[Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS

[Aaron Wolfson]

>
> Ugh, a 3 game series would be terrible in football, and probably not all
> that great
> in NCAA basketball.
>
> The most enjoyable bowl games this past season were ones involving teams
> that
> wouldn't have made a top 4, top 8 or possibly even top 16 playoff.
>


Well, Mike, I'm not suggesting that a 3-game series be used in football, but
that's what the equivalent would be in basketball, I believe. Also, I'm not
attempting to account for differences in taste between the sports; I'm
assuming in this hypothetical scenario that one likes them both equally. But
I do agree that perhaps the sports are not as comparable as I want them to
be.

To your final point, the same can be said about March Madness; the best game
in the tourney a couple years ago was Kansas-Davidson, who would have
predicted that? And that's a matchup you would never, EVER, see without a
tournament of some kind, just like you could replay this football season
over and over and maybe never see a big school take on a small school at the
elite level of competition.

I don't know what to do about the argument that the bowls and a playoff
can't survive simultaneously. My feeling is that they could, but that's one
of those things we can debate endlessly, and we'll never know what would
happen unless it happens, you know?

Aaron


On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > Here's a question for the bowl supporters: do you enjoy March Madness?
>
> Not really, the first two rounds seldom produce an upset and basketball has
> become a game for excessively tall people.
>
> > How
> > would you feel if instead of a 64-team tournament, the champion was
> > determined by a 3-game series between the top two teams, as rated by a
> > BCS-like formula? Or even a tournament with the top 4 teams, or 8? Or
> even
> > no tournament at all, with the top rated team declared "champion." Would
> you
> > prefer that to March Madness? Why do we never hear anyone clamor for such
> a
> > thing?
>
> Ugh, a 3 game series would be terrible in football, and probably not all
> that great
> in NCAA basketball.
>
> The most enjoyable bowl games this past season were ones involving teams
> that
> wouldn't have made a top 4, top 8 or possibly even top 16 playoff.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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