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

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 March Madness picks specific sites year in advance, that is how all those tickets get sold.(And then the traveling fans get to pay scalper prices to get good seats!) ? If you have ever worked with event planning - that would be a chore to set up all those games.? Look at the NIT - how many of those early games are sold out - and they pick the site not by the better team, but by attendance at games.? 


 


Steve Kauf
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-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Feldman <dlfeldman at ameritech.net>
To: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>; husker at tssi.com
Sent: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 1:05 pm
Subject: Re: [Husker] Congress to investigate BCS - bring it back to theBig-XII (sort of)










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.
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