RunningJacket

It was painful watching Luka hoist the championship trophy last season. This back to back for the Lakers is gonna be tough to watch.

If it wasn’t for the expanded playoffs fans of Ole Miss, Miami, Bama, and Oregon would be sitting at home waiting for a worthless bowl game that half their teams would have opted out of. Instead they are preparing for a meaningful game. The playoffs are keeping fanbases alive.

You guys obviously just started watching college football if you think it’s bad and needs fixing. Where were when guys like me, a GT fan, was pointing out that Dooley was buying players and won a Natty in 1980 by doing it. Where were you guys when guys like me were pointing out that universities were admitting people who could barely speak English let alone legitimately complete a university major.

Those of you who say stupid things like “let’s burn it down and start over now that these players aren’t real students” should have been saying this 50 years ago. But you didn’t because your teams benefitted from allowing moron athletes into your school. Now, that everyone can admit morons who can run and jump you think the world is ending and suddenly we just burn it down. It’s been needed burning for 50 years but now that is impacting your team you want changes, I laugh at you because 90% of teams have been dealing with this crap for decades while your teams paid recruits to flip and you sure didn’t mind it when holding up trophies.

It doesn’t need fixing. It is fine. The playoffs will continue to expand which gives more fans a chance to see their team succeed. Many teams have been buying players for decades. Transfers have been happening for decades. And coaches have been fired and hired for decades. Leave it alone and let teams spend whatever they want. Most teams have wasted money on players but you never hear about that because announcers don’t say “see that bench player or the guy in street clothes that they are paying $500,000 to sit the bench”.

The problem fans on this board have is they equate filled stadiums in the middle of nowhere to superiority. The minute the sport becomes regional the real money dries up and no one cares if 80,000 fans sit in a stadium in Oxford, MS to watch the rebels play the volunteers no different than no one cares if 80,000 want to sit in the sun in Talladega, AL.

I’m a southern football fan so I know to keep this sport strong you HAVE to keep the entire country interested and not become regional. That’s why the playoffs need to continue to expand and every conference needs automatic qualifiers. The best thing would be for Oregon to win it all. It will rejuvenate the west coast high school football scene and get that region back.

If you stick with a closed system where it’s Ohio St and UGA every year then expect the TV contracts to shrink.

After this year, the committee will realize they have continuall6 been bamboozled by the SEC. SEC teams talk a big game about iron sharpening iron then they lose in the playoffs. No SEC has made it to the Finals in the past 2 years and none of them are strong enough to make it this year.

I totally understand SEC fans longing for the BCS or just letting the media vote. That’s the only way they can win is to get 3 out of 4 slots or just threatening the media to vote their way. Luckily, having to play the games is allowing the sunshine in. Miami was what, the 4th place ACC team and they just whipped an SEC team.

So I the past 24 hours the SEC has lost 2 more playoff games? Shocking. Meanwhile, the ACC is 1-0. Yet, somehow the ACC sucks.

The SEC keeps getting exposed until they play G5 teams. No G5 teams next round.

You guys are a joke. We had years with teams with 0 losses or 1 loss and they never had a chance because the preseason polls didn’t include them and then they were held down because they weren’t in your conference. So to say no one outside the top 4 would have a chance is a joke.

You guys have lost the power. The playoffs are growing because that’s what people want. Sure, fans of the normal 8 teams that get ranked highly every preseason don’t want expansion but everyone else does.

But y’all can keep whining about the old days where the SEC was given Natties. Those days are over. Now you have to win it on the field.

That’s what makes college football awesome.

Why would they join a conference? That’s the quickest way to irrelevancy. Here is a list of teams in these conferences who are totally irrelevant and you think ND is dumb enough to join this list?

South Carolina
Texas AM
Texas
Auburn
Purdue
Northwestern
Illinois
Maryland
Mich St
Miami
VT
GT
MISS St
Ole Miss
Arkansas
Duke
UNC
NC State
Okie St
And more!

You guys keep saying they should join a conference but what have the teams above gotten by being in a conference? Decades of irrelevancy. ND isn’t that stupid.