[Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS

[Duane Feldman]

I personally like a 12 team format made up of BCS conference champs plus six
of the best non-BCS conf champ teams (at least 3 from non-BCS conferences).

Round 1:  Top four seeds draw a bye week while seeds #5-8 host seeds #9-12.
2nd week Dec
Round 2:  Top four seeds host winners of previous week w/ #1 hosting lowest
seeded winner, etc. 3rd week Dec
Round 3:  Two BCS bowl locations - Jan 1
Champ Game:  Third BCS bowl location - Jan 8 or so

UPSIDE:  One and only one host game each for top eight seeds.  Only two
travel games for finalists.  Access to non-BCS teams is broadly available.

FLAW:   Only three of the BCS bowl locations accommodated.  What happens to
#4?  

I haven't come up with a flawless system yet.  Let me work on it some more.

Duane Feldman



-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
David Strong
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:27 AM
To: j j; Theodore Heise; Jon Johnston; Husker List; Mark Landin
Subject: Re: [Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS

If we're talking about an 8 team tournament (I'd rather have 16) then 6 out
of the top 8 teams always go to what are now the BCS bowls.  The other two
top teams don't play in a bowl at all, they play in the BCS championship
game.  Doesn't affect the other gazillion brand-name bowls in any way.  Four
of those teams would be available for bowl games since the quarters would be
held in mid December.  So we are talking a minimal impact on the
availability of top teams to the bowls.

Look, the BCS honks have spent time and money convincing everyone how
complicated and hard to implement a tournament would be.  It isn't.  It's
not rocket science, it's not brain surgery, it's not a burden on the
players, it's not a conflict with exams.  It's money.

Dave


> Once you take out a good percentage
> of the "name" teams to fill out a
> tourney, the bowls lose a lot of their luster. Fewer elite
> teams
> equals less fan interest equals less advertising money
> equals lower
> payouts and bowl profitability. Bowls would become the NIT,
> basically
> ...



      

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