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Who Would Pay For The 8 Team Playoff??
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:32 pm
I hear everyone wanting an 8 team playoff but who is going to pay all of this?
How is each university that makes the playoff going to pay for this? Are the universities to pick up the tab for all the travel expenses for these additional games or do you raise regular season ticket prices to cover the "possibility" of making the playoffs?
What happens if a university can't sell their ticket allotment in the first few rounds and fans are not able to travel to every game? Who is going to pay for this?
Are the first few rounds a home game for the higher seeds and if so who picks up the tab for the travel expenses for the lower seeds?
Yes each team that makes the playoff gets a small amount of the bowl payout directly to them and the rest goes into the pot to be divided up among the rest of the SEC but is this fair? Is it fair to make the teams that make the playoffs that have the now extra expenses to share the pot money with the teams that don't make the playoffs but reap the benefits of the additional money?
Do we go back to a 10 game schedule and lose the revenue of the additional regular season home games or just raise ticket prices to cover only having 10 games?
All these additional expenses have to made up somewhere and I think in the end it will come back on an increase in season ticket prices.
Thoughts?
How is each university that makes the playoff going to pay for this? Are the universities to pick up the tab for all the travel expenses for these additional games or do you raise regular season ticket prices to cover the "possibility" of making the playoffs?
What happens if a university can't sell their ticket allotment in the first few rounds and fans are not able to travel to every game? Who is going to pay for this?
Are the first few rounds a home game for the higher seeds and if so who picks up the tab for the travel expenses for the lower seeds?
Yes each team that makes the playoff gets a small amount of the bowl payout directly to them and the rest goes into the pot to be divided up among the rest of the SEC but is this fair? Is it fair to make the teams that make the playoffs that have the now extra expenses to share the pot money with the teams that don't make the playoffs but reap the benefits of the additional money?
Do we go back to a 10 game schedule and lose the revenue of the additional regular season home games or just raise ticket prices to cover only having 10 games?
All these additional expenses have to made up somewhere and I think in the end it will come back on an increase in season ticket prices.
Thoughts?
This post was edited on 12/31/14 at 3:34 pm
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Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:34 pm to RT2391
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Who Would Pay The 8 Team Playoff??
These games will have to be played in a home stadium,....no one is about to do all that traveling or the stadiums will be mighty fricking empty until the semis or finals.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:36 pm to JordonfortheJ
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These games will have to be played in a home stadium,....no one is about to do all that traveling or the stadiums will be mighty fricking empty until the semis or finals.
No shite. Who has the kind of money to drop 500$ plus for each game? 4 games later and 2k lighter that simply wouldn't be worth it for me. Unless I was getting a goddamned ring - frick that.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:38 pm to JordonfortheJ
Now what if you are a lower seed who pays for those travel expenses? Do you raise regular season ticket prices?
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:45 pm to RT2391
4 teams is the right number. Any more than 4 and they would be charity cases and this is football not UNICEF. More than four would mean you would have a lot of empty seats, empty hotel rooms and so forth. In most years, your top 2-3 will be clearly defined and you will have a group of fairly equal teams behind them looking to fill the other one or two slots. I am perfectly fine with a few teams getting left out.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:46 pm to RT2391
There would be more than enough $ to cover 4 additional on campus games just from TV revenue alone.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:50 pm to artompkins
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4 teams is the right number. Any more than 4 and they would be charity cases and this is football not UNICEF. More than four would mean you would have a lot of empty seats, empty hotel rooms and so forth. In most years, your top 2-3 will be clearly defined and you will have a group of fairly equal teams behind them looking to fill the other one or two slots. I am perfectly fine with a few teams getting left out.
This is completely absurd. There are 5 power conferences, and there are always a few teams who don't win their conference, maybe lost a game early in the year, but who could make a run in the playoffs. An 8 team playoff is what they will be doing in 10 years. For the next 10 years, every year, a few teams EVERY YEAR are going to have arguments for 'should've been in the 4 team playoffs."
TCU is a perfect example. Bama is lucky they didn't have to play TCU instead of OhSt. That TCU team that played today would've beat bama.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:51 pm to RT2391
Who cares.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:53 pm to RT2391
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How is each university that makes the playoff going to pay for this? Are the universities to pick up the tab for all the travel expenses for these additional games or do you raise regular season ticket prices to cover the "possibility" of making the playoffs?
Are you under the impression schools pay for this now?
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:54 pm to TeLeFaWx
Coming from a team that has shite the bed for the last decade I understand your frustration of not being able to take part in a civilized conversation.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:55 pm to the808bass
Oh I know they do. That's why my season tickets have gone up each fricking year since Tide Pride started in 1988.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:56 pm to CockInYourEar
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That TCU team that played today would've beat bama.
and you know this how?
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:57 pm to CockInYourEar
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TCU is a perfect example. Bama is lucky they didn't have to play TCU instead of OhSt. That TCU team that played today would've beat bama.
You can say that now after the caught some fire in a bowl game but they have looked just as shitty as everyone else during the regular season, aka almost losing to Kansas. They have only themselves to blame for playing one of the worst OOC schedules in college football, losing to Baylor, the only decent team they played, and nearly losing to Kansas. They aint all that.
Posted on 12/31/14 at 3:57 pm to RT2391
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Oh I know they do. That's why my season tickets have gone up each fricking year since Tide Pride started in 1988.
They don't. Your Tide is getting a couple million in travel expenses from the CFB. Will get more if you win the first game.
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