Wednesday, January 4, 2012

NCAA Post Season

First, I wish I could have written this yesterday when it was all fresh in my mind.  I just didn't have enough time with studying for promotion testing and hockey practice.  Second, I'm sure you've heard or read just about everything there is about how the BCS system is so jacked up etc.  Well, you haven't read MY thoughts on it.  Lastly, before I get started, I don't follow college football closely.  I watch it when it's on but I don't obsess over it.  That maybe because where I'm from, there's not a good college football team.  The main team I do root for in college is Michigan.  I have since the 8th grade.  Not sure why but I just do.  OK, so to the point of today's blog.
The BCS system is jacked up.  Everyone knows that.  Every December and January, crappy teams with a 6-6 record play in the Maxi Tampon Bowl game that doesn't mean anything to anyone but school officials.  Look at this season.  Alabama had their chance to beat LSU but they couldn't.  Let Oklahoma State take a shot at it.  The only reason the BCS exists is because of money.  Nothing more than money.  The mathematical formulas are inaccurate and the rest of the ranking is super subjective.  It does not accurately reflect how good a team is.  Ask anyone who lives in Idaho.  That's not going to change, however.  Too much money is in he system.  How many professional sports writers have written about how inaccurate and unfair the BCS is?  No one in power is going to listen.  Like I said, too much money in it.  The only reason 6-6 teams play in bowl games is because the school gets corporate sponsor ships and TV deals.
My solution?  A playoff just like everyone else's solution.  But here's my idea.  Reduce each conference or sub-conference to 6 or 7 teams each.  Screw scheduling those weak D1A schools for confidence builders.  Each team in the conference plays each other twice, a home and away series.  The top of that division goes to the national tournament, kind of like the NCAA basketball tournament.  If a conference has sub-divisions like the SEC East and West, the top of each one play each other to represent the SEC.  That game can be a "bowl" game and corporations and networks can throw money at it.  We do this for every division in D1.  Each playoff game in the tournament is a "bowl" game.  Again, corporations and networks can throw money at it.  There you go.  Want to be the best in the nation?  Dominate your conference then dominate the nation.  Remove the subjection and keep the money!
Someone may have suggested something like this before but I don't read a lot about college football.  I was thinking about this while eating BBQ brisket and talking college football with guys in the office.  So, did I miss anything?  Got suggestions of your own?  Let me know what you think.  Garthvader@gmail.com.  Follow me on Twitter @Domkizzle

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