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re: OldArmy FightCast Ep 9: "No More Football?!...."
Posted on 1/15/15 at 7:09 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 1/15/15 at 7:09 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Thanks T-Bird, you are good people too. 
I do disagree the playoff cheapened the regular season though. We went from having a pile of teams having a good season (everyone winning a conference, everyone in a BCS bowl, and the two in the title game) to now four teams have a good season. With the death of that BCS bowl level tier now the air is thin at the top, but everyone is so obsessed with the playoffs just being a co-champion of your one true champion conference isn't enough anymore.
In the BCS days and before it was so random to win a national title so no one counted on it as a way to judge their program. Michigan's highest regarded coach was huge on this idea, maybe because he never won one. Back then conference championships matter more. Now it's playoffs or bust unless you are a program whose ceiling is a bowl. Not only does this make it so that most seasons of most top programs are unsatisfactory by definition, it completely blocks the Boise Sts of the world because with only 4 spots who wants to share?
I do disagree the playoff cheapened the regular season though. We went from having a pile of teams having a good season (everyone winning a conference, everyone in a BCS bowl, and the two in the title game) to now four teams have a good season. With the death of that BCS bowl level tier now the air is thin at the top, but everyone is so obsessed with the playoffs just being a co-champion of your one true champion conference isn't enough anymore.
In the BCS days and before it was so random to win a national title so no one counted on it as a way to judge their program. Michigan's highest regarded coach was huge on this idea, maybe because he never won one. Back then conference championships matter more. Now it's playoffs or bust unless you are a program whose ceiling is a bowl. Not only does this make it so that most seasons of most top programs are unsatisfactory by definition, it completely blocks the Boise Sts of the world because with only 4 spots who wants to share?
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Posted on 1/15/15 at 7:25 pm to cardboardboxer
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In the BCS days and before it was so random to win a national title so no one counted on it as a way to judge their program. Michigan's highest regarded coach was huge on this idea, maybe because he never won one. Back then conference championships matter more. Now it's playoffs or bust
I hear ya. My mom (Michigan alum, as you know), actually says the same thing--the rush to crown a true national champion has devalued the accomplishment of winning one's conference. She can't remember who was named AP #1, but she remembers the years UM won the Big Ten. I can definitely understand that side of the argument as well.
I will say, this, though--as huge as CFB is now, I don't think it's fair to expect it to have continued to be so regional in nature. And tbh, I felt that the drama produced by having a 4 horse race for the big dance instead of two gave more teams something to chase--seemed the drama was compelling right up to the various CCGs.
Idk, I guess there's never gonna be a system that placates everyone, though. And that's ok--win, lose, or draw, CFB will always have the most passionate fans in sport, IMO
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