BCS Source: Playoff 'gets done' in near future

• gorocks99

  

  http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/feed/2011-10/lsualabama/story/even-with-playoff-coming-sec-still-big-winner-lsu-alabama-national-title-game?eadid=EL/SICOM&sct=hp_t2_a11
  

  [LEFT]NEW ORLEANS—Ugly doesn’t begin to describe it. But it most certainly defined it—in such a profound way that even the men who run this crazy, controversial contraption we call the Bowl Championship Series are giving in.
  
  Years from now, this BCS National Championship Game won’t be remembered so much for Alabama’s utter domination of LSU as it will the beginning of radical change in college football. A national playoff is coming, everyone.
  
  It’s only a matter of what it looks like.
  
  “It gets done,” a high-ranking BCS official told Sporting News Monday evening.
  
  Here’s how: over the next six months, the leaders of the sport will meet at least four times to iron out a plan that protects the importance of the regular season—the one aspect BCS leaders believe separates the game from every other—while embracing a new frontier for the poll-driven sport.
  
  It begins Tuesday here in New Orleans with a meeting of conference commissioners, and includes meetings in Dallas in February and Miami in April. Another meeting in June is also likely, especially considering the magnitude of the potential change.
  
  When asked what the playoff would look like, a high-ranking BCS source said there are “at least 60” different options on the table, and that includes everything from a four-team playoff to one game after all the bowls.

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• SportsAndLady

  

  Interested to see waht the ratings look like. Those who say "they won't look at one year's ratings and make a change"--while that's most likely true by itself, it will certainly be in play when they're talking about changing to a playoff. I know it's just one year of poor ratings (if the ratings actually are bad), but they can't afford multiple years of poor ratings, college football is WAY too popular right now.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  http://www2.nbc4i.com/sports/2012/jan/09/2/bcs-we-know-it-going-away-ar-889862/
• vball10set

  It'll be a +1 in 2014, but IMO we won't have a full scale playoff for a while--a long while
• GOONx19

  

  SportsAndLady;1046845 wrote:Interested to see waht the ratings look like. Those who say "they won't look at one year's ratings and make a change"--while that's most likely true by itself, it will certainly be in play when they're talking about changing to a playoff. I know it's just one year of poor ratings (if the ratings actually are bad), but they can't afford multiple years of poor ratings, college football is WAY too popular right now.

  http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/01/alabama-lsu_produces_lowest_tv.html
  
  13.8... Lowest in the BCS era.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  vball10set;1046859 wrote:It'll be a +1 in 2014, but IMO we won't have a full scale playoff for a while--a long while

  I don't know why they don't just make the change for next year. Why wait until 2014?
• ytownfootball

  

  ernest_t_bass;1046871 wrote:I don't know why they don't just make the change for next year. Why wait until 2014?

  It's a contract, can't change anything 'till it's up.
  
  And yeah it will only be a +1, it won't satisfy the malcontents. The discontent from the 5/6 spot won't be any different from the 3/4 spots currently.
• gorocks99

  

  GOONx19;1046867 wrote:http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/01/alabama-lsu_produces_lowest_tv.html
  
  13.8... Lowest in the BCS era.

  WE DID IT GUISE
• Fly4Fun

  

  ytownfootball;1046905 wrote:It's a contract, can't change anything 'till it's up.
  
  And yeah it will only be a +1, it won't satisfy the malcontents. The discontent from the 5/6 spot won't be any different from the 3/4 spots currently.

  Wrong... the parties can agree that it's in the best interest of all to change it immediately. It's unlikely but possible.
• Pick6

  

  gorocks99;1046907 wrote:WE DID IT GUISE

  yea, who said us "whiny bitches" couldnt make a difference?
• ytownfootball

  

  Fly4Fun;1046908 wrote:Wrong... the parties can agree that it's in the best interest of all to change it immediately. It's unlikely but possible.

  EXTREMELY unlikely...smh
• ts1227

  

  Fly4Fun;1046908 wrote:Wrong... the parties can agree that it's in the best interest of all to change it immediately. It's unlikely but possible.

  
  Regarding a plus one, Jim Delany will block it from happening mid contract, but come 2014 the other 5 conferences will tell him to fuck off. They do have the votes to remove auto bids immediately, I believe. I saw something yesterday saying the B1G was on board to some extent, as were most others.
• se-alum

  

  Fly4Fun;1046908 wrote:Wrong... the parties can agree that it's in the best interest of all to change it immediately. It's unlikely but possible.

