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How much influence did Roy Kramer have on the new playoff?
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:07 pm
Did he have any? If not, why did he see they change coming and jump ahead of it and influence the new playoff through the BCS?
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Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:08 pm to MontyFranklyn
I don't know what you are talking about but do you have a second to talk about jesus our lord and savior?
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:09 pm to MontyFranklyn
Roy Kramer : Influence :: Mettenberger : INT's vs Ole Miss
This post was edited on 7/9/14 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:11 pm to DingDongEddieStrong
There is a consensus that just taking the top 4 of the BCS would have been the simple solution. I just wonder why he didn't try to influence it more. I mean he had influenced CFB up to that point so why not
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:15 pm to MontyFranklyn
You should be glad he didn't. He was in favor of a plus-one system, the caveat being that only conference champions could qualify.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:18 pm to craigbiggio
quote:Through discussions and compromises, I'm sure he and the conference commissioners along with ND AD would have come up with a decision that would be best for all.
You should be glad he didn't. He was in favor of a plus-one system, the caveat being that only conference champions could qualify.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 4:01 pm to MontyFranklyn
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Did he have any? If not, why did he see they change coming and jump ahead of it and influence the new playoff through the BCS?
Roy Krammer and his right-hand man, Charlie Bloom, (now an Associate AD at SCAR) basically wrote the BCS system and implemented it ... but they felt the thing needed to be done gradually.
Remember, they got a lot of negative feedback from the rest of the country and the media in the beginning. It took a lot of tweaking and selling just to get the BCS system implemented.
At the time, when they mentioned a playoff system, it was like gut-shooting the rest of the Big 5 and the other conferences were downright adamant about not having a playoff system. ADs screamed it would cut them out of the money and Presidents screamed it would take the players away from the classroom during important exam times.
They pushed through what they could get everyone else to swallow and got us on a path to where we are now.
This is not the final step. The next step will be an eight team playoff. Twenty years from now we'll probably have a sixteen team playoff which is what we should have had all along.
It's simply all a gradual process.
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