all of those guys as they're all concerned EXTREME long shots to be able to play professional football."

The argument that a playoff system would interrupt the academics a Div 1A players is ludicrous, and that's the point that I was making. I'm just not sure how your comment fits into the discussion.
 
#254
#254
hatvol96 said:
That's real simple to remedy. Tell the Sun Belt, WAC, etc. that if they sue, they're no longer NCAA members. It's real simple. The 'AA is a voluntary organization. They can determine their own membership. You just tell the bottom feeder conferences, "Sue us, you're gone." That will end that threat immediately.
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I'd throw the bottom-feeder Big East conference in with that group as well.
 
#256
#256
hatvol96 said:
The Big East is too important to basketball. The 'AA wouldn't think of strongarming them.
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Good point. However, the Big East should not have an automatic bid in football. If they have a team that is good, they'll get included. If not, they won't.
 
#257
#257
I guess my point is that - like you have alluded to - academics don't mean jack in this discussion. It's the money that matters.

If the Presidents were really concerned about kids missing class, they wouldn't have added a 12th game to the schedule.
 
#258
#258
GAVol said:
I guess my point is that - like you have alluded to - academics don't mean jack in this discussion. It's the money that matters.

If the Presidents were really concerned about kids missing class, they wouldn't have added a 12th game to the schedule.
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You're 100% correct. The whole academics argument is an absolute joke. I find it amazing that they'd think that anyone actually believes the **** that they're shoveling with that argument.
 
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