(06-18-2016 02:53 AM)allthatyoucantleavebehind Wrote:  Easy. Start the season with an exhibition game which does not count for stats or for all-time w/l or for rankings.

Big schools get an extra home game...TV networks get an extra game to air...teams get to tune up before the real games start. FCS schools get a payday (more than they're getting with all of the FBS schools cutting them out...)

The upside is that big schools will be less inclined to say they "need" 7 home games per season...because they can get 1 more game through the exhibition. PSU wouldn't sell out an exhibition game...but spring game attendance shows that tens of thousands of fans will come for anything related to football.

Here is a similar topic that Dabo mentioned back in 2010.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20.../303119994

(06-18-2016 06:44 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Some team would have 8 home games and start it all again. Only solution is to regulate the schedule.

Yup. That leaders feel entitled to seven to "make it work" screams the loss of control. And it will get to that point again once it gets to thirteen. It's at twelve and it's this bad now...why and how does it magically resolve if the season expands?

If there's a fix to any of this, it's making the FBS-level's championship schematic and expanding it to at least an eight, if not sixteen-team field, with AQ's. Adios bowls, review the value of or abandon the CCG's that are more trouble than they are worth (or, commit to their value as AQ-granting games), and, maybe, some of these conferences shed schools as playoff access opens with it.

It'll never happen, though. Governments should have intervened on this stuff too long ago. And there should DEFINITELY be some intervention on how these bowls even exist. The whole structure is rotten to its core. It's a shame it probably always will be for the sport of football at the major collegiate level.

(06-18-2016 06:44 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  Some team would have 8 home games and start it all again. Only solution is to regulate the schedule.

That's the point. 7 home games and 5 away games in certain seasons (like when a Big Ten school has 5 conference home/4 conference away...2 home and 1 away non-conference)...isn't really a problem. Big schools can get 8 that year (with the exhibition). The next year...when 4 conf home/5 cons away...plus 2 home and 1 away non-conference...they'll still get 7 home venues with the exhibition.

I don't think schedule regulation is the biggest problem in CFB. If a school only wants or needs financially to have 5 home games and can play 8 away (one exhibition too)...so be it. Since the "method" to get into the CFP isn't really a regulated method, voters take into account strength of schedule.

(06-17-2016 08:30 AM)nole Wrote:  Gotta love the ACC making football changes the football schools don't want so non football schools can make more money while football schools net less due to loss of some home games.

Great game plan. FSU is rudderless at the AD position so you won't hear anything from there, but I wonder if Clemson will ever sack up and push back.

Well the ACC has basically turned itself into the old Big East Conference and that was what they always did. See how that turned out.

FSU and Clemson fans arent happy. The see florida and georgia and auburn making more money with more prestige when they know they would fit in the big boy SEC. Clemsons biggest game in an ooc Auburn. They know it.

(06-20-2016 01:05 PM)shere khan Wrote:  FSU and Clemson fans arent happy. The see florida and georgia and auburn making more money with more prestige when they know they would fit in the big boy SEC. Clemsons biggest game in an ooc Auburn. They know it.

Fail troll is fail

(06-20-2016 01:05 PM)shere khan Wrote:  FSU and Clemson fans arent happy. The see florida and georgia and auburn making more money with more prestige when they know they would fit in the big boy SEC. Clemsons biggest game in an ooc Auburn. They know it.

Our biggest game is with FSU, but one could make a valid argument that Auburn is the #2 game on the schedule.

Should Michigan and Northwestern be mad Stanford and Harvard have much bigger endowments and annual fundraising? How much is enough? Really, Clemson and FSU compete against other ACC school's more than SEC school's...i mean what are they going to do join the big 12?

(06-21-2016 01:47 PM)bluesox Wrote:  Should Michigan and Northwestern be mad Stanford and Harvard have much bigger endowments and annual fundraising? How much is enough? Really, Clemson and FSU compete against other ACC school's more than SEC school's...i mean what are they going to do join the big 12?

It's nice to know some one has a sense of humor around here.