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BCS Administrator on Rose Bowl and NonAQ.   Message List  
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Re: BCS Administrator on Rose Bowl and NonAQ.

--- In collegebcs@yahoogroups.com, "thegame19800869" wrote:
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> college football would make way more money if they had a playoff
> system and still keep the tradition and dignity of the bowl system.

It they could do that they would have done it by now. It's simply not realistic
to expect the bowls to co-exist with a play-off system.

Jerry has an article on the site outlining the difficulties.

Alan
Sat Jun 6, 2009 1:17 pm

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Bill Hancock, administrator of the BCS(and former director of the Final Four) was a guest on a Sports Talk program here in Columbus today that is co-hosted by ... 		Jim Mengel
jmmengel
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12:01 pm

the bcs system is a load of crap. college football would make way more money if they had a playoff system and still keep the tradition and dignity of the bowl...
thegame19800869
Offline Send Email 		Jun 6, 2009
5:36 am

... It they could do that they would have done it by now. It's simply not realistic to expect the bowls to co-exist with a play-off system. Jerry has an...
eaglealan64
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3:22 pm
Emmet O'Brien
obrienemmet
Offline Send Email 		Jun 10, 2009
5:20 am

Agreed Kevin. There is not one BCS Champion who did not deserve it on the strength of a season. The same cannot be said for any other sport....
Jim Mengel
jmmengel
Offline Send Email 		Jun 10, 2009
1:29 pm

2009/6/10 Emmet O'Brien <obrienemmet@...> wrote ... So you would be happy to be like the NFL and have 32 teams playing the regular season then contesting...
Alan Milnes
alan_the_eag...
Offline Send Email 		Jun 10, 2009
4:56 pm

... Thankfully, I don't think we will ever see a playoff system in NCAA Football as long as the Bowl Committee are around.......and besides this ain't baseball...
Jason O'Mahony
jayoshanks
Offline Send Email 		Jun 11, 2009
12:19 pm

You guys all crack me up. Everybody's caving on a playoff system using the same shopworn assertion that "every week is a playoff in college footie". Please,...
reidomo
Offline Send Email 		Jun 13, 2009
3:44 pm

Your argument could use some explanation. What is it that needs to change? Under the system in place college football stages a 12 game regular season that...
Jim Mengel
jmmengel
Offline Send Email 		Jun 13, 2009
11:10 pm

System is doing fine if what you're after is profits for colleges. But how do we know that a playoff system would not register even more attendance and even...
reidomo
Offline Send Email 		Jun 15, 2009
1:25 am

The BCS is definitely imperfect. Ideally, a bracket system as large as college basketball would be great. However, that is not going to happen. Why is that?...
piercenjax@...
hpbiiidvm
Offline Send Email 		Jun 6, 2009
3:22 pm

... Bowl teams play 13 or 14 games during the season. I'd say that's "deciding it on the field." Penn State Proud, Trader Kevin...
Trader Kevin
cbot_kevin
Offline Send Email 		Jun 10, 2009
5:20 am

I'd like to chime in with a couple of observations. First, it is very difficult to compare football to baseball, basketball, and hockey because football is...
John Martin
c2cjm
Offline Send Email 		Jun 15, 2009
1:25 am

You may be using a new whip, but the horse is still dead. Both the Rose and the Fiesta Bowls, which are, after all, just "exhibition games, beat any game of...
Jim Mengel
jmmengel
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3:27 pm
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