Potential BCS antitrust case (merged)

#27
#27
I still don't understand where these big whigs would lose money on a four to eight team playoff.
 
#30
#30
DjCrenshaw said:
I still don't understand where these big whigs would lose money on a four to eight team playoff.
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More Bowls = More money! I think they should somehow keep the bowls while incorporating a 8-team playoff. I also think they are probably going to have to keep some form of a BCS/opinion-based poll in order to distinguish the top 8 seeds in the playoff.
 
#31
#31
BigOrangeArsenal said:
More Bowls = More money! I think they should somehow keep the bowls while incorporating a 8-team playoff. I also think they are probably going to have to keep some form of a BCS/opinion-based poll in order to distinguish the top 8 seeds in the playoff.
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I agree. They could incorporate the bowls into this ideal. It isn't like they would have to change much, and it would give them a chance to get more sponsors. The major 4 bowls, pending fiesta's status, could just rotate who gets the big game every year. I still don't understand why the rose bowl feels that a pac 10 vs big 10 game really matters. Geez, chances are they could just have those two league champs face off in the first round every year or something. Who cares if wisconsin plays the beavers of oregon state.
 
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#33
DjCrenshaw said:
I agree. They could incorporate the bowls into this ideal. It isn't like they would have to change much, and it would give them a chance to get more sponsors. The major 4 bowls, pending fiesta's status, could just rotate who gets the big game every year. I still don't understand why the rose bowl feels that a pac 10 vs big 10 game really matters. Geez, chances are they could just have those two league champs face off in the first round every year or something. Who cares if wisconsin plays the beavers of oregon state.
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Or Keep all four major bowls as the first round...:good!:
 
#34
#34
I would like a playoff... What do you think the chances are in light of the new info?
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#35
#35
I love how the BCS has wired so many people into thinking that a) it's a good system (elitists) or b) a playoff needs to be extremely small. WHat's being ignored here is the fact that college football is the absolute WORST environment for a BCS style system. 12 game samples, no common opponents whatsoever, completely different sets of schedules...what is that supposed to tell us? If you did that in the MLB or NBA, at least there'd be a semi-legitimate way of earning your way into the final round. But in college football, it makes absolutely no sense.
 
#37
#37
More bowls doesn't equal more money. The BCS equals more money for the programs in it. A playoff system would net more gross revenue and more overall revenue to be distributed amongst colleges, but it would be distributed across the colleges across the board, not just the BCS schools, which is why it is a potential antitrust violation, depending on how one treats collegiate athletics, and which is why the BCS schools prefer it -- more money for them because they distribute larger shares of a smaller pie that is still greater than the smaller shares of a larger pie given the number of non-BCS institutions.
 
#38
#38
USCGVOL said:
I would like a playoff... What do you think the chances are in light of the new info?
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50-50. DOJ involvement changes the landscape, from a p.r. perspective, costs perspective, and potentially, legal perspective.
 
#42
#42
I want the playoffs as much as the next guy, but the Feds should keep their noses out of this. They are infringing on all of our rights, activities, lifestyles, and every aspect of our lives and this is just one more thing they should butt out of.
 
#43
#43
volroadwarrior said:
I want the playoffs as much as the next guy, but the Feds should keep their noses out of this. They are infringing on all of our rights, activities, lifestyles, and every aspect of our lives and this is just one more thing they should butt out of.
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:clapping:
 
#44
#44
DEFENDTHISHOUSE said:
Personally, i think the DOJ has quite enough to worry about besides football. Holder should keep his mouth shut till the whole "gunrunner" situation is sorted out.
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Holder is an absolute idiot. And he's sometimes the smartest guy in the room with this administration.
 
#46
#46
orange parmejohn said:
im a fan of the +1 idea. then, the bowl games wouldnt be watered down.
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I am a fan of not having to win your conference twice. Down with the conference title game. We made it without one for years and we could do it again. Play 12 games and then use the BCS rankings to playoff the top 16 teams for a "real" championship. Then the argument will be what is the correct BCS formula to use. Thoughts anyone?
 
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#47
PimpVol said:
I am a fan of not having to win your conference twice. Down with the conference title game. We made it without one for years and we could do it again. Play 12 games and then use the BCS rankings to playoff the top 16 teams for a "real" championship. Then the argument will be what is the correct BCS formula to use. Thoughts anyone?
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no, go with the major conference winners, and two at large..
 
#50
#50
PimpVol said:
I am a fan of not having to win your conference twice. Down with the conference title game. We made it without one for years and we could do it again. Play 12 games and then use the BCS rankings to playoff the top 16 teams for a "real" championship. Then the argument will be what is the correct BCS formula to use. Thoughts anyone?
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If they are going to have a playoff, then the polls have to be completely removed from the equation. If there were some way to get the teams into 8 conferences, each of which had a championship game that served as a play-in game to the playoffs then that would work IMO, but they don't need at large bids determined by voters. Besides a team that doesn't win it's conference certainly doesn't deserve a shot at the NC. If they used the plan that I mentioned, it would add excitement to the end of the season but at the same time wouldn't water down what is by far the best regular season in all of sports.
 
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