[Husker] Not Husker - Dreaming of a playoff

[Don Mares]

Agreed...But don't you think anything more than one loss a year and even
that puts you in a very risky position to never make this field.

Don

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> --
>
> 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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