http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:38:56 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/11/18/103247.php#comment-676734 Why not try something a little more in line with using a back door to begin creation of a playoff system. We currently have the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 with championship games, while the Big East, Big 10 and Pac 10 don't. Get each of these conferences to 12 teams and create conference championship games. It puts us one step closer to a true champion. The second step woudl be easy, the 6 conference champions plus 2 at large teams could play a playoff. That should allow for all the teams that would have a realistic chance at winning a nationsl championship to play for it. Bowls could be continued as they are now, just rotate the lower tier bowls for the playoffs and the current BCS bowls rotate the final games in the series. Is it perfect, no. But I think if even the first step, 6 conference championship games, would take us a long way toward a true national champion. 676734@blogcritics.org Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:38:56 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/11/18/103247.php#comment-656479 My understanding is that each Big 10 conference school going to a bowl game actually does split the bowl game earnings with the conference office and the other schools. The bowl game participant does get a large share of the money to account for their expenses for traveling to and from the game, but after consideration for such expenses, my understanding is the bowl pot is split equitably. Still, I wouldn't support purposely losing games, but the NCAA does need to change. A playoff is definitely needed with at least 4 teams, but more ideally at least 8. You can still have bowl games and a playoff. With a system of dispersed conferences and decentralized scheduling, it is difficult to pick just 2 teams deserving of competing for a national title in most years. 656479@blogcritics.org Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:35:39 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/11/18/103247.php#comment-656344 It does benefit the conference because they get two really high profile bowls instead of just one. If Ohio State beats Illinois then they go to the National Championship bowl and some OTHER big ten team still gets to go to the Rose Bowl. 656344@blogcritics.org Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:59:18 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/11/18/103247.php#comment-656278 i like this conspiracy. except for the fact that conspiring one particular conference team to an undefeated record doesn't benefit the conference. i don't know if it's the entire sum, but definitely a very very large percentage of any bowl revenue goes to the school, not the conference. conspire to push Ohio State into the national title game instead of the Rose Bowl, and all you're doing is increasing the chunk of money that they'll re-invest in their athletic department (on top of the $108 million they already spend). that would only serve to re-establish the gap between the haves (Florida, LSU, Ohio State, Michigan, USC) and the have nots. Leave the system where it is, with all of the Big 12, Pac 10, SEC, Big 10, and ACC teams kicking the crap out of each other so that there is rarely a clear winner and the teams are so exhausted by the end of the regular season that it affects their performance in the bowl games. Then we can continue the push for a playoff system, I say. 656278@blogcritics.org Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:13:31 EST