underdog777
Seasoned Expediter
If bama beats lsu. What then its a split title cause they won at bama home field
the bcs is a joke
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DannyD
Veteran Expediter
Read the book Death of the BCS.
The whole bowl system is a racket. Teams forced to buy tickets for games. The universities lose millions on a lot of these games. Who gets the $$? A very limited amount of people. These guys make $5-800,000 year for hosting ONE game. One lousy game.
Then ya have these bowls who claim to donate to charity. Uggh. A bowl might make $10 million & advertise how they're in partnership w/ a certain charity. So the author called the charities & they'd say "yea, the bowl committee gave us $100."
Have a playoff in place w/ home field advantage for higher ranked teams. Split the $$ 50/50 between home & visiting team (or conference, depending on how they want to work it).
Basically Jim Delaney doesn't want a playoff. Even though the B1G would make more $$ w/ a playoff, they'd get a smaller % of the total pie.
The book is great. It explains in detail why a playoff would have prevented all these teams from jumping leagues. Nebraska would have had no reason to jump to the B1G if a playoff would have been in place.
Also, teams would schedule tougher games non conference. In 1988 there were 15 games (non conference) between top 20 teams. That's w/ an 11 game schedule. In 2009 there were 5 I think it was. In 2010 there were 4. That's with a 12 game schedule.
Michigan got stuck w/ UConn to open their stadium a couple of years ago. They tried to get Texas, Florida, anyone they could. They offered a home & home. They had no takers until UConn said ok.
There's a whole slew of things about the BCS that'll blow your mind. The equivalent of the BCS in the NFL would be to have a Super Bowl between say Green Bay & New England. Then have all the other playoff teams play at a nuetral site w/ some promoter getting 80% of the $$$ while the NFL teams that made the playoffs lost money on the deal.
I actually do think LSU & Bama are the 2 best teams this year. If there's only gonna be 1 game to decide the champ I think they have the right two teams. There really should be a playoff to determine it though.
The whole bowl system is a racket. Teams forced to buy tickets for games. The universities lose millions on a lot of these games. Who gets the $$? A very limited amount of people. These guys make $5-800,000 year for hosting ONE game. One lousy game.
Then ya have these bowls who claim to donate to charity. Uggh. A bowl might make $10 million & advertise how they're in partnership w/ a certain charity. So the author called the charities & they'd say "yea, the bowl committee gave us $100."
Have a playoff in place w/ home field advantage for higher ranked teams. Split the $$ 50/50 between home & visiting team (or conference, depending on how they want to work it).
Basically Jim Delaney doesn't want a playoff. Even though the B1G would make more $$ w/ a playoff, they'd get a smaller % of the total pie.
The book is great. It explains in detail why a playoff would have prevented all these teams from jumping leagues. Nebraska would have had no reason to jump to the B1G if a playoff would have been in place.
Also, teams would schedule tougher games non conference. In 1988 there were 15 games (non conference) between top 20 teams. That's w/ an 11 game schedule. In 2009 there were 5 I think it was. In 2010 there were 4. That's with a 12 game schedule.
Michigan got stuck w/ UConn to open their stadium a couple of years ago. They tried to get Texas, Florida, anyone they could. They offered a home & home. They had no takers until UConn said ok.
There's a whole slew of things about the BCS that'll blow your mind. The equivalent of the BCS in the NFL would be to have a Super Bowl between say Green Bay & New England. Then have all the other playoff teams play at a nuetral site w/ some promoter getting 80% of the $$$ while the NFL teams that made the playoffs lost money on the deal.
I actually do think LSU & Bama are the 2 best teams this year. If there's only gonna be 1 game to decide the champ I think they have the right two teams. There really should be a playoff to determine it though.
Good thing it is ONLY sports and not important. It's football, it's fun, other than that, no value. No reason to get upset.
chefdennis
Veteran Expediter
The bcs is all about money, nothing else and those on the board are every open about, they have never tried to hide it....
"money money money..its a rich mans world".....
And yeap as Layout said, its a game, does it really make a difference in your day to day life???
"money money money..its a rich mans world".....
And yeap as Layout said, its a game, does it really make a difference in your day to day life???
You're d*mn right it does! It's obvious you guys aren't from the South
Bama just put on one of the most dominating displays in National Championship history: 21-0 over a great LSU team in what was practically a home game for the Tigers in New Orleans.
The BCS was lucky again this year in that there was no question the two best teams played for all the marbles. But in the long run they're going to have to go to a playoff to maintain any credibility with the National Championship.
ROLL TIDE!!