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RE: Would you like to see a 9 game conference schedule?
(08-18-2019 07:55 PM)Polish Hammer Wrote: The difference between the MAC and some FCS schools isn’t as much as that of the top level P5 programs.
sorry, this devolves into a rant and brainstorm at points, but...
it's similar. we sometimes struggle for a half. then, wear them down and pull away in the 2nd half. or just whoop em. once in a while a solid fcs pulls off the road win vs the mac. the only difference is the mac pulls off a few P5 road wins every year. so, you could argue the difference is great mac-fcs.
polishhammer made a post above about having the ncaa mandate road games for P5. i like that. the thing is the ncaa is more of a syndicate now that gets rich off young athletes and oversized playoff and tournament games. it doesn't really function like a governing body for the interests of all its members. it's a gang of rich guys who have gotten good at signing giant tv deals and cutting themselves and the big P5 schools huge checks. the ncaa needs to be restructured. regular season football needs to be emphasized and the excitement maximized. television/web exposure and scheduling should be strategically structured to benefit local and regional fanbases and students. silly things for measly scraps of the tv pie like 4 straight midweek games or senior night on black friday morning. your rivalry game at 8 pm on a Tuesday, etc... should be dead. tie scheduling to something like RPI. for example, a team rated in the 60s (middle of FBS) should get 2 home and 2 road FBS non conf games with opponents who in aggregate have a similar rating. decide what the bowl concept is about. it's now a mix of tv sponsorships, for broadcast exhibitions. a handful of competitive meaningful season ending games. and an overhyped 4 team playoff overshadowing everything else. college football needs to decide what bowl pageantry and tradition to preserve and restore. how to keep the playoff from dwarfing the end of 98% of the teams' seasons. and how to inspire more interest and competition among and between teams in the lower half of P5 and the upper tier of G5. could you, make all the lower tier bowls function as regional play in games for a slot in a smaller number of real bowl games? you could have an end of the year ranking that divides the top 64 teams into 16 pods of playoffs. but you got to make the regular season good because that is what is relevant for most of the teams and schools and fan bases. the season needs to end before thanksgiving weekend, because for most schools that's a terrible time for the last game of the year.
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RE: Would you like to see a 9 game conference schedule?
(08-19-2019 03:07 AM)pono Wrote: (08-18-2019 07:55 PM)Polish Hammer Wrote: The difference between the MAC and some FCS schools isn’t as much as that of the top level P5 programs.
sorry, this devolves into a rant and brainstorm at points, but...
it's similar. we sometimes struggle for a half. then, wear them down and pull away in the 2nd half. or just whoop em. once in a while a solid fcs pulls off the road win vs the mac. the only difference is the mac pulls off a few P5 road wins every year. so, you could argue the difference is great mac-fcs.
polishhammer made a post above about having the ncaa mandate road games for P5. i like that. the thing is the ncaa is more of a syndicate now that gets rich off young athletes and oversized playoff and tournament games. it doesn't really function like a governing body for the interests of all its members. it's a gang of rich guys who have gotten good at signing giant tv deals and cutting themselves and the big P5 schools huge checks. the ncaa needs to be restructured. regular season football needs to be emphasized and the excitement maximized. television/web exposure and scheduling should be strategically structured to benefit local and regional fanbases and students. silly things for measly scraps of the tv pie like 4 straight midweek games or senior night on black friday morning. your rivalry game at 8 pm on a Tuesday, etc... should be dead. tie scheduling to something like RPI. for example, a team rated in the 60s (middle of FBS) should get 2 home and 2 road FBS non conf games with opponents who in aggregate have a similar rating. decide what the bowl concept is about. it's now a mix of tv sponsorships, for broadcast exhibitions. a handful of competitive meaningful season ending games. and an overhyped 4 team playoff overshadowing everything else. college football needs to decide what bowl pageantry and tradition to preserve and restore. how to keep the playoff from dwarfing the end of 98% of the teams' seasons. and how to inspire more interest and competition among and between teams in the lower half of P5 and the upper tier of G5. could you, make all the lower tier bowls function as regional play in games for a slot in a smaller number of real bowl games? you could have an end of the year ranking that divides the top 64 teams into 16 pods of playoffs. but you got to make the regular season good because that is what is relevant for most of the teams and schools and fan bases. the season needs to end before thanksgiving weekend, because for most schools that's a terrible time for the last game of the year.
Always thought that the season should start a week earlier.
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