[Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS

[Aaron Wolfson]

The best proposal I've seen has been from Dan
Wetzel<http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-playoff120208>of
Yahoo. He suggests a 16-team tournament with home-site games and
automatic bids for every conference (which IMO is the part that makes it
work).

Aaron


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

> I am against a playoff, but if they ever did it I would hope they'd do a
> home-team system where the higher seeds host all the way up to the final
> game (played at a neutral field).
>
> I don't care if it's -20 degrees in Lincoln... :)
>
> --
> Skylar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Mike Jaixen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:11 AM
> To: David Strong; j j; Theodore Heise; Jon Johnston; Husker List; Mark
> Landin; Duane Feldman
> Subject: Re: [Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS
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> Actually, trying to set up predetermined sites for the preliminary rounds
> is
> going to be a logistical and financial nightmare.  It works for the NCAA
> Men's basketball tournament because (a) it's March Madness and (b) arenas
> only hold 15k-20k.  Bring in 8 teams from around the country, and if each
> brings 500 to 1,000 fans, you've already filled half the arena.  Supplement
> that with local ticket sales, and it's a very manageable event.
>
> Now extract that to football.  Make it 70,000 seat stadium and only 2
> teams.
> Teams don't know where they are playing until a week before the game, which
> is nearly impossible to put together charters in  time, and airlines will
> charge you the maximum rate possible for not booking early.  If the site is
> within 500 miles, many fans could drive, but that limits Nebraska to
> playing
> in Minneapolis, St. Louis, KC, Chicago, and Denver.
>
> How many fans are going to be able to head to Phoenix, Charlotte, Tampa, or
> Seattle on a week's notice?  Not enough to fill a football stadium.  The
> only way a neutral site game would work is if the local markets grab on and
> buy all the tickets for these preliminary games.  Problem with that is you
> get a neutral crowd who arrives late and leaves early and isn't into the
> game all that much, as compared to a partisan crowd.
>
> The NFL knows this, and that's why they play all of their preliminary games
> on home fields where you earn the right to play at home throughout the
> playoffs.  (Yes, that means the regular season is STILL meaningful, because
> going undefeated means you are playing at home for much of the playoffs,
> while sneaking in with a 9-3 record means you'll be on the road the whole
> way...)  Use the BCS formula as a baseline to select teams as well as seed
> them, and get strength of schedule back in the formula.  A USC should be
> rewarded for scheduling Florida (even if they lose) over scheduling
> Appalachian State as a non-conference opponent.
>
>  Mike Jaixen
> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
> http://www.cornnation.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com>
> To: j j <jjj112665 at yahoo.com>; Theodore Heise <theo at heise.nu>; Jon
> Johnston
> <jon.johnston at gmail.com>; Husker List <husker at tssi.com>; Mark Landin
> <marklandin at gmail.com>; Duane Feldman <dlfeldman at ameritech.net>
> Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 10:45:02 AM
> Subject: RE: [Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS
>
>
> There you go.  Certainly a workable scenario, one of many.  I don't really
> see your flaw as a flaw.  The BCS would go away if a tournament was ever
> instituted.  Accommodating bowls is irrelevant.  I expect that if a
> tournament is ever put in place, they will have predetermined, designated
> sites for the games, much like the basketball tournament.  Ex.  the
> quarters
> might be called "regionals" with sites for the games in cities within those
> regions.  Then the semis and finals elsewhere.  Probably change every year,
> or not.  Football games are big events and they would be easier to plan and
> promote if this was so.   But regardless,  all very doable.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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