Classic Game Withdrawal
Resending our note to college presidents from a year ago
College Presidents,
With all but a few games between this season and the bowls, it is time to preview the morsels available for the college football fan to satisfy his/her hunger before the New Year’s Day Games. The best team in the land according to all polls will continue their hibernation another 32 days before reappearing next year to show the world they deserve the ranking. Give them a bye week for sure, maybe two for good measure, but 6 weeks off. Don’t we want teams playing at their best? Don’t we want to see the best teams play?
Let’s have an eight team playoff using the bowls for the final, semi-finals and those losing out in the first round. The games will make money. And if you are really worried about student athletes not getting to class, get rid of the mid week games. Oh, you can do that for basketball and baseball, too. I forget, their tournaments don’t get in the way of any real school work.
Back to the playoff system. Wouldn’t it be great if every week, we could look forward to a couple of top 10 teams squaring off to determine who gets to the title game. All are guaranteed a first round game and a bowl game. The last two standing play in a third game to take home the crystal. Why is this so hard?
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Comments
Comment from Dwayne
Time: June 25, 2008, 2:45 pm
The funny thing about this is it IS all about the money and these leaders of our largest public institutions have gotten it wrong. A playoff would bring much more money into the system and there is certainly a way for all universities, especially the BCS conference schools to get a piece of it. Are you sure you want you child learning from these folks? Fortunately, they are not leading the classroom discussions.
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