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Congress to hold hearings to examine BCS - ESPN

Apparently our government doesn't have enough to worry about right now. I guess its very imperitive that they be working on trying force college football into having a playoff. Thats important stuff for them I guess. College football, which has nothing to do with what the governments role is supposed to be, is now under scrutiny for how it selects its BCS games.

STAY THE **** OUT OF FOOTBALL YOU PRICKS. YOU **** UP EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH.
 
I so want the BCS to have a playoff system, but I draw the line at the government forcing them to do it.
 
americanwoman said:
I so want the BCS to have a playoff system, but I draw the line at the government forcing them to do it.
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I wouldn't care if they had a playoff or not, but I just don't see how it could be done. They would literally have to do away with all the major bowls, or at the very least, delegate them to second tier status, for teams that did not make the "playoffs". They would have to have home games for higher seeded teams, if they wanted a playoff.

I've done alot of arguments for this playoff thing, and some people think they can use the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, etc... in the playoffs, but they can't. If your team goes to the playoffs, and lets say went to the title game, how many people could afford to go to Pasedena, then to Miami, then to Arizona for the title game? Its just not possible to get the amount of fans in the stands you would need, and alot of people would hold back hoping their team got into the title game, leaving the attendance at the other bowl games low.

They would simply have to have home games, like they do in the NFL and then the title game can be wherever. I'd love for that system, because the Big Ten gets shafted every year in bowl games because we have to travel cross country for every decent bowl game, while SEC/ACC teams basically have home crowds. I'd love to get UGA or Bama up to Camp Randall, or the Horseshoe in January.
 
Why not do a four man playoff? It'd have to mess with the bowl tradition a bit but...

Make the big four bowls kick off the bowl season instead of end it. From a marketing stand point you use them as bookends, with the big four starting it and the national tournament ending it.

Jan 1st you begin your tournament with the Top 4 teams. This will be helped by the fact the big bowls already happened. You have the Championship Tournament take place entirely at a single location, and you can rotate that location each year.

Jan 1st you have two games played, 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3.

Wait at leas 5 days and then you play the championship game.

That at least gives you a SLIGHT bit of a playoff, though admittedly not as good as an 8 team one. That said, your complaint about the travel is a legitimate one I rarely hear and one I hadn't really thought of which made me try to think of this one.
 
I'm trying to find out who was the numbskull to write their Representative and complain in the following order:

"Economy Economy Economy, COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL Economy Economy Playoff System Implementation"
 
Arch Enemy said:
I'm trying to find out who was the numbskull to write their Representative and complain in the following order:

"Economy Economy Economy, COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL Economy Economy Playoff System Implementation"
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I don't know that anybody did(although I wouldn't put it past people). I remember during the campaign, they had McCain and Obama on ESPN and each were asked what they would like to see different in sports, and Obama piped up about wanting a college football playoff. So I imagine some Congressmen took it to mean that they should actually look into it.
 
Using history as our guide, 5 years from now we'll have a system where all bowl games are banned and the national championship trophieS are awarded to the three teams with the best records.
 
RightinNYC said:
Using history as our guide, 5 years from now we'll have a system where all bowl games are banned and the national championship trophieS are awarded to the three teams with the best records.
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I figure since per the article, they want fair play for everyone, they would just hand out participation trophies, and not keep score.
 


You could have an eight team playoff right after the regular season and before the bowl games with the higher ranked team getting the home game. Then the final two would play the championship game in the bowl game. The six teams that lose in the playoffs would then have a bowl games to go to. Basically keep the bowl games as they are now without incorporating them into a playoff system.
 
americanwoman said:
I so want the BCS to have a playoff system, but I draw the line at the government forcing them to do it.
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You beat me to the punch here. I'll also add that the Republicans and the steroid hearings in MLB were also well across the line, let citizens......the fans, pressure sports into doing the right or desired thing, not some idiot in Washington who has other things to worry about.
 
 

Thats actually not a half bad idea. One of the Bowls could serve as the title game, and the other 3 could serve as the extra bowls for matchups that didn't happen in the playoffs. And the Bowls could rotate for the national title game each year.

Another issue is that during December, schools have finals or whatever. You'd have to cut back the regular season games played for everybody since the games go into late November as it is, and then everyone would except for 8 teams, would have 2 (extra) weeks off. So prehaps going to an 11 game schedule for everybody would work better.

If you eliminated the conference championship games however(which are dumb anyway), that would buy you one week for those 8 teams.

Interesting proposal though. Most workable I have seen. Takes care of travel issues and everything.
 
Ahh man, thanks. You should hear my ideas for a spring pro football league.
 

They take a month off anyway, so why not.
 
WI Crippler said:
They would literally have to do away with all the major bowls, or at the very least, delegate them to second tier status, for teams that did not make the "playoffs".
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How is this not already the case?
 

Are you ****ting me? PLEASE create a playoff, I HATE THE BCS!
 
The biggest problem is the money involved in the Bowl Game circle jerk that's going on.
 
MrVicchio said:
The biggest problem is the money involved in the Bowl Game circle jerk that's going on.
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I've heard that argument alot, and it makes sense. I still think the bowls could go on as playoff bowls, and no one would lose out, in fact, it would have the added benefit of allowing smaller schools a shot. The NCAA really made the BCS too complicated to make a cure all in one shot though, it would take a couple of years to really get the bugs out of the best thought out solutions.
 
MrVicchio said:
Are you ****ting me? PLEASE create a playoff, I HATE THE BCS!
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I agree 100%. I mean, if the government's going to go looking around for evidence of man made climate change or some other bull**** crusade they can go on to 'save us,' they might as well hold some hearings on a problem that...actually exists.

I'm ****ing hate the BCS. It's so unsatisfactory...Utah went undefeated this year and steamrolled Alabama in the Sugar Bowl yet they have no chance of getting to #1.
 
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