[Husker] End of the Season

Sat Jan 5 14:48:11 CST 2008

The Rose Bowl is much more than just football.

http://www.rosebowlhistory.org/

I know that I'm in the minority here, but I like the bowls.  In fact, I wish 
that they all would go back to the original tie-ins.  I don't need a playoff 
to tell me that the Huskers were the National Champions in 70, 71, 94, 95, 
and 97.  Yes, other schools (TX, PSU, Mich) who feel they won or shared 
parts of 70, 94, and 97, and that's OK with me.  They can feel any way they 
like.

Here's an interesting site.
http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html

According to that site, the Huskers were National Champions in at least one 
system in the following years:

97, 95, 94, 93, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 71, 70, and 15.

I like those numbers.

If we had a playoffs, how many championships would the Huskers have had? 
Hard to tell, but my guess would be significantly less than the above.

Finally, I've watched parts of almost all of the Bowl games this year.  Had 
there been a playoffs, and the Huskers weren't in them, I doubt I would have 
watched any, with the exception of the final game.

Tommy Thompson
"GO BIG RED"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Jaixen" <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
To: "jon johnston" <jon.johnston at gmail.com>; <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] End of the Season

> There's much more money in this if you play these
> playoff games at campus sites instead of in bowl
> games.  First of all, if you look at the capacities of
> college stadiums, they are usually much more than the
> bowl stadiums.
>
> Ohio State   101,568
> LSU           92,400
> Va Tech       66,233
> Oklahoma      82,112
> Georgia       92,746
> Missouri      68,349
> USC           92,000
> Kansas        50,250
>
> Rose Bowl     92,542
> SuperDome     69,703
> Miami Stadium 76,500
> Phoenix Stad. 73,719
>
> When you consider some of the other traditional powers
> not on this list (Michigan, Tennessee, and Penn State
> all have capacities near 110K, Florida over 90K,
> Nebraska and Texas over 85K), the extra attendance at
> each game could add up to another $1 million or more
> in revenue.  In the case of Kansas, they might look to
> move the game to Kansas City and Arrowhead if they
> thought they could sell the extra 30,000 tickets,
> especially if it meant another $3 million in revenue.
>
> Then, start questioning the commitment of fans to
> travel to three games at last minute, holiday
> airfares.  A USC game at the Rose Bowl won't have any
> problem selling out, much like an LSU game at the
> Superdome.  Those are easy drives.
>
> The NCAA basketball tournament survives at neutral
> sites because of the event itself; local fans buy the
> tickets with no knowledge as to who is playing.  The
> Omaha games for this year's tournament are already
> sold out, for example, with only a few hundred tickets
> held back for fans of each team.  That model simply
> isn't going to scale for a college football playoff
> system.
>
> The bowl system works because fans have weeks to work
> out travel plans and make a nice vacation out of it.
> Multiply the number of trips fans have to make and
> signifcantly reduce the timeframes to make plans, and
> it folds faster than Cosgrove's pass defense.
>
>
> --- jon johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Mike Jaixen
> Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com
>
>
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