[Husker] Congress to investigate BCS - bring it back to theBig-XII (sort of)

[Duane Feldman]

I think semifinals would NOT appear 2/3rds empty with a national title on the line.  Yes, arrangements would be a challenge, but perhaps two weeks between games would take care of the scheduling issues.  I do think fans would follow just like they now follow March Madness on the road, except that there would only be two road trips for the top four teams, three for #5-8 and four for any #9-12 team that made it to the finals.  That final group might start to get depleted if they upset their way into the finals, but the fans would go berserk I'm sure.

Duane Feldman




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From: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
To: Duane Feldman <dlfeldman at ameritech.net>; husker at tssi.com
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:55:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Congress to investigate BCS - bring it back to theBig-XII (sort of)


Who's traveling to these semifinal games at "bowl" sites with just one or two week's lead time, and a national championship game one week later at another site?

I'm just curious, because a semi-final game in Miami will be 2/3rd's empty unless a Florida team is playing.  Not because Miami isn't an attractive destination, it's just expensive to fly to and with so little advance time, no time to put together charters.

If a playoff happens, the semifinals will be played on home fields, just like in the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, 1-AA, MLS, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Mike Jaixen http://huskermike.blogspot.com http://www.cornnation.com

--- On Fri, 1/16/09, Duane Feldman <dlfeldman at ameritech.net> wrote:


Round 3 hosted by bowls:
#1 remaining v #4 remaining
#2 remaining v #3 remaining

Round 4:
two remaining teams.

The good of this plan:
Minimal travel for fans of teams (max two games exc #9-12)
Reason to play for position (home field, byes)
Only one home game per team 
8 teams host games
12 is better (IMHO) than 8 or 16

The bad:
Only three bowls involved.  Which three?  (of Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, Rose)
What happens to remaining to remaining major bowl(s)?
With this plan, top twelve teams are out for all but the 3 bowls, so enough teams to support remaining bowls (six fewer teams available)?

But that is the reason we don't have a playoff, every system has disadvantages.