  I don't know that it's that unlikely. If the BCS sees that ratings are low, they have a reason to want the change as soon as possible. I can't see the schools holding it up either. This wasn't just a low rating in the NCG, this was a very low rating for the entire BCS system. They have a reason to want change. People are more likely to watch 2 teams that they normally wouldn't watch, if the outcome of the game can have implications on their own team. Right now, there's no reason for the non-diehard CFB fans to watch a game like WVU/Clemson.
• ytownfootball

  

  Jim Delany is and has been the lynchpin in this whole mess. His reluctance to make any changes has caused most of the conference re-alignment imo. That's the saddest part of it all imo.
• Hulk Smash

  Playoff?
  
  I've been hearing about the coming playoff all my life. I'll believe a playoff is happening when I am actually watching it.
• ytownfootball

  

  se-alum;1046924 wrote:I don't know that it's that unlikely. If the BCS sees that ratings are low, they have a reason to want the change as soon as possible. I can't see the schools holding it up either. This wasn't just a low rating in the NCG, this was a very low rating for the entire BCS system. They have a reason to want change. People are more likely to watch 2 teams that they normally wouldn't watch, if the outcome of the game can have implications on their own team. Right now, there's no reason for the non-diehard CFB fans to watch a game like WVU/Clemson.

  But if they dip below 50% of DI participants on board then they run the risk of their entire system being thrown out. They'll run the risk of low ratings (which they don't benefit from) vs losing the majority of the money they receive for a year.
• gorocks99

  

  Ratings for BCS games on ESPN:
  
  NCG: 13.8 (16.1 last year)
  Rose Bowl: 11.8 (13.1 last year)
  Fiesta Bowl: 9.0 (6.7 last year)
  Sugar Bowl: 7.0 (9.5 last year)
  Orange Bowl: 5.3 (7.1 last year)
  
  http://www.opposingviews.com/i/sports/ncaa-football/acc/less-people-are-watching-2012-bcs-bowl-games-say-tv-ratings
  
  Congratulations ESPN.
• ts1227

  

  ytownfootball;1046925 wrote:Jim Delany is and has been the lynchpin in this whole mess. His reluctance to make any changes has caused most of the conference re-alignment imo. That's the saddest part of it all imo.

  
  Larry Scott was the worst thing to happen to Jim Delany. He no longer has an ally regarding refusing to change in the Pac 12 and now just looks like a stubborn dumbass.
• se-alum

  

  ytownfootball;1046929 wrote:But if they dip below 50% of DI participants on board then they run the risk of their entire system being thrown out. They'll run the risk of low ratings (which they don't benefit from) vs losing the majority of the money they receive for a year.

  It makes sense for all involved to go to a playoff system though or even a +1. Higher ratings = more money for all involved. If it continues like it is now, the bids for the next BCS contract will be significantly lower, meaning less money for the schools, and less advertising revenue for ESPN. Ratings now are going to drive the next BCS contract. So, for the schools, there may be a little less money in next few years if ESPN isn't willing to renegotiate their contract, but in the long run, it will mean more money for the schools.
• bases_loaded

  

  Is ESPN basic cable now? The fact these games weren't on ABC or FOX alone would be a reason for smaller numbers. Oh and it was a game between two teams that already played from the same fuggin conference
• gorocks99

  

  Last year the BCS games were on ESPN
• JU-ICE

  Isn't a "Plus One" basically the same as a four team playoff? If they are going to have a plus one, they would have to come out when the bowl match-up are announced and say the winner of Game A will play the winner of Game B, correct?
• bases_loaded

  

  The real problem is the long layoff.
  
  You can't get good football with 40 days off
• Al Bundy

  JU-ICE;1047004 wrote:Isn't a "Plus One" basically the same as a four team playoff? If they are going to have a plus one, they would have to come out when the bowl match-up are announced and say the winner of Game A will play the winner of Game B, correct?

  It could be done that way, or you could take the 2 highest ranked teams after the bowls have been completed in the present format.
• Al Bundy

  bases_loaded;1047008 wrote:The real problem is the long layoff.
  
  You can't get good football with 40 days off

  The layoffs keep getting longer too. When they first started the BCS the championship game was usually a couple of days after New Year's. It has pushed back a full week. I imagine ratings for many of the bowls were better when they were played on the holiday as opposed to having a meaningless game in the middle of the week.