College Playoff

[knapplc]

Its all about tradition.

But since we are already letting go of Tzeitl and Hodel why make a stink over Chava?

+1 for the analogy - even though she was everybody's favorite child.

 

[Muck]

I like that Scott didn't name the divisions "Legends" and "Leaders"... :)

Touche.

Fuck the Pac while we're at it. It's clear that Scott is more in love with the idea of luring Texas and OU down the road than he is in maintaining a 70 year old partnership with the Big Ten.

Larry can dream all he wants but the reality is Oklahoma begging to be let in last year sans Texas and being shot down by the school Presidents.

Stanford, Cal, Washington & UCLA are not going to lay down & open the flood gates to the academic wasteland that is the Big 12.

 

[buckeyesin07]

Stanford, Cal, Washington & UCLA are not going to lay down & open the flood gates to the academic wasteland that is the Big 12.

Didn't they already do that when they let in Arizona and ASU?

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Didn't they already do that when they let in Arizona and ASU?

OK, We'll take the stoners and mormons, but we draw the line at the okies!

 

[knapplc]

Didn't they already do that when they let in Arizona and ASU?

I'm pretty sure they made exceptions for those schools based on the quality of their academics.

And by "academics" of course I mean their coeds.

 

[Muck]

Didn't they already do that when they let in Arizona and ASU?

Not really. Both of the Arizona schools were in the midst of major upswing as academic institutions back in '78. And let's not forget that USC pushed the expansion by threatening to go independent when other schools balked over the academics of the two 'zona schools.

2010 Utah is a much better comparison to where they (AZ) were at the time of their invite.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

SEC wants top teams in playoff, announces record revenues

If college football adopts a four-team playoff to determine its national champion, the SEC is firmly behind a proposal that would select the top four teams, regardless of conference affiliation.

 

[knapplc]

SEC wants top teams in playoff, announces record revenues

If college football adopts a four-team playoff to determine its national champion, the SEC is firmly behind a proposal that would select the top four teams, regardless of conference affiliation.

Jim Delany just agreed with them in the conference call. Interesting.

Four-team playoff is inevitable. The B1G presidents don't seem to want this, including their current mouthpiece (Nebraska's Harvey Perlman), but they need to get on board this train or risk being left at the station.

Playoffs are inevitable at this point. The voices have been heard, the ball is rolling and any other cliches you can think of have set this process in motion. Move forward and be part of the vanguard of this movement, Big Ten Presidents. Resisting the inevitable means getting left behind when the big decisions are made.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Delaney's ankle grabbing is complete. The SEC! gets everything they wanted: no cold weather games and multiple teams in the playoff. But hey, we still get to travel 2,000 miles and play a Pac 10 team in their own backyard. That's something.

For the supposed smartest guy in the room, Delaney was a colossal failure in these negotiations.

 

[Piney]

Delaney's ankle grabbing is complete. The SEC! gets everything they wanted: no cold weather games and multiple teams in the playoff. But hey, we still get to travel 2,000 miles and play a Pac 10 team in their own backyard. That's something.

For the supposed smartest guy in the room, Delaney was a colossal failure in these negotiations.

The SEC still might not get everything it wants. Yes on-campus semi-finals are not happening, because they are in the minority and there are just enough negatives that no one else besides the Pac12 support it. So Delaney gives that up to get this...

I think the big item will be how the teams are selected. Just wait until this is done to bury Delaney. If it is a modified BCS rankings taking the Top 4, then Delaney failed miserably. But what if a selection committee is used and their marching orders are to reward conference champions when it is merited in taking the "Best 4 teams" that has a WIDE definition in Delaney's eyes.

Plus I view a championship game bid out as a win for Delaney. You know Indianapolis will host the game every few years.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

The SEC still might not get everything it wants. Yes on-campus semi-finals are not happening, because they are in the minority and there are just enough negatives that no one else besides the Pac12 support it. So Delaney gives that up to get this...

I think the big item will be how the teams are selected. Just wait until this is done to bury Delaney. If it is a modified BCS rankings taking the Top 4, then Delaney failed miserably. But what if a selection committee is used and their marching orders are to reward conference champions when it is merited in taking the "Best 4 teams" that has a WIDE definition in Delaney's eyes.

Plus I view a championship game bid out as a win for Delaney. You know Indianapolis will host the game every few years.

I am waiting until my final judgment, but I really hate all of these games being played in domes if it is North of the Mason-Dixon Line.

I still don't see why the $EC is so against home games for the first round. I am pretty sure Tuscaloosa would be batshit crazy if tOSU or U$C came to town for one game.

 

[HorseshoeFetish]

Delaney's ankle grabbing is complete. The SEC! gets everything they wanted: no cold weather games and multiple teams in the playoff. But hey, we still get to travel 2,000 miles and play a Pac 10 team in their own backyard. That's something.

For the supposed smartest guy in the room, Delaney was a colossal failure in these negotiations.

Lol it's like "The Jerk" in reverse..."Well I don't need this...and I'm not taking that".

 

[Piney]

I am waiting until my final judgment, but I really hate all of these games being played in domes if it is North of the Mason-Dixon Line.

I still don't see why the $EC is so against home games for the first round. I am pretty sure Tuscaloosa would be batshit crazy if tOSU or U$C came to town for one game.

I think the reason the SEC is against it is they view it as a no gain for them. So since on-campus games would benefit the Big 10 and certain other teams in other conferences they would rather have them in Bowls where they are the only ones to really have an advantage.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

This was posted on June 4.

http://outkickthecoverage.com/big-ten-fans-its-time-to-storm-the-bastille.php

When it gets down to it, the only conferences that really, truly love college football from top to bottom are the Big Ten and the SEC.
Everyone else is just pretending.

Which is why it's got to be so incredibly frustrating to be a Big Ten fan and have a leadership group that's so diametrically opposed to what the fans actually want.

The status quo? A plus-one?

Really?

All across the Midwest and beyond Big Ten fans are furious with the nonsensical pablum spewing forth from the Big Ten today.
Fortunately, social media empowers fans like never before.
You can shame your conference into taking the correct path.

That's why it's past time for y'all to act, inundate your school presidents, light a fire to the status quo and plus-one fuse, storm the Big Ten's Bastille. (The Big Ten's Bastille is a 1950's bungalow in Grosse Point, Michigan. Given that it's still located in Wayne County, the bungalow's value has fallen from $1.2 million in 1982 to $48,000 today. So it's ripe for the takeover).

Big Ten fans are college football's true hope right now. You can make this playoff happen by making your voices heard.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

This was posted on June 4.

http://outkickthecoverage.com/big-ten-fans-its-time-to-storm-the-bastille.php

[censored]ing SEC retard. Who the hell is that mouth breathing conference to tell the Big Ten what we want. We get it, SEC. Football is the only thing that brings meaning to your meaningless existence (well football, NASCAR and cockfighting...but that's it).

And if I wanted to live in that swampy, cultural wasteland south of the Mason-Dixon line, I would.