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tidetoit;2153410; said:
This years game was the first in television history NOT to be broadcast over the public airwaves on National Network Television AKA ABC, NBC, or CBS. It was broadcast on cable ONLY on ESPN. That limited the audience to cable subscribers only. That and that alone is why the ratings were affected. Using the ratings as a point of attack is BS! Complete and utter BS!

Reason and facts don't seem to matter to some - but I'll keep bringing facts and reason to expose the unreasonable.
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oh my bad.

i must have forgotten that no one who lives in SEC land can afford cable or a dish... it must have really sucked for you to not be able to watch the game. or did you go down to the nearest Buffalo Wild Wings and stiff your waitress?
 
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lvbuckeye;2153585; said:
oh my bad.

i must have forgotten that no one who lives in SEC land can afford cable or a dish... it must have really sucked for you to not be able to watch the game. or did you go down to the nearest Buffalo Wild Wings and stiff your waitress?
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Buffalo Wild Wings is a yankee establishment, founded in the hell-pit of jealousy that is Columbus, OH. No god fearing southerner would grace that place. Especially not during the SEC's most awesome moment.
 
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IronBuckI;2153614; said:
Buffalo Wild Wings is a yankee establishment, founded in the hell-pit of jealousy that is Columbus, OH. No god fearing southerner would grace that place. Especially not during the SEC's most awesome moment.
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Funny story, my best friend was tasked with opening BW's in the great state of Bammer...Montgomery to be exact. Needless to say he got fired for knocking out a customer that continually called his black bartender, "BOY" every chance he got. I guess BW's frowns on GMs defending employees from racist dickheads.

Back on topic, wait, what is the topic again?
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2153769; said:
Funny story, my best friend was tasked with opening BW's in the great state of Bammer...Montgomery to be exact. Needless to say he got fired for knocking out a customer that continually called his black bartender, "BOY" every chance he got. I guess BW's frowns on GMs defending employees from racist dickheads.

Back on topic, wait, what is the topic again?
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Well to be fair if you knock out every racist dickhead who comes into your store in Alabama there won't be anyone left to buy anything.
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2153769; said:
Funny story, my best friend was tasked with opening BW's in the great state of Bammer...Montgomery to be exact. Needless to say he got fired for knocking out a customer that continually called his black bartender, "BOY" every chance he got. I guess BW's frowns on GMs defending employees from racist dickheads.

Back on topic, wait, what is the topic again?
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<off topic> That's really not a funny story. And unfortunately, racism happens in every state in the land...and every country outside ours. </end off topic>

As for a playoff, I have long been against it simply because I loved the old bowl system as it existed when I was growing up in the 70s. But that antiquated way will never return and all this conference bravado is largely caused by endless jockeying for perception so that one's poll rankings will be higher.

So, in that respect, I look forward to some sort of playoff IF ONLY to reduce just a bit of this conference chatter. I suspect a 4 team playoff will reduce that somewhat, and an 8 team playoff would do away with almost all of it. The move is afoot...it's only a matter of time.
 
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Diego-Bucks;2155452; said:
Big Ten plan to include using bowls as semifinal sites

I don't know what the Big Ten is thinking right now. They had their plan out there, they wanted the top-4 division champs taken from the top-6 teams. They had wanted to do the campus as the semifinal host sites, or take bids on the semifinal site.

I think the move to use bowl games as a semifinal site is dead wrong.
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Don't kid yourself. The Big Ten most certainly wanted on-campus semifinal games. Problem is, they didn't have the votes. Delany's smart enough to realize he'd be fighting a losing battle if he insisted on on-campus semifinal games.
 
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Diego-Bucks;2155452; said:
I think the move to use bowl games as a semifinal site is dead wrong.
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Agreed. I would suspect that this is part of a larger strategy, since Delany isn't known for being short-sighted - or for landing on the wrong side of profitability and what's best for his conference - but at this point I'm beginning to wonder if the Rose Bowl fascination is rising to the fore.

This is something Husker fans are united about - we are not entranced by the Rose Bowl. We do not support the primacy of the Rose Bowl, no matter what Tom Osborne's recent statements seem to imply.
 
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buckeyesin07 said:
Don't kid yourself. The Big Ten most certainly wanted on-campus semifinal games. Problem is, they didn't have the votes. Delany's smart enough to realize he'd be fighting a losing battle if he insisted on on-campus semifinal games.
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Maybe.. At the least I think they should take bids on the semifinal sites. They are just blatantly saying: "No, outsourcing is so much better. We don't want that money."
 
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Diego-Bucks;2155462; said:
Maybe.. At the least I think they should take bids on the semifinal sites. They are just blatantly saying: "No, outsourcing is so much better. We don't want that money."
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Again--I think this was a non-starter for the SEC, Big XII, etc. They didn't even want to entertain the idea. Enough conferences that Delany realized he had to concede.
 
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