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WHY A PLAYOFF SYSTEM WILL NOT WORK
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:01 pm
8 teams - one of them is uconn- whoever they play has it's qb hurt early in the game - playing the game in the orange bowl - uconn upsets the team & wins - has to go to the west coast - same thing happens - they win again - go to the championship game in arizona - and all this time their fan base is not buying tickets - like is happening now - millioms of dollars of tickets not purchased - who eats that
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Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:04 pm to TIGER62
Why a thread won't work....see above
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:05 pm to TIGER62
using bowls for playoffs won't work. you can't have neutral sites in playoffs....there has to be a home team
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:08 pm to TIGER62
So you think the BCS, who matched up Alabama and Texas last year, is better? I think I remember a quarterback going down early in that game.
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Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:09 pm to TIGER62
AMERICA ......frick YEAH!!!!!!!
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:10 pm to memphisplaya
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:13 pm to TIGER62
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all this time their fan base is not buying tickets - like is happening now
so it is already happening so how can it be worse?
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:42 pm to TIGER62
Why is one of them UCONN? If you are going to set up a playoff of any sort, you dont have the automatic bids that got UCONN in a BCS game to begin with. You take the top 8 ranked teams (or whatever number is determined to play) and they play it out to determine a true Champion. Rankings determine seedings.
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:43 pm to TIGER62
well if it was a playoff i might watch and care about the uconn game.
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:45 pm to TIGER62
quote:uconn is eating it this year.
millioms of dollars of tickets not purchased - who eats that
Posted on 12/22/10 at 7:55 pm to jjbodean1970
FCS playoffs work just fine.
I can't understand why anyone believes the BCS schools couldn't make playoffs work when smaller schools have no trouble crowning a champion without any controversy whatsoever.
I can't understand why anyone believes the BCS schools couldn't make playoffs work when smaller schools have no trouble crowning a champion without any controversy whatsoever.
Posted on 12/22/10 at 8:12 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
my question is how affordable is the playoff system for the fanbase. SEC CG tix were, at the least, $85. How much would each playoff game be?
Posted on 12/22/10 at 8:21 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
FCS playoffs work in stadia that seat maybe 30,000 and aren't filled, even for the championship games. Travel and cost for playoff games would be an issue for fans. Remember, many college campuses are not where their largest fan bases are located.
Posted on 12/22/10 at 9:09 pm to tossedoff
And yet FCS playoffs still makes money. Does anyone believe that BCS schools wouldn't travel well, or fill their own stadiums?
Remember, in FCS-style playoffs, the lower-seeded team travels to play in the stadium of the higher-seeded team. Except for the championship game.
LSU would have no problem selling out Tiger Stadium for a playoff game against Ohio State. Or travelling well to Columbus if the Buckeyes were the higher seed.
Remember, in FCS-style playoffs, the lower-seeded team travels to play in the stadium of the higher-seeded team. Except for the championship game.
LSU would have no problem selling out Tiger Stadium for a playoff game against Ohio State. Or travelling well to Columbus if the Buckeyes were the higher seed.
This post was edited on 12/22/10 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 12/22/10 at 9:12 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
so LSU would have no problem traveling to Ohio one week and then Oregon the next?
Posted on 12/22/10 at 9:18 pm to GAMErebelCOCK
it wouln't matter because tosu and oregon would sell out anyway...thast's why i said you would have to do away with bowl games and go with home games
Posted on 12/22/10 at 10:20 pm to GAMErebelCOCK
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so LSU would have no problem traveling to Ohio one week and then Oregon the next?
From what standpoint? Fans, or level of competition?
We play in the SEC West, the toughest division in CFB. We're used to playing tough teams in consecutive weeks. And Tiger fans don't just travel, they take over.
Posted on 12/22/10 at 10:26 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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FCS playoffs work just fine.
I can't understand why anyone believes the BCS schools couldn't make playoffs work when smaller schools have no trouble crowning a champion without any controversy whatsoever.
I'll give you my quick assraping of this "FCS can do it argument:.
1. Smaller fanbases to move. It's a helluva lot easier to get under 10,000 fans to buy $20 tickets than to get 75,000 plus fans to buy $50 and above tickets.
2. Their number one seed had 2 losses. The frick? BTW, before you bring up LSU, LSU wasn't number 1 in the BCS AND they won their conference.
3. They have never had a bowl system anyways.
4. I like potato chips.
5. The top 24 (I believe that's the number of playoff teams they have) don't always make the playoffs.
6. Profit.
Posted on 12/22/10 at 11:06 pm to GamecockAlum
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I'll give you my quick assraping of this "FCS can do it argument:.
1. Smaller fanbases to move. It's a helluva lot easier to get under 10,000 fans to buy $20 tickets than to get 75,000 plus fans to buy $50 and above tickets.
2. Their number one seed had 2 losses. The frick? BTW, before you bring up LSU, LSU wasn't number 1 in the BCS AND they won their conference.
3. They have never had a bowl system anyways.
4. I like potato chips.
5. The top 24 (I believe that's the number of playoff teams they have) don't always make the playoffs.
6. Profit.
I'll leave you to the assraping. I'll just refute your arguments like this:
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1. Smaller fanbases to move. It's a helluva lot easier to get under 10,000 fans to buy $20 tickets than to get 75,000 plus fans to buy $50 and above tickets.
How is this different from weekly play in the SEC? When the 11th then 12th games were added, most schools like LSU had no problem selling the additional games. Playoff games wouldn't be any different.
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2. Their number one seed had 2 losses. The frick? BTW, before you bring up LSU, LSU wasn't number 1 in the BCS AND they won their conference.
How is this different from the BCS again? And what does it matter if it is? Settling things on the field would make controversies irrelevant.
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3. They have never had a bowl system anyways.
The bowl system reached it's sell-by date long ago.
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4. I like potato chips.
Me, too. Zap's FTW.
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5. The top 24 (I believe that's the number of playoff teams they have) don't always make the playoffs.
Would be even less of a problem with the BCS schools.
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6. Profit.
More to be made from playoffs, and especially by smaller schools, than was ever true with the bowls. Most bowl teams lose money on the deal.
This post was edited on 12/22/10 at 11:08 pm
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