Fwd: Re: [Husker] BCS playoff

[Russ Volberding]

One factor that might have to be considered is game attendance.  Suppose a 
team needs to win two games to reach the championship game.  Would the fans 
travel to the first two games and the championship game?  Would they have 
the money to attend all three, or just one?  Which game?  Do they go to the 
first round and then not have the cash to go to the next round?  Or does 
the NCAA not worry about the participating schools's fan base traveling and 
make the championship game a corporate and celebrity event like the Superbowl?
This may be one of the main arguments against a championship tournament.


>I would think somewhere there has to be a system
>involving playoffs that could generate the same kind
>of money the bowls do now. I dont know what that is
>but here is what I would like to see. The top 16 teams
>in a playoff with the first 3 rounds played at the
>higher ranked teams home field. All gate money in each
>round is split between the teams in that round. The
>championship game would be played at a neutral site
>determined like the Super Bowl is.  The bowls could
>continue for the other 101 teams that dont make the
>playoffs. Other than the 4 BCS bowls I would think
>they  would probably draw as much interest as they do
>now.
>--- Bob Beach <rrbeach at rrbeach.com> wrote:
>
> > At 08:26 AM 1/8/2005, Jason wrote:
> >
> > >In the sports section of today's Journal Star there
> > is an article about
> > >the Division I-A commissioners meeting on Friday.
> > I found the
> > >following quote striking: "There was no discussion
> > of a
> > >playoff...because there is no interest from school
> > presidents and
> > >chancellors for such a system."
> > >
> > >Are the presidents and chancellors that out of
> > touch that they don't
> > >register this as an issue?  Not even a freakin'
> > discussion!  As a UNL
> > >student and registered voter, I want to make it
> > clear to the president
> > >that it's an issue for me.  This problem will never
> > be solved until we
> > >start to hold people accountable.
> >
> >
> >
> >       I don't disagree with you but I think I might
> > know the reason they
> > may be showing little interest.  It's like
> > everything else.  Follow the
> > money trail.  I can't remember who I was listening
> > to about two weeks ago,
> > probably Rome or Patrick, and they were dealing with
> > this very
> > subject.  The point was being made was that college
> > presidents are
> > basically watching one thing and that is the bottom
> > line.  With that comes
> > fund raising.  They aren't remotely interested in if
> > the system is fair or
> > not.  They just know with the present system they
> > are making money.  The
> > radio personality made the point if someone could
> > show the college
> > presidents that by going to a playoff system more
> > money would be produced
> > we would have a playoff system in place virtually
> > over night.  Until
> > someone can convince them of that we will continue
> > the way we are.  So, no
> > I don't think to college presidents whether or not
> > the present system is
> > producing a real National Champion or not is an
> > issue.  It will only become
> > an issue when the bank account is affected.
> >
> >
> > Bob Beach
> > >
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