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RE: CFB today with an 8-team playoff
(11-10-2017 03:22 PM)stever20 Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 12:13 PM)YNot Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 12:12 PM)stever20 Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 07:06 AM)micahandme Wrote:  As long as college athletes are indentured servants to their universities (isn't that what the "pay for play" people always tell us?), they will do what their schools tell them to do.

And if playoff loser "Team X" is on television (even if they don't care to be there and are giving 50%, which I doubt happens), fans and bored Americans will watch.

Speaking of thick skulls :), I'm wondering when you will realize that this isn't about competition...it's about television entertainment. The bowls have NEVER meant anything. You're telling yourself that they did...and that they do currently. They don't.

Play on...

Did Fournette and McCaffery do what their schools told them to do last year? Nope. And this would be that times 50.

Did LSU and Stanford cancel their bowl games because of it? NO. Because the Sun and Citrus bowls pay a lot of money and ABC and CBS get a lot of viewers.

You don't get it. That's a whole lot different. The comment though was that the athletes will do what their schools tell them to do. And nothing could be further from the truth-as we've seen. This dumb ass message board proposal has no chance in hell of passing. NONE.

Dude...I've shown you respect...even though you're wrong. Please do the same towards me. If you are so confident in your opinion, why do you need to denigrate me?

I know you probably listen to a lot of NFL shows who make a big deal out of the "college stars are going to skip bowls" narrative...but here in the real world, each team only has a handful of guys with 1st round/2nd round potential. Yes, my Saquon Barkley or maybe even Mike Gesicki might skip our meaningless bowl game this year...but the other 100 athletes on PSU's roster won't. Might that make a difference in the ratings for TV...sure. But 3.1 million people watching PSU vs. TCU in the Cotton Bowl (for example) might not be 3.9 million...but it's still 3.1 million people.
11-10-2017 11:45 PM
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