The entire reasoning for an expanded Playoff seems to be an attempt by the various Conferences to get as many of their teams in the Playoff as possible, thus increasing the chances of that Conference winning a Natty. An unintended consequence of more teams, or maybe it's the goal, will be the elimination of the Conference Championship games. The whole thing is an exercise in futility and sort of negates the outcome of playing games during the regular season.
The point of the regular season should be to win a Conference Championship. If a team can do that it should get rewarded with a chance to win the Natty. If a team knows it can make the playoffs as the 3rd/4th/5th best team in its Conference then the regular season is really meaningless and a Conference Championship is a waste of time.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
It was about access and money for the schools on the outside before. Now it’s nuanced.
Petitti’s argument is that it makes the regular season more interesting by keeping more teams in the running. That’s a pretty straightforward argument whether you agree with it or not so I don’t see an angle where it makes the regular season mean less. The B1G is all about the automatic qualifiers. The B1G would drop the conference championship games and replace them with a play in weekend.
Im not sure this is the crowd I would expect to be supporting quotas but whatever. unserious times.
The SEC plan for 16 with 5 automatic bids should face some of the same scrutiny - it’s just not as silly on the surface. I mean it’s all about the SEC taking over the world and making Alabama the king of FBS but that’s fine. I miss when college football wasn’t so corporate - or at the very least when it pretended it wasn’t. The conference championship just doesn’t mean as much as it used to - maybe to some fans but the players, teams, universities, and conferences don’t seem to care. More playoff games is more content to sell is more money and that’s what matters because this isn’t about student athletes anymore. College football is kaput. Russia won.
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
@Basebal21 said:
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
@Basebal21 said:
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
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I love a good joke, would you share it with us?
@Basebal21 said:
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
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I love a good joke, would you share it with us?
What a great advertisement for Alabama's education system.
@Basebal21 said:
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
I really hope you dont think you were making a joke. And no there is no long lived joke remotely close to that
@Basebal21 said:
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
I really hope you dont think you were making a joke. And no there is no long lived joke remotely close to that
@Basebal21 said:
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
I really hope you dont think you were making a joke. And no there is no long lived joke remotely close to that
You're just so adorably lost.
Not really. The OSU guys say everything is about Bama and dislike the SEC because of them and Georgia. It just wasnt funny and encourages that narrative
@Basebal21 said:
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
I really hope you dont think you were making a joke. And no there is no long lived joke remotely close to that
You're just so adorably lost.
Not really. The OSU guys say everything is about Bama and dislike the SEC because of them and Georgia. It just wasnt funny and encourages that narrative
It wasn't trying to be that funny. That's the joke the comedian makes when he's taking a sip of water. It was buried in more words and wasn't trying to carry the weight of the comments itself. Good job pointing out that it's not super funny - good feedback and I take notes. As far as the narrative... you're one to speak of narrative prose... girl we in trouble!
I don't find myself often in-line with or supporting the SEC but today is the exception. I'm hoping they "hold the line" against the Big 10 instigated insistence for a 24-team Playoff format, but I fear and believe they will cave. It seems the winds of change are blowing in that direction, if not this season then soon enough. Such a development will really test my affinity for College Football. I think it's a much better product than the NFL but once $$$$MONEY$$$$ takes hold and gets a final death grip on it I believe it will be irrevocably changed, and not for the better. The sport as we knew it already appears to be on life support and these conferences see themselves as saving it.
I hope I am proved wrong on all points.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
Check out the newish protecting college sports act. Probably still not enough senate votes to pass but a line is being drawn around 2 things is the message to the SEC and B1G.
Protect college sports would be a huge win for the NCAA and the mid tier conferences.
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The entire reasoning for an expanded Playoff seems to be an attempt by the various Conferences to get as many of their teams in the Playoff as possible, thus increasing the chances of that Conference winning a Natty. An unintended consequence of more teams, or maybe it's the goal, will be the elimination of the Conference Championship games. The whole thing is an exercise in futility and sort of negates the outcome of playing games during the regular season.
The point of the regular season should be to win a Conference Championship. If a team can do that it should get rewarded with a chance to win the Natty. If a team knows it can make the playoffs as the 3rd/4th/5th best team in its Conference then the regular season is really meaningless and a Conference Championship is a waste of time.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
It was about access and money for the schools on the outside before. Now it’s nuanced.
Petitti’s argument is that it makes the regular season more interesting by keeping more teams in the running. That’s a pretty straightforward argument whether you agree with it or not so I don’t see an angle where it makes the regular season mean less. The B1G is all about the automatic qualifiers. The B1G would drop the conference championship games and replace them with a play in weekend.
Im not sure this is the crowd I would expect to be supporting quotas but whatever. unserious times.
The SEC plan for 16 with 5 automatic bids should face some of the same scrutiny - it’s just not as silly on the surface. I mean it’s all about the SEC taking over the world and making Alabama the king of FBS but that’s fine. I miss when college football wasn’t so corporate - or at the very least when it pretended it wasn’t. The conference championship just doesn’t mean as much as it used to - maybe to some fans but the players, teams, universities, and conferences don’t seem to care. More playoff games is more content to sell is more money and that’s what matters because this isn’t about student athletes anymore. College football is kaput. Russia won.
Has very little if anything to do with Bama. Its about TV money B!G wants 4 and a 24 SEC wants 16 and 5 which would allow conference championship games to say. ACC has a terrible TV deal and is looking for any extra money they can get. Big 12 will go with the majority after losing their two biggest earners by far
Fire AJ Preller
It is now the Power 4+ Conferences vs. the CFP Committee vs. Congress in some sort of a mega-dollar smackdown.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
You're not serious about Bama right? You understand the context of that long-lived joke regarding Alabama?
.
.
I love a good joke, would you share it with us?
What a great advertisement for Alabama's education system.
What a great advertisement for Minnesota's education system.
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AI generated.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
I really hope you dont think you were making a joke. And no there is no long lived joke remotely close to that
Fire AJ Preller
You're just so adorably lost.
Not really. The OSU guys say everything is about Bama and dislike the SEC because of them and Georgia. It just wasnt funny and encourages that narrative
Fire AJ Preller
It wasn't trying to be that funny. That's the joke the comedian makes when he's taking a sip of water. It was buried in more words and wasn't trying to carry the weight of the comments itself. Good job pointing out that it's not super funny - good feedback and I take notes. As far as the narrative... you're one to speak of narrative prose... girl we in trouble!
I don't find myself often in-line with or supporting the SEC but today is the exception. I'm hoping they "hold the line" against the Big 10 instigated insistence for a 24-team Playoff format, but I fear and believe they will cave. It seems the winds of change are blowing in that direction, if not this season then soon enough. Such a development will really test my affinity for College Football. I think it's a much better product than the NFL but once $$$$MONEY$$$$ takes hold and gets a final death grip on it I believe it will be irrevocably changed, and not for the better. The sport as we knew it already appears to be on life support and these conferences see themselves as saving it.
I hope I am proved wrong on all points.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin
Check out the newish protecting college sports act. Probably still not enough senate votes to pass but a line is being drawn around 2 things is the message to the SEC and B1G.
Protect college sports would be a huge win for the NCAA and the mid tier conferences.