Mark Cuban pushing for playoff system

• jordo212000

  

  enigmaax;604074 wrote:Predictably, Bill Hancock is having none of this:
  
  http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=5927151&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

  
  You knew he would make an appearance. haha. The things Hancock says to defend the BCS only emboldens me. He is such a joke. Just tell us the real reason why there isn't a playoff. He drives me crazy when he says illogical garbage and expects us to take it at face value.
• jordo212000

  

  enigmaax;603090 wrote: The issue remains the same, any switch from the bowl system where the NCAA invests nothing and gets guaranteed money to a system in which the NCAA forks out up front cash and hopes they've got a good market just isn't going to happen. You already see this principle for bowl games. Why is it common knowledge that any time OSU is eligible for a BCS bowl they are going to get a bid, even if there are other teams who are "better"?Because they draw. With a playoff, you aren't certain that the best teams are also the best draws and that isn't going to be good for business.

  
  This is reality and it is sickening.
• enigmaax

  jordo212000;604142 wrote:You knew he would make an appearance. haha. The things Hancock says to defend the BCS only emboldens me. He is such a joke. Just tell us the real reason why there isn't a playoff. He drives me crazy when he says illogical garbage and expects us to take it at face value.

  
  I know it seems like I'm all pro-BCS and whatever, but I absolutely agree with you on this. I know they can't just come right out and say it is all about money (the tax-exempt status would be at risk), but some of the covers for it are ludicrous.
• Con_Alma

  jordo212000;604142 wrote:... Just tell us the real reason why there isn't a playoff. ...

  ...maybe because there isn't a need for one. I'm not even sure there's a need for the National Championship game. College football can still lend to the extension of the Universities without crowning a definitive National Championship.
• Red_Skin_Pride

  

  Con_Alma;604219 wrote:...maybe because there isn't a need for one. I'm not even sure there's a need for the National Championship game. College football can still lend to the extension of the Universities without crowning a definitive National Championship.

  Yeah, lets just give everyone ribbons and ice cream and make sure all the players get to play. To hell with winning anything.
• jordo212000

  

  Con_Alma;604219 wrote:...maybe because there isn't a need for one. I'm not even sure there's a need for the National Championship game. College football can still lend to the extension of the Universities without crowning a definitive National Championship.

  
  haha ok. I'm guessing the odds that a playoff will happen are certainly a little higher than the odds that we go back to a system where there is no "championship" game. Everybody involved has seen the money that can be had.
• Con_Alma

  I don't think there wont come a time when there's not a NC game.
  
  Winning is important in College Football. There are plenty of opportunities to do just that already.