Before you go off on some tangent about how much better a playoff system would be than the BCS, be careful what you wish for… The NCAA tourney that everyone just loves has 65 teams in it and every year we watch teams that you know are better than some 15 and 16 seeds that don’t get in. Now with 65 teams you would have to think that surely to god that this enough teams to determine a true National Champion, since that’s what everybody is bitching about.
Well here is my concern my friends… While I would just absolutely love a 4 or 8 team playoff I know that it wouldn’t stay that number for long. And eventually it would grow and grow to the point that it would be about a 24 team tourney. Before you tell me that would be ridiculous, before you tell me that the reason there is so many teams in the March Madness is the amount of teams there are in D1 BBall. There are 347 teams in D1 basketball and 65 make the tourney. That’s just shy of 20% of the teams. There are 120 D1 (It will always be D1 to me) teams and 20% would be 24. You see where I’m going with this? The NCAA tourney started out with 8 teams and has grown slowly to 65 and I don’t want to see College football go from 4 to 24. All you would need to do is make the top 24 and you got a chance to win the National Title. Ask yourself how lame the non-conference schedule would be then. Ask yourself how many Bama-V Tech, USC-Ohio ST, Ga-Okl St, etc… how many of those games would you see if all you needed to do was make the top 24? College football has the best regular season of any sport by far and because every single game counts. Every single Saturday something happens that closes doors for somebody and opens up doors for others. We would lose all of that just so we could have a “clear cut” national champion. As for me, the National Title has been pretty clear cut. I mean, just as clear cut as the NFL. Last year the Arizona Cardinals got their asses handed to them the last 3 games of the regular season and it didn’t matter one bit, still had a chance to play in the big one. The New England Patriots beat the New York Giants in New York and then a month and half later lost to lose the Super Bowl. Imagine if Florida and Bama got matched up again this year in a playoff National Title and Florida wins by 2 points. Would Florida be the “clear cut” National Champion? Hell NO!!!!! So if you think for a second that a playoff solves all problems then you are wrong. The only thing that gives you a clear cut Champion is a best of series and you cant have that with football.
As I said earlier that I would LOVE to see a 4 team playoff or a “plus one” kind of deal… but its not worth the chance of getting some 24 team playoff in the future. So be careful what you wish for.. once you get it, it will be here for good.
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ReplyDeleteSo Joe which team in the NFL has the best argument that the Cardinals should not have been in the Super Bowl? Is the Falcons who lost to Arizona at Arizona with a rookie quarter back who probably would not have won the next game anyway? Is it the Panthers who were 8-0 at home and let the undeserving Cards come in there and beat them 30-13? Could it have been the Eagles everyones super bowl pick who despite Mcnabbs 375 and 3 tds still did have enough firepower to beat the cards? Or better yet would the Steelers who needed a heroic game winning touchdown with 30 sec left on the clock to beat the overrated Cards be the best team to say they shouldn't have been there? I guess your right playoffs don't mean anything you can beat the three best teams in the league to get the big game and almost win the big game and some moron in south Alabama still wouldn't think you deserve to be there. When the only person the BCS can turn to as a supporter is Joe Schell I think we will all agree their days are numbered.
ReplyDeletemy point about the cards was the regular season point. they lost 2 of their last 3 games by a combined 61 points and it didnt matter. that shit wouldnt happen in college footbal cause our regular season matters.
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