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05 Texas ineligible for BCS

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Agreed. I think this is just a publicity stunt, but still he is wasting time and resources either way. I doubt much will come of this, but thought it was worth starting a thread about it anyway since its the offseason.
 
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Read between the lines. Texas currently hosts how many Bowl games? Force a playoff system and those bowls become even more lucrative and with warm weather states nearby which also host bowl games, it's a bid for regional money making.

It's time for the mid-west to pull it's collective cranium out of it's collective rectum. If you can play NFL playoff games in Green Bay, Philly and Foxboro in January, you can host NCAA playoffs in Ann Arbor, Columbus and other Northern sites.
 
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I don't see why this guy thinks he has the right to get involved in the matters of any organization as long as no laws are being broken. I thought the baseball thing was a joke but at least it dealt with a legality issue in the US. Not having a playoff system is breaking no law.
 
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First, this is clearly just political grand-standing on the part of both the State Senator and Congressmman.. that said.

Banning football in Texas (if it were to pass -- twice -- 12/2 deadline) would be political suicide.
 
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cincibuck said:
If you can play NFL playoff games in Green Bay, Philly and Foxboro in January, you can host NCAA playoffs in Ann Arbor, Columbus and other Northern sites.
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This is a little off topic (but just a little). I agree, in part. People will sit in below-zero temperatures to watch their teams play in bowl games. However, the NFL is different in that the games in these cold cities all include their home teams. The people in Green Bay only go to that game to see the Packers play in the playoffs. In college, if a bowl game were in Ann Arbor, it wouldn't necessarily have Michigan in the game. It would be South Carolina vs. UNLV, or something. Would South Carolina fans and UNLV fans go to the game? Some would. But the cold Michigan winter would keep many away. That's why, in my guess, there aren't any bowls in northern states (except indoor stadiums).

Also, how would you like to be the coach who says, "Congratulations, team, you've had a great year. Let's go spend our holidays in Ann Arbor!"
 
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Zurp said:
Also, how would you like to be the coach who says, "Congratulations, team, you've had a great year. Let's go spend our holidays in Ann Arbor!"
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If it was for the NC against USC, Miami, Oklahoma, Florida, Florida State, Texas, Tennessee, LSU, Alabama, or Georgia I'd be all for it. Basically against anybody except another Big-10 team or ND, I'd prefer to play the NC game anywhere above the Ohio River.
 
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Anytime the bias towards warm weather schools is brought up I always like to make note of these two facts:

1) Of Miami's 5 NC's 3 were played in the Orange Bowl

2) Of USC's 10 NC's all but last years were played in the Rose Bowl.

Now before any USC fan tries to tell me Pasedena isn't a home game, I'll just ask them if they Cleveland on Jan 1st would be a home field advantage for us.

One of the biggest reasons I could live with a playoff system would be to see higher seeded cold weather teams get home field advantage and make things a bit more fair for once.
 
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You'd get people that would complain that it would bring in less money to hold an event in Cleveland or Columbus, which could be true, but I don't think they care about that sort of thing in the NFL playoffs.

The money each bowl receives will be the reason a playoff system will be very difficult to pull off.
 
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scooter1369 said:
If I lived in Texas (And thnk the Lord I don't), I would be pretty well pissed that my tax dollars were being wasted this way.
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While I hate to see stuff like this I do take comfort in the fact that we have no state income tax. Which im sure more than makes up for the potential money lost on political grandstanding. Also, most texans thank the lord every day that they don't live anywhere but Texas.

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Agreed. I think this is just a publicity stunt, but still he is wasting time and resources either way. I doubt much will come of this, but thought it was worth starting a thread about it anyway since its the offseason.
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HAHAHA, state congresional tax smack... I love the offseason
 
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The day Texas goes undefeated and doesn't qualify for the BCS will be the day... well, it'll be a very rare day.

All other problems have been solved in this great state. Ignore the man behind the curtain.

"I do take comfort in the fact that we have no state income tax"

Of course we have higher sales taxes and property taxes. And the education system is crumbling, but we did pass Mississippi AND Arkansas.
 
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