[Husker] End of the Season

[jon johnston]

Don, thanks for posting. It's good to have more voices. I have one  
HUGE problem with playoff scenarios. They tend to placate the bowls by  
keeping them in place.

So.... think about *your* team in that playoff. In consecutive weeks,  
Nebraska would have to play at the Sugar bowl, then at the Rose bowl,  
and then at the Fiesta bowl or the Orange Bowl to win a championship.

In other words, three road games that are basically home games for the  
Florida schools, the SEC, and the Pac-10. That would be nearly  
impossible, and as an alum of a cold-weather school, I'd rather start  
the riot by lighting the torches than have that happen.

People complain that Div IAA, Div II and Div III all have playoff  
systems, but those levels all play on a home-field advantage basis.

We've have 100 years of cold-weather schools going South and playing  
those teams in their home environments. If we're going to tear college  
football apart, then let's see Miami, Georgia, or LSU come up to Ann  
Arbor or Columbus, Ohio and win a game in December or January.

This won't happen. There's too many people getting rich off the bowls.  
There's too many college presidents who love taking their families,  
buddies, and servants on a paid-for vacation to warm weather areas for  
any of this to change.

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com

On Jan 4, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Don Mares wrote:

> Generally, I would agree college football is all about the money,  
> that is
> why we went to the conference championships right?  But there has to  
> be more
> to this argument.  I don't think you can ever lose the tradition of  
> the
> bowls so keep them, let everyone who qualifies play their bowl, keep  
> the
> chic fill a, alamo, holiday, citrus, pappajohns whoever bowls.  You  
> had a
> winning season, congratulations!  But the top 8 in the BCS get a  
> playoff and
> it goes through the top tier/BCS of the bowl system.  Unless I'm  
> missing
> something, there would be more games.  How could that not be more  
> money and
> let the marketing guys get a hold of a college football playoff?
>
> Currently you have your top 8 play in the BCS bowls (Rose, Fiesta,  
> Orange,
> Sugar + Championship) that's 5 games.  To do a playoff, those  
> initial 8
> (fuzzy math) play a total of 7 games.  You could work it into the same
> schedule also.  Those 7 games would be huge tv deals rivaling the nfl
> playoffs or ncaa final 4.  The first 4 could be played in the same  
> big bowl
> sites (rose, fiesta, orange, sugar) around christmas time or the week
> before.  Then you have the real final four jan 1 with 2 of those bowl
> sites rotating.  Since we're already playing the national  
> championship a
> week later (plus 1) keep it that way.  That gets played at another  
> BCS site
> and it sits out the final 3 next year since it had the championship  
> game the
> previous year.
>
> You are good enough in the regular season to make the top 8 and win  
> your
> last 3 games, I don't care who you are, Hawaii, Boise State, Illinois,
> Missouri, Kansas, LSU, USC, Ohio State you deserve the championship  
> and won
> it on the field, not in a voters booth.  For number 9, it used to be  
> number
> 3 so quit your bitching and work harder next year, you weren't good  
> enough,
> this is for the championship.  For all the normal bowls, just as  
> many fans
> that currently travel to the bowl site will continue, nothing is  
> changing.
> Now for those of us traveling to the big show, around the holidays,
> potentially 3 times, it may be harder but can you honestly tell me  
> fans are
> not going to be in the stands for the biggest playoff games of the  
> year in
> college football?
>
> This business about Ohio State not playing for 60 days gets tossed  
> also
> because they would have to play around christmas time or before.  Make
> everyone have a conference championship so its fair and throw even  
> more
> money in the pot.
>
> Now why can't we make this work?
>
> Don - new guy who keeps mostly quiet but wants a playoff!
>
>
> On 1/4/08, Bob Beach <baseballguy at neb.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mike and Kel wrote:
>>> Money does seem to be the ultimate factor. One big reason they use  
>>> for
>> not having playoffs is that it would extend the season. They don't  
>> seem to
>> mind stretching out the BCS games until the 7th for the TV revenues  
>> however.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>    Exactly, it is all about money.  It always is.  They don't care if
>> it extends the season until Christmas of 2011 or beyond.  When they  
>> tell
>> you it is all about the student/athlete I just want to puke.  It is
>> about money and that is all it is.  Prove to them a playoff will  
>> bring
>> them more money and we'll have a playoff system tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> Bob Beach
>>
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jon johnston
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