College Playoff

[DaddyBigBucks]

Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye

OK, 23Skidoofus, he not qualifying Iowa being in the Alamo Bowl but rather he's qualifying if the Alamo Bowl (and thus Iowa) is "immediately preceeding" a playoff game, he's watching them both games, despite the fact he's not an Iowa fan.

I now see how big a mistake it was to post in this thread. I now have to comeback and settle a dispute over what I meant.

For future reference, MililaniBuckeye understands my writing style. He knows that when I use an overly specific reference that it can be taken to mean a reference to anything of the type. If there are further disputes about what I mean, and I don't chime in; it's because Mili is right again and I don't have anything further to add.

[Best Buckeye]

I for one am not a proponent of either choice here. I don't care if they have a playoff system. I would watch it if they did. Of course more money would be made over all thru TV and gate receipts. The question arises who controls that money.
The BCS schools split off from the ncaa because they thought they could strike a better deal and make more money than what they were receiving thru that organization. The ncaa fought tooth and nail to prevent that, but in the end the BCS won.
Now the BCS had all the power and control over college football marketing.
They got contracts with the media and the bowls over rights. Because the major schools are the money makers, not the mid majors.
So now we have an organization that controls the structure, the purse strings of collegiate football.
They are the supreme rulers. They have devised a methodology of how they want events to occur. They do not want any other group or organization to corrupt or influence that power.
In other words they want "it all". And they have it all. They may make changes if they see fit ie. the additional BCS bowl.
So in this vein proponents of a playoff may speak out all they want to, in the end the BCS will do want they want to.
They exert influence over the polls and the computers too. If any one steps out of line they simply take their ball and won't let the offender play anymore.
They are not listening.

[osugrad21]

Canton

Boise State?s stunning victory renews cry for national playoff
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
By Todd Porter REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. When Boise State was finished pulling out all the tricks, it had one more - tricking up college football's landscape with a thrilling New Year's Night overtime upset of Oklahoma.

[MuckFich06]

Yahoo Sports

Article by Josh Peters about Big 10 Commissioner Delany's role in the preventing a D-IA playoff. Very interesting, he even states the "academic" argument is ridiculous.

[sandgk]

That was an interesting read. Good thing he is on the side of our conference.

[Jaxbuck]

"There's no doubt in my mind that there's far more money out there than what we have," Delany said. "But there's also no doubt in my mind that there would be a huge sucking sound coming out of the regular season towards the postseason because I know, as a fact, that there is a consumer dollar, there is a marketing dollar, there is an advertising dollar and it's not an unlimited dollar.
"It's a migratory dollar. And the dollar tends to follow those areas of those elements of a competitive season that are most attractive. And right now what I would say is that we're at some sort of equilibrium of a bowl system and a championship game on the one hand. There's some gravitas from an economic perspective, from a public interest perspective in the regular season. I see there being a balance."

Most telling part of the whole thing and I agree 100%. A playoff of any type will take focus off of the regular season to some degree or another. The only question is the degree.