[Husker] The fed bringing the hear on the BCS

[Scott Lawson]

What's so difficult about having a "X" number of teams playoff bracket AND 32 other bowl games to keep the revenue stream flowing? A playoff means even MORE high quality games to generate revenue for all involved.

And to those who argue the team that finishes one spot out of the playoff is being robbed, it happens in just about every other sport and we really don't hear much about how they get robbed. I am a Steelers fan, they didn't make the dance this year because the Jets got let in, but that's tough, the Steelers should have beaten Oakland and Cleveland and they'd have been in.

A playoff is LONG overdue in my opinion, and quite frankly I don't mind if Washington gets involved, but it shouldn't HAVE to get involved.

Scott in NY


--- On Sat, 1/30/10, Jeff Sr - Hotmail <huskers_001 at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Jeff Sr - Hotmail <huskers_001 at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Husker] The fed bringing the hear on the BCS
To: "'Husker List'" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 3:45 PM

Fellow Husker Fans,

    Some folks seem to forget the financial payout for many of these
bowls; especially the BCS.  The conferences benefit and split the funds out
to the member schools.  Without the bowl games, we may not have some of the
other college sports.

Jeff Brown
a.k.a. Huskers1

-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
David Strong
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 1:41 PM
To: Dick Karre
Cc: Husker List
Subject: Re: [Husker] The fed bringing the hear on the BCS


> Why? What changes for the bowls? As it is today, only one
> bowl geme "matters" in the sense that it determines the MNC,
> yet we have over thirty bowl games. I've heard this argument
> before, but I really do not understand it.

Not to nitpick, but the BCS championship game isn't a bowl anymore.  All of
the bowls, BCS or otherwise, are the same.  They are exhibition games played
for profit.  Some have big pay, some not so big, that's the only difference.
But other than that, they don't mean anything.  Over half the teams in the
FBS go to bowl games, so it's pretty funny when you hear that a team was
successful because they went to a bowl.  7-5, lots of them, go to bowls.
6-6, lots of them, go to bowls.  Hooray, we got invited to the Allstate
Sugar bowl, or the Emerald Bowl, or the Papa Johns bowl, or the ChikfilA
bowl, or the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.  Hooray, we won the Capitol One bowl, or
the Outback bowl, or the Insight Bowl, or the Pacific Life Holiday bowl.
Awesome.

Dave


      

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