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I haven't paid attention to most of the games this season. There have been too many bowl games for years now. I watch or pay attention to the ones/teams I care about and ignore the others--that usually equals me watching 2-3 games a season. I could care less about the other games.
It's all about the money, from the cities that host them, to the corporations that sponser them, to the networks that show them and the colleges that get to play in them. Even colleges that don't get to play get revenue sharing through the conferences, I know the SEC does this, maybe all don't.
They all do.
Even 1-11 Florida Atlantic gets a cut of the cash. Bama gets $16 mil less than LSU for the MNC game, so you know where some of that goes...to non-participants and even FCS schools split from the general bowl pool.
I had to bring this up in another forum where some clueless schlub was talking about the money gap. Well, all the schools involved had someone who matters sign into this BCS deal, which is why nobody really is complaining. This wasn't happening before the BCS came along. Sun Belt schools would be nothing more than a 1"x1" scoring summary in the back of a newspaper sports page with no hint of a TV camera at the stadium if teh good old days were still around.
Makes sense? Yes.
Washington went 0-12 a few seasons back and got paid. Bet on it.
I happen to enjoy watching the bowl games----there have some really good bowl games this year.
I like the bowl game process----after the bowl games if the ncaa wants to revamp the process to go an and one process or select the the top four teams after the bowls and have them play off fine.
As far as nobody watching the bowl games----not true----Espns ratings for the bowl games are fairly solid and it certainly beats watching lumberjacking or obscure nhl matchups on versus that get a 0.1 or 0.2 rating.
Bama gets $16 mil less than LSU for the MNC game, so you know where some of that goes...to non-participants and even FCS schools split from the general bowl pool.
I'm not getting the bolded part.
The conferences get the bowl money not the teams. Teams get reimbursed for Bowl Game expenses, the rest is divided equally among the teams in the conference.
Instead of all the silly and meaningless bowl games, it would be childishly easy to use the month instead fo have a real playlff system like they do in basketball
Using this year as an example, the regular season ended December 3. Select the top 32 teams and invite them to play 31 games at the 31 sites that can host successful bowl games, as follows:
16 games December 10weekend (Thurs-Mon)
8 games December 17 weekend
4 games December 24
2 games December 31
Final game January 7
This would make everyone happy. The networks get 31 post season games which all mean something, the Rinky Dink Widget Bowl gets its local glory to sell the naming rights to, the fans get an indisputable national champion, the players don't have to get rusty running drills for 3 or 4 weeks with no competition, and no team gets home field advantage.
Instead of all the silly and meaningless bowl games, it would be childishly easy to use the month instead fo have a real playlff system like they do in basketball
Using this year as an example, the regular season ended December 3. Select the top 32 teams and invite them to play 31 games at the 31 sites that can host successful bowl games, as follows:
16 games December 10weekend (Thurs-Mon)
8 games December 17 weekend
4 games December 24
2 games December 31
Final game January 7
This would make everyone happy. The networks get 31 post season games which all mean something, the Rinky Dink Widget Bowl gets its local glory to sell the naming rights to, the fans get an indisputable national champion, the players don't have to get rusty running drills for 3 or 4 weeks with no competition, and no team gets home field advantage.
That includes almost impossible geographics for fans, universities, and media. I'll take the top 8 with only a couple extra games.
Last edited by nevergoingback; 01-02-2012 at 10:20 PM..
It was about 15 bowl games in 1993 not there are 67-LOL
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