tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6793424786678923623.post2029220731190010061..comments2024-01-24T13:11:53.844-05:00Comments on The National Championship Issue: Dominoes to a New College Football Landscape...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6793424786678923623.post-377756586924278442010-02-26T20:11:11.946-05:002010-02-26T20:11:11.946-05:00Hey there LG, thanks for the note.
You're ri...Hey there LG, thanks for the note. <br /><br />You're right, the BCS conferences & schools don't want to give any power to the NCAA - but going to a playoff wouldn't automatically mean that they have to. Especially with the situation of the bowls, which no other NCAA sports has to deal with, I think they'd be able to keep the NCAA out of it beyond getting them to confirm the extra games. I don't think the Big10 & Pac10 will expand, but if they do it's because they want more money, and that would tilt everything in favor of a playoff - one that they'd be adamant about controlling themselves.Ed Guntherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618165280932470376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6793424786678923623.post-76624260980794798682010-02-26T18:52:46.128-05:002010-02-26T18:52:46.128-05:00I just discovered your very excellent blog and wil...I just discovered your very excellent blog and will do what I can to tell people about it. Let me just say that your view that the Big 10 going to 12 and Pac 10 to 12 makes a playoff inevitable really isn't persuasive.<br /><br />The crucial fact is that the BCS schools do not want to give the NCAA even the tiniest taste of their post-season and going to a playoff makes that all the more likely. The little guys who are a majority of the NCAA want a share of the money the bowl conference schools make and their vehicle to doing that would be through an NCAA run playoff (just as they get a share of March Madness). The question is how a playoff could arise under the aegis of BCS and not be forced by the politicos, the little guys of the NCAA, and your next door dog to somehow become open to all the way March Madness is (if you see conference championships as the first rounds). <br /><br />President Gee of OSU has suggested in response to the politicos trying to put pressure on the big guys that they would go to the old bowl system before they gave up control to anyone, including the politicos.The Language Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239614087721047781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6793424786678923623.post-46009244955215804572010-02-16T14:14:58.395-05:002010-02-16T14:14:58.395-05:00Great analysis as always. I agree that Big Ten ex...Great analysis as always. I agree that Big Ten expansion is more likely than Pac-10, but Larry Scott really wants more a lot more money for the conference and the schools need more money given current economic troubles. I think Scott will be able to convince the ultra-conservative leadership of the Pac-10 to expand. But it is now or never.<br /><br />As to domino No. 6, the MWC really needs to act now or suffer the consequences. Given the trend toward 12 team conferences, the MWC needs to invite Boise, Fresno and Houston now, before any serious changes take place among the major conferences. <br /><br />Otherwise, the conference will remain a second class citizen as teams leave. Going to 12 makes AQ status more likely and stop any real conference decline if two of the big three depart.<br /><br />The MWC has a real tightrope walk ahead and could easily end up not getting AQ status.....PetePnoreply@blogger.com