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Originally Posted by King Glorious
It's not just about the money, although that obviously does factor. But it's also about the fact that with all of these bowl games, there is a winner in every one of them. You may not think it matters much but for a lot of the schools, being able to say at the end of the season, and more importantly, when the head coach walks into the home of a recruit, that they won a bowl game, that carries some weight. Of course, the really big time recruits, the ones that the top 10 schools are going after, aren't going to care much if school x comes in and says "You know son, we won the Pulan Weedeater Bowl last year." But for the schools that aren't in the national championship chase every year, the bowl experience is a big one. Also, having conference tie-ins to bowl games means guaranteed money for all of the schools in a conference and that's money that's counted on and budgeted before the season starts. If you start having a playoff, that would change dramatically. Coaches are overwhelmingly in favor of a playoff. Athletic directors, university presidents and chancellors, alumni, and boosters aren't. I doubt we'll ever get one.
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i doubt we'll get one either. and you also mentioned some very valid points regarding bowls and recruiting.
there's no way that all the games would still mean what they mean now-and folks can argue til their blue in the face that not all the bowls matter, but they do to the teams who go, and to the cities who put them on. and there's no way a playoff could include the same amt of teams who go to bowls, and there's no way that a playoff wouldn't affect the lesser bowls. of course they'd be affected, how could they not? if you do away with the big bowls, say they aren't important, why then would the smaller bowls still matter?
and yeah, it may be overly simplistic to say it's all about money, but essentially it is. everything ties into gettting the support of the boosters and the alums, because that's where the money comes from. and being able to say that you went to a bowl means a lot to the programs-and it all generates $.