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Originally Posted by Danzig
my thinking is if the money is to be had by changing, it would happen. a lot of programs fund a lot of college stuff outside of football. more money would be a good thing for those schools.
i also have to think that some conferences wouldn't want it to be the best teams go. currently you have conferences with guaranteed spots in the big bowls. they don't want that to go away-that makes that big money go away- from them. look at the last few years, and what teams have finished in the top ten. look at who hasn't been the last however many years. there's been a shift, and it's leaving traditional schools out in the cold. that's why they made that push for automatic bids, so that no big conference loses out on that money. i don't think they want that auto bid to go away. if it doesn't go away, the playoff system wouldn't be any better than what we have currently.
i can see a plus one coming...that's about it. still think this year that it would have resulted in bama-lsu.
boise st was griping about automatic bids. i bet that griping doesn't happen next year, when they win one of those auto bid conferences!
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The problem is the current powers that be would rather take a bigger cut from a smaller pie and it is hard to believe that many of them arent making money personally from this set up. Regardless of what angle you take the thing that continues to come through is that this setup allows for far too much corruption and leaves far too much to chance. But we are going to see changes not because we all bitch but because no one watched the Orange or Sugar bowls and the Championship game's ratings were down as well. Bowl attendance was down this year as average bowl attendance hit a 33 year low. The BCS games tv ratings were down 21% from 2009 partly because of moving to ESPN from Fox but they were down 10% from last year.
01-12-2012, 05:47 PM
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