(04-07-2015 12:39 PM)LR Eagle Wrote:  

(04-07-2015 12:02 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  

(04-06-2015 11:29 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-06-2015 11:14 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(04-06-2015 11:06 PM)JRsec Wrote:  It's why I don't get wound around the cord over basketball. Now that they squeeze 68 teams in the NCAA and 32 more into the NIT all these last three weeks mean to me is that 98 programs will end the season by losing and only 2 will end it with a win. And only one of those will be called the champion and that regardless of what they did in the regular season, conference schedule, or conference tournament. It's a dog and pony show more than a sport. The hottest or luckiest team wins it almost every year. And, the brackets are set up for mid major upsets but for a final 8 mostly made up of blue bloods. That's why you basically just have repeat winners.

For championships I much prefer the NCAA baseball tournament with a double elimination tournament interspersed with the best of 3 series.

Football is getting better but has a long way to go to be a fairer format. Nobody knows for sure every year which conferences were tougher in the regular season and which ones weren't. That's why a champions only model is the way to go. Any other format is right back to placing the decisions in the hands of people whether through polls or now committees.

Personally I think April 7th, 2015 will be a great day. No more basketball.

And football has new champions? Seems like the same 10-12 teams getting recycled.

Actually it's the College World Series that produces new Champions. Fresno State and Vanderbilt recently come to mind. College football will always be the major brands until we have a champs only format. That's the only reason we have a selection committee now. It insures that maximum national viewers will be involved. You can't have two privates from Texas in the final four. They just don't get the eyeballs that drive the advertising rates. The only way around it is champs only. Every conference gets their champion in. But then that's why we have 5 conferences. We had to have a great reason not to have 4 champions only. That keeps the power brokers in business and guarantees the network gets its national brands.

We have 10 conferences.

Five of whom will never be given a fair shot at the championship so in the media's eye they don't exist.

You make it seem like this arrangement is something new. The AP national championship has only been awarded to a team not in currently in a P5 conference three times, BYU in 1984, and Army in 1944 and 1945.