Does anyone have faith in the NCAA???
No I am not talking about the investigation into Michigan football. I am talking about the horrible BCS system and the fact that they are thinking of expanding the NCAA tournament field to 96 teams, when that contradicts every reason they stated why not to have a playoff including academics, diminishing the regular season and every other reason they stated.
I was watching College Gameday earlier and here would be Jo Lunardi’s last 4 in, if it was a 96 team tournament
Missouri St (20-12)
N. Carolina (16-14)
Arizona (15-14)
Akron (20-8)
What a joke.
Every extra game added, like recently done in football, is more tickets sold and more commercials shown.
In a 96 team format we would we be one of the first four out?
Absolutely necessary. But capable of some gigantic f*ck ups.
I wish Congress would force an 8 team tournament for football. The BCS crooks add a ridiculous bowl every time a company comes to them with a briefcase full of money.
A 96 team tourny is killing the golden goose. Heck, I don't even care for the 65th team added. You have your nice clean bracket and then you have this thing in the top left corner. It doesn't even look right. Such a meaningless game to. they're playing for the right to be slaughtered by a #1 seed.
that the play in winner beats the number one overall seed.......
I prefer to have Congress stay out of sports as much as possible. They have enough that they are already screwing up, I don't wish to inject any more politics into sport than is already there.
The system is the system because it makes money for everyone. When it quits making money it will change and only the fans can determine when that happens.
While I personally think the tourney is big enough as it is, I don't see how adding more teams would hurt it any. It just means that 31 more fanbases would have a stake in it.
... in the NCAA's ability to do the dumbest thing imaginable.
We have a system of bowls that works beautifully as long as there are exactly two undefeated teams, or one undefeated and exactly one one-loss team. That happens all the time, by which I mean practically never. An eight team tournament would be fantastic, and you could still have the array of second tier bowls that would still have just as much to do with crowning a champion as they do now.
Arguments the NCAA makes against this based on academics, travel, game attendance, and anything else my enraged mind can think of are made to look ridiculous when they don't shoot down talk of a 96 team hoops tournament before those proposing them can even finish their sentence. Everybody on this blog would buy tickets to at least one round of a football playoff involving Michigan, if not all three rounds.
University Presidents don't want a playoff and want the 96 team tournament, so blame them, not the NCAA. When adding games, they bow to the will of member institutions. Blame the NCAA for the weird celebration rule change that will cost someone a game this year.
I am forced to ask, what do the presidents of the Big Ten have to say on the subject? I'm guilty of misplacing my vitriol, I suppose, but now I'm curious to see polls from BCS conference presidents. Are any conferences in favor? I would think that conferences who don't get automatic bids to the BCS title game (read: all but SEC) would be in favor of at least a +1 system.
And that's only because it will be impossible for a coach at a name school to ever miss the tournament again. Job security.
Once everyone makes the tournament, though, simply making the tournament every year won't be enough for a coach to keep a job. Kind of like how making a crappy December bowl every year is no longer enough for a coach to keep his job.
Just as our government, the NCAA has become an agency to collect money and provide a organization to boost peoples egos.
Originally yes, now no.
Is when you realize that 68 football teams played in bowl games this last season.
It's a race to 96.
Am I the only one who likes the BCS?
No.
I do. It's not perfect but it's still college football and not the NFL.
I understand the arguments for the playoff but think it's dumb -- teams will still complain when a team with a similar record gets in when they don't -- and at least this way there's tradition.
I like it well enough. If someone can come up with a better system that preserves the bowls, I'm all for it. ("Using the bowls" in a playoff system isn't the same thing.) It's really the bowls that I like.