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re: Rumors flying about 12 team playoffs coming.
Posted on 6/12/21 at 2:45 pm to the808bass
Posted on 6/12/21 at 2:45 pm to the808bass
If this kills off about 20 stupid half empty bowls that did not even exist a generation ago, I'm all for it!
How anyone can speak accusingly of Participation Trophies while wanting to preserve marginal bowl games for 6-6 or worse teams is beyond understanding.
How anyone can speak accusingly of Participation Trophies while wanting to preserve marginal bowl games for 6-6 or worse teams is beyond understanding.
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Posted on 6/12/21 at 4:02 pm to blueprint_one
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Yeah but bowl games kinda galvanize conference comraderies.
Mizzou, quite frankly, kinda needs that because everyone feels like we are STILL not SEC enough. I really like it when a Alabama fan or a Georgia fan is rooting for us in a bowl game.
Posted on 6/12/21 at 7:19 pm to Athos
Bowls should be about crowning a champ of a playoff series or rewarding lesser teams for solid winning seasons (at least 7 wins) with a bowl in a nice warm place(bahamas, orlando, san diego or hawaii) not shreveport, memphis and nashville. Too many bowl games that don’t matter.
The big four bowls plus the championship gamegenerate nearly $600 million while all the others generate less than $100 million combined
The big four bowls plus the championship gamegenerate nearly $600 million while all the others generate less than $100 million combined
Posted on 6/13/21 at 10:54 am to pauliebleaker
From a recruiting stand point we need this. You can't sell Luther Burden on being top 4, but with his talent, top 12 is easily within our grasp. Give Drink a new indoor facility and 12 team playoff and watch the man work.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 2:16 pm to surgicalvenom
I think this is great, and am amazed the Committee made this leap. But I can see that NIL coupled with the Xfer Portal may have been a heavy factor. Allowing talent to continue to concentrate in 4 or 5 teams would ultimately been a disaster for CFB as a whole.
I've long said that as regards the championship the regular season is meaningless for over 90% of division one teams, and has been for over 50 years. We went from a beauty pagent to an exclusive invitational, with the invitations based on ever changing subjective criteria. (you could almost see the thought bubbles drifting above the selection committee "How can we justify X and get them in?) In retrospect, the 4 team playoff may have been the worst way to go, so of course the NCAA went that way.
Now, we have a hard objective. Get to your conference championship. Win and you're in. Lose and you still might get an At Large. Moreover, now I pay attention to the G5, because a hot G5 team becomes a threat to displace me from an at large bid. Football (and recruiting) across the country becomes relevant. Having it start in 23 is also a benefit, as coach's can begin selling it right now to high school recruits. To wait longer would be a mistake.
Will it kill off a bunch of meaningless Mayonaise bowls? Lord I hope so!
I find it interesting that Greg Sankey seems to have been the major force driving this. Sankey has always been a big picture guy, to the fury of some SEC fans, but he's clearly thinking of Division one CF as a whole, though this will undoubtedly benefit the SEC as well.
And yes, think of what Drink can do with this in his back pocket!
I've long said that as regards the championship the regular season is meaningless for over 90% of division one teams, and has been for over 50 years. We went from a beauty pagent to an exclusive invitational, with the invitations based on ever changing subjective criteria. (you could almost see the thought bubbles drifting above the selection committee "How can we justify X and get them in?) In retrospect, the 4 team playoff may have been the worst way to go, so of course the NCAA went that way.
Now, we have a hard objective. Get to your conference championship. Win and you're in. Lose and you still might get an At Large. Moreover, now I pay attention to the G5, because a hot G5 team becomes a threat to displace me from an at large bid. Football (and recruiting) across the country becomes relevant. Having it start in 23 is also a benefit, as coach's can begin selling it right now to high school recruits. To wait longer would be a mistake.
Will it kill off a bunch of meaningless Mayonaise bowls? Lord I hope so!
I find it interesting that Greg Sankey seems to have been the major force driving this. Sankey has always been a big picture guy, to the fury of some SEC fans, but he's clearly thinking of Division one CF as a whole, though this will undoubtedly benefit the SEC as well.
And yes, think of what Drink can do with this in his back pocket!
This post was edited on 6/13/21 at 2:35 pm
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