(01-11-2018 12:00 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(01-11-2018 11:17 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-11-2018 10:07 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  "I think (eight teams is) where it's going," Malzahn said. "We'll see what happens, but I'd personally like to see it."


http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.s...r_home_pop

It looks like the 8 team playoff is on the way.

That's because our head coach is a one trick pony and wants job security. Auburn was stupid to retain him for 7 million a year. He acts, thinks, and utilizes players like the high school coach he is.

He is so inept that he runs a scheme that requires a very concentrate set of skills, but he has yet to recruit a QB with those skill sets. Instead he has to find them by transfer.

We aren't going to 8 teams. The conferences don't want it because they would have to give up highly profitable CCGs to get there.

The presidents are against it because it screws up the academic calendar.

Most head coaches with a brain don't want it because it cuts down even more recovery time for injured players and cuts out their bye weeks in which they regroup and retool mid season, not to mention the time they have to get some players over injuries.

The players don't want it because it is just one more opportunity for a NFL ending injury.

And ESPN doesn't want it and said so this week, because they claim it diminishes the value of the regular season games, and what they didn't say was because it takes quality teams out of the bowls (to which they have purchased the rights).

So forget it. It's not happening. And Gus is just enjoying running his mouth since he got to be a go to color guy for the national championship game.

The CCGs don't go away. The schools go back to playing 11 game regular season schedules.

The division winners play for the conference championship.

Therefore, only the National championship teams play 15 games.
The conference runner ups play in bowls - 13 games.
The best of the rest only play 12 games including a bowl game.

The diminishing the regular season "crap" is them saying we don't want to pay more for this better package and results.

Let's be real. The regular season is a playoff and always has been. The goal is to get to playoffs. 8 teams means more interest and chances to get into the playoffs.

That is why the NFL added wild cards and MLB expanded its playoff.

And 14 AD's in the SEC would scream a collective "Oh Hell No!" Every SEC school plays 7 home games. 4 conference games and 1 home and home 2 one and dones is the recipe. You multiply 77,500 which is the average SEC home game attendance x $60 which is about the going ticket rate for that extra game against a G5 or FCS school and then multiply it x 14 and there are the reasons this idea has no legs. That's 4.65 million dollars in just gate that each of the conference school's lose. Add concessions and merchandising and it's closer to 7 million than 6.

So the schools aren't giving up that money to split it with every conference in the playoffs for an extra game they don't want to play anyway.

And as a South Alabama fan imagine how that impacts your Jags. That's 14 less slots for an SEC school to schedule U.S.A. and give them a payday they need to sustain their program. So yeah boy let's expand those playoffs and cut the economic legs right out from under the lower level schools in the FBS.

At Guinness they would say, "Brilliant!"