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re: Myth: "The BCS/CFP ruined college football by making all other bowl games irrelevant."
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:13 pm to Ag Zwin
Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:13 pm to Ag Zwin
Bowls have always been shite. Unless it was Sugar, Orange, Fiesta or Rose, no one cared much even back then. The thing that's changed is they've added a shitload more bowls now which makes it even worse.
And players are leaving for the NFL earlier today than they did in the AP era. You almost never heard of players leaving after their Soph year for the NFL when I was young. People usually stayed through their senior season, no matter how good they were. (Not sure if the rules were different back then or what).
The playoff era is far superior to the old AP or BCS system. In fact, it needs to go to 8 teams. Then we'd have 6 or 8 bowls on top of that for teams to fight over their final ranking in the top 25.
And players are leaving for the NFL earlier today than they did in the AP era. You almost never heard of players leaving after their Soph year for the NFL when I was young. People usually stayed through their senior season, no matter how good they were. (Not sure if the rules were different back then or what).
The playoff era is far superior to the old AP or BCS system. In fact, it needs to go to 8 teams. Then we'd have 6 or 8 bowls on top of that for teams to fight over their final ranking in the top 25.
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Posted on 1/4/21 at 9:25 pm to AUstar
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Bowls have always been shite. Unless it was Sugar, Orange, Fiesta or Rose, no one cared much even back then.
That's not true. Plenty of non-major bowl games used to be sell-outs or very close to it
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You almost never heard of players leaving after their Soph year for the NFL when I was young. People usually stayed through their senior season, no matter how good they were. (Not sure if the rules were different back then or what).
Well one, freshman weren't eligible to play until the 70s. Other than that, nothing has changed much with the rules so much as 1) the NFL is willing to draft younger players more now than before and 2) the money wasn't as big and the value of a degree for players dwarfed what it means now with so many players making life changing money with their rookie contracts. 25 years ago, the #1 pick in the draft, Keyshawn Johnson, signed a $15 million dollar contract with 6.5 million guaranteed. The last pick of the 1st round that year, Andre Johnson, signed a 2 year deal for 3.7 million with 985k guaranteed. Now you have guys in the bottom of the first making what the #1 pick made 25 years ago and day 3 picks making what bottom of the first round guys made.
This post was edited on 1/4/21 at 9:26 pm
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