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Quote: The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff.
So now they have to stick their grubby hands into College Football. Disgusting.
Quote:The measure passed by voice vote in a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, with one audible "no," from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.
"With all due respect, I really think we have more important things to spend our time on," Barrow said before the vote, although he stressed he didn't like the current Bowl Championship Series, either.
A Democrat actually said something I agree with, except that I really do not care about his opinion of the current BCS system.
I said this before, and I was chastised for it. The next step will be a four team playoff, while teams #5 and #6 complain about it.
Quote: The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff.
So now they have to stick their grubby hands into College Football. Disgusting.
Quote:The measure passed by voice vote in a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, with one audible "no," from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.
"With all due respect, I really think we have more important things to spend our time on," Barrow said before the vote, although he stressed he didn't like the current Bowl Championship Series, either.
A Democrat actually said something I agree with, except that I really do not care about his opinion of the current BCS system.
I said this before, and I was chastised for it. The next step will be a four team playoff, while teams #5 and #6 complain about it.
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Well, if you're undefeated, you have a right to complain. This year a 4 team playoff wouldn't have answered all the questions.
Quote: (12-10-2009 04:09 PM)NIU17 Wrote: [ -> ] (12-10-2009 03:59 PM)Huskie_Jon Wrote: [ -> ]The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff.
So now they have to stick their grubby hands into College Football. Disgusting.
Quote:The measure passed by voice vote in a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, with one audible "no," from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.
"With all due respect, I really think we have more important things to spend our time on," Barrow said before the vote, although he stressed he didn't like the current Bowl Championship Series, either.
A Democrat actually said something I agree with, except that I really do not care about his opinion of the current BCS system.
I said this before, and I was chastised for it. The next step will be a four team playoff, while teams #5 and #6 complain about it.
Well, if you're undefeated, you have a right to complain. This year a 4 team playoff wouldn't have answered all the questions.
That is correct, but it would be a small step in the right direction that would raise minimal objection from the present bowl sponsors.
It could get also get Congress to shut up about it.
Using this year as an example, the problem for schools like NIU is that Texas and Alabama would be playing in Bowl/playoff games as well as the Championship (assuming UT and UA win) and that would shove two lesser bowl teams off the bench of bowl teams. Teams like NIU and USF.
I hate the BCS. However, I hate the government getting bigger too. Obama will appoint a College Football Czar.
16 team playoff. It'd be perfect.
(12-10-2009 06:43 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote: [ -> ]I hate the BCS. However, I hate the government getting bigger too. Obama will appoint a College Football Czar.
Highly doubtful
since there is a 1AA playoff, there are no excuses to why there can't be a playoff. the whole concept of college football being an "amateur" sport and the facade that NCAA puts on for college football is a farce, and almost a turnoff for me
that being said, the gov't has bigger problems to figure out and work on than college football
I heard Archie Griffin on ESPN recently contest the benefits of a playoff in place of bowls and said the bottom line is it would hurt the non-qualifting conferences financially more so than the present agreements.
Not so sure I comprehend or follow what is the logic to his statement other than suggesting the monies generated from bowls and contracts with conferences may be lost.
A single day game experience in a playoff round would not generate all the events and money spent related to the bowl game in host cities lasting several days or more.