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re: A Real Solution - might be a bit long so be warned
Posted on 8/18/21 at 4:52 pm to The Third
Posted on 8/18/21 at 4:52 pm to The Third
I can appreciate the thought and time you put into this. (Yes, I can actually read more than a paragraph without dozing off.) I think your list of assumptions about what will happen to college football in general is generally accurate, although I don't know if the Big 12 will implode quite as soon as you predict.
As for your proposed schedule, basically you've devised a pod system in everything but name. I do think that something similar to this is what the league might eventually come up with. The only difference in your proposal and others I've seen is that you group the pods according to traditional rivalries instead of geographic proximity. But, as someone pointed out, this leads to a bit of a competitive imbalance. (That's probably impossible to eliminate completely in any system.)
Again, I think we'll end up with pods; the controversy will be over how the pods are put together.
As for your proposed schedule, basically you've devised a pod system in everything but name. I do think that something similar to this is what the league might eventually come up with. The only difference in your proposal and others I've seen is that you group the pods according to traditional rivalries instead of geographic proximity. But, as someone pointed out, this leads to a bit of a competitive imbalance. (That's probably impossible to eliminate completely in any system.)
Again, I think we'll end up with pods; the controversy will be over how the pods are put together.
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Posted on 8/19/21 at 12:18 am to TigerCard
I have been a huge college football fan most of my life. I find the passion of the sport is derived from its tradition. I also realize traditional rivalry games make great TV and that is obviously the grease that is turning the wheels. Change that...the fuel driving the wheel. As a result I see a need to save or continue as many traditional game rivalries as possible, I also see proximity as key as well. I once lived and worked for a large pipeline company in Houston. We had a ton of engineers with degrees from LSU and Texas A&M. There was alway a "want" to brag or posture for next year. With sixteen teams sometimes proximity was not as easy as with others. I did not want Auburn to have the arduous annual schedule as it turned out. I am not an Aggie fan but having LSU, Texas and Oklahoma on thier annual plate might be bit over the top too. As far as Alabama is concerned, I would have loved to see thier pod a bit more competitive. The Tennessee Rivalry must be pretty big since the conference make several other senseless annual pairings to save it and the Iron Bowl is probably the most well known rivalry game in college football.
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