[Husker] Not Husker - Dreaming of a playoff

[Skylar Dodds]

First, let me say that I hope college football NEVER goes to a playoff.
College football is the best COMPLETE SEASON of any sport on any level.  A
loss in almost any other sport does not mean much by itself, but in college
football, it's everything.

 

In the NFL, if the Jets played in college football, last night's pasting
from the Pats would have meant their NC dreams are over and that game would
have a life or death atmosphere.  Instead, it's "Oh well, we got our tails
whipped, we'll fix things and move on".

 

In college basketball, regular season games rarely mean anything at all.
Maybe in the home stretch when it determines seeding for a conference
tourney or something, but that's even a yawner.  Yeah, you get 7 really
exciting games at the end of the year, but that's after 30 snooze-fests.

 

In college football, every game is live or die if you have a MNC hopeful
team.  Every game.  It's exciting, it's edge of your seat, it's everything
you could want from sports.  Yes, some teams that aren't anywhere in the
discussion have less exciting seasons, but there's college pride because
it's a local game that keeps them coming in those situations.  Plus, they're
still playing to get to a decent bowl.  And don't say, "The other bowls
don't mean anything" because they DO mean something to the players.  

 

Second, contacting your congressman is the worst thing you can do.  There is
probably a list somewhere of people that should be involved in whether or
not college football should have a playoff and Congress is either not on
that list or at the VERY bottom.  Elected officials should not be trying to
control college football.  We've already got one corrupt organization (NCAA)
controlling everything, we don't need 2.

 

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Skylar

 

From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Don Mares
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:36 PM
To: "Husker List"
Subject: [Husker] Not Husker - Dreaming of a playoff

 

Interesting article dreaming about a playoff.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/College-football-playoff-syst
em-thats-better-than-BCS-opinion-120610

I'm a huge fan of a playoff and quite frankly can't understand how we still
accept not having one.  I like most everything he says.  Although, I think
we got lucky to avoid much controversy and everyone screaming for a playoff
this year so we can settle for acceptable BCS games, fiesta bowl
withstanding.  I think its a disservice that #9 Michigan State (11-1) and
#10 Boise State (11-1) are left out in the cold while less deserving #13
Virginia Tech (11-2) and unranked UConn (8-4) are in BCS bowls.  This
article doesn't really stop that from happening but still gives those
deserving an opportunity to get in.

I do think this solves a lot of road blocks.  Namely, the first round is at
home, final 7 games are at neutral sites - people will travel to fill up
those remaining incredibly important and exciting games to be a part of
history.  The four major BCS bowl sites still get to host something major
every year - likely elite 8.  One of them still gets the national
championship just like we do today.  If you want, you can rotate and say 2
of them get to host the final four over what they do today although cotton
bowl and others would cry foul over that.  No matter how you slice it, this
is going to generate a whole lot more money and excitement than we do now.
Although to be fair, you should stipulate all conferences that have an
automatic birth need to have an "extra" championship game.  If you wanted,
you could also require all teams are ranked within the final standings of
the bcs top 25.

Still play the 35 other minor bowls with similar schedules.  They aren't any
more or less significant than they are today.  It's a good tradition and
reward worth honoring.

The one major argument to this approach that I can envision is teams are
made up of college students.  They have to prepare for and play the biggest
games of their careers during finals week.  I think you could still make it
work.  Push it back a week like we do now and play the final four on jan 1
and the national championship a week later.  This will give everyone an
extra week so the students get two weeks before their next game while they
are taking finals.  That also allows teams that get into the tournament a
chance to rest and heal up.

How do we make this happen?  Everyone write your senator-congressman and/or
start an online petition of signatures and present to ESPN on ABC?

Don
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