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 demands championship contenders to play at the highest
levels each week. There is little margin of error for performance
whether the opponent is marginal or top shelf. Unlike any other major
sport, college football stages a single championship game and 33
"exhibition" games at the conclusion of the season. The BCS
championship game is second only to the Super Bowl in TV ratings while
a half dozen of the "exhibition games" outperform the NBA, MLB,and NHL
championship telecasts.

All of this has combined to sustain record levels of attendance and
lucrative broadcast contracts in the regular season and proliferating
Bowl games, er "exhibition games".

And those football crowds pay the cost of most of the rest of the
intercollegiate sports programs at the member schools, especially the
unfunded federal mandates of Title IX.

So are you suggesting to college presidents that this "old,
antiquated and monopolistic" system needs to be changed just so a
playoff can be instituted to determine the number one team in the
country?

Better come up with something better than "combine the playoffs and
the Bowls, shorten the regular season, here is a 16 team playoff
matrix,etc..."

Those horses have been beaten to death.

If you are going to change the present system you need to have an
alternative that is better.

jim









On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:49 AM, reidomo<mitch.agana@...> wrote:
>
>
> 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, spare me your regressive thinking. I disagree with the claim that
> they are doing a good job, quite the contrary. Not picking on you Jason,
> just finally responding to all of this mamby pamby NCAA Company Line stuff
> about how the system is fine like it is. It is not fine, in fact it is old,
> antiquated and monopolistic and it needs to be changed. It would be
> complicated but it could be done. Do I have all the answers? No. But neither
> does anyone else, most especially those in control of this system we have
> now.
>
> Okay, rant is over now. Carry on. :)
>
> --- In collegebcs@yahoogroups.com, "Jason O'Mahony" <jayoshanks@...> wrote:
>>
>> --- In collegebcs@yahoogroups.com, Alan Milnes <bcs@> wrote:
>> >
>> > 2009/6/10 Emmet O'Brien <obrienemmet@> wrote
>> >
>> > >
>> > > >I agreed they should have a playoff system, like they do in others
>> > > > sports
>> > >
>> >
>> > So you would be happy to be like the NFL and have 32 teams playing the
>> > regular season then contesting a play-off??
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> >
>> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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>>
>> 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 or basketball...it's a wee bit more physical than that.
>>
>> The BCS aint doing that bad a job in my opinion, it's by far a better way
>> of ranking the teams over the course of the season than deciding the
>> championship on 2 or 3 major polls!
>>
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