stang22

Might be best to follow the lead of our own team and just play the game and let the results speak for themselves.....

Love it, we had a lot of shared experiences!

Funny, I ended up coaching as a career and had my team at Mizzou the last summer that Coach Stewart ran camps. He actually went out with the coaches that year, which he never did in the past. After a bit of imbibing, I revelaed to him that during my four years working with him that I'd become thoroughly convinced that my middle name was "Damn". :lol:

How does every level of college football, without the luxury of immense staffs, premium transportation options, lodging choices, etc put on a large tournament-style playoff but the one level that has the resources to do so seemingly can’t?

(Yes, I get the whole bowl history.)

Maybe the CFP honchos should bring in the NAIA folks to figure out how to do all this??

The question that will determine any movement up or down or stay the same on number of teams in the playoffs boils down simply to this: Will people watch?

Yep, that's why it goes to 16 (and for my money, higher seed at home in first-round and quarterfinals).

When you're 6-6 and won a game you normally lose, you're happy to go anywhere. The lobby effort is for who we get as an opponent. Vegas would be fine too.

How could you not max out attendance and revenue for your event by inviting our Tigers and neighbors from west of KC?

I daresay you'd be in the top attendance/capacity of any bowl outside the Playoffs and New Years Day 6.

Rarely does a non-factor bowl get an opportunity like this.

Oh I get the Mizzou jokes, it's all good. We're still the new guys for another year or two (and will always be to some of you-same as Carolina and Arky).

But man, personal experience with the Horns.....you have no idea how big a deal it was for us to get away from decades with our Big 8 schools and you can pinpoint it all back to the actions of one school. No doubt in my mind this is a way to prep for their entry and what might go down with them in the fold.

For everyone saying no, I have one question for you:

"Will you watch the expanded playoff?"

Yeah, me too.

Round one top four get byes. All sets up for 8 teams after that.

1. The track: Agreed. It's lame. Way back in the day, that was an actual dirt track used for competitions. Of course, we're talking a looooooooong time ago. Now, instead of dirt, it's blacktop and serves one purpose, that being to be a road for Truman the Tiger's Mizzou fire engine to drive around the field prior to the game so he can shoot a water cannon at the kids. Kind've neat when you see it, but NOT worth a world-class athlete like your WR tearing a knee up.

2. The grass: Again, agreed but we have an issue here. The stadium has had grass before and it doesn't work. Someone else can give the science but our stadium site sits on an incredibly huge piece of bedrock and at some angle to the sun and water table that grass (or at least SEC-worthy grass) just won't take hold. With the advancements in turf, we're not as far back from having real grass as we were when we had the infamous Omni-turf.

Good luck to the Tide. Saw some positives from our guys but obviously if we want to be a player again like we were in our early days in the league, being happy we "gave you a game" can't be part of our deal.