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College Playoff

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TampaBuckeyes said:
Very true. I don't know how anyone is going to get tickets and their travel arrangements in between Jan 1st and Jan 6th. Some years the playoff will be as late as Jan 3rd... The national title will be half empty, particularly if it's any west coast schools playing in the southeast. I said it from the beginning, the semi's don't need to be established bowls. They can just be semi's and have them take place 2 weeks after the title games, giving 2-3 weeks for people to buy tickets and make their plans. Dream scenario because at that point you can't expand past 4 teams because the major bowl committees won't allow it. The Sugar and Rose want to at least have the #1 or #2 team from the conferences not the 3rd best team. If you can't tell, I hate the idea of the playoff expanding. I still have the old mindset of the Rose Bowl is where the Big Ten champ should end up. BCS will destroy the Rose Bowl in the end. I miss 1997.
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Doesn't seem to be a problem for the Final Four, and fans of the teams that qualify have about the same amount of time to make arrangements once they clinch their spot. The national title game in basketball has drawn over 70,000 each of the last four years, and those games were played in NFL stadiums. It's different from selling out the Rose Bowl, but it's not that different from selling out the two stadiums they just announced.
 
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jlb1705 said:
Doesn't seem to be a problem for the Final Four, and fans of the teams that qualify have about the same amount of time to make arrangements once they clinch their spot. The national title game in basketball has drawn over 70,000 each of the last four years, and those games were played in NFL stadiums. It's different from selling out the Rose Bowl, but it's not that different from selling out the two stadiums they just announced.
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That is very true. It is a little easier for the basketball tourney because most people, I think, purchase tickets to the whole event. If you're team get's to the final four you just buy the 3-pack because you want to see them in the title game if they win. It's all in one weekend at one location. So you have fan bases from 4 schools rather than just 2 filling the seats.
But the point is they find 70,000 people to drop everything and plan a trip to go knows where in one week.
 
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I'm sure the entire SEC (and PAC) loves the process. It benefits you greatly, as the bowl situation has historically.
An SEC/PAC team in the "playoff" seeded 1/2 will get to play at home. Seeded 3/4 will play at a neutral location.
A BIG team in the "playoff" seeded 1/2 will play in a neutral location. Seeded 3/4 will play at the opposition's.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
FWIW - I like the process and the bidding involved.
Although not related, a well run, safe, and properly executed Superbowl in the Meadowlands this year will do alot for more neutral sites in the future.
I could see Seattle or Washington DC being in play very soon!
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I don't think the Meadowlands Super Bowl will make a difference. Super Bowls have been held indoors in cold-weather cities for years, yet none of those possibilities were brought into consideration for this playoff. Indianapolis in particular is well-regarded as a host city for championship events but it's not in play.

The B1G is the only conference that would have an interest in bringing something like this about. The other conferences that have institutions in cold weather regions have their competitive and political influence concentrated with institutions located in warm weather regions. This ship sailed when Jim Delaney ceded all of the conference's bargaining chips without getting a concession on this issue in return.
 
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jlb1705 said:
I don't think the Meadowlands Super Bowl will make a difference. Super Bowls have been held indoors in cold-weather cities for years, yet none of those possibilities were brought into consideration for this playoff. Indianapolis in particular is well-regarded as a host city for championship events but it's not in play.

The B1G is the only conference that would have an interest in bringing something like this about. The other conferences that have institutions in cold weather regions have their competitive and political influence concentrated with institutions located in warm weather regions. This ship sailed when Jim Delaney ceded all of the conference's bargaining chips without getting a concession on this issue in return.
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You and I are just going to have to respectfully disagree.
I believe the only thing that causes the NCAA to act with any sense of purpose or common sense is the prospect of increasing revenue.

If a bidding city proposes something that stands to increase notoriety and by proxy, increase revenue - I think they'd jump on it.
I bet you if Indy makes a bid, they'd get it. The town is far better suited than Minneapolis to host such an event.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
You and I are just going to have to respectfully disagree.
I believe the only thing that causes the NCAA to act with any sense of purpose or common sense is the prospect of increasing revenue.

If a bidding city proposes something that stands to increase notoriety and by proxy, increase revenue - I think they'd jump on it.
I bet you if Indy makes a bid, they'd get it. The town is far better suited than Minneapolis to host such an event.
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If this playoff were being run by the NCAA, I'd agree. Instead it's just the BCS in drag. The people running this thing are not influenced by attendance, revenue or exposure so much as they are influenced by booze cruises, titty bars and graft. I think the last 15+ years provides a pretty good template of what to expect going forward.
 
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jlb1705 said:
If this playoff were being run by the NCAA, I'd agree. Instead it's just the BCS in drag. The people running this thing are not influenced by attendance, revenue or exposure so much as they are influenced by booze cruises, titty bars and graft. I think the last 15+ years provides a pretty good template of what to expect going forward.
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But given their openness to hosting the event in Non-BCS settings (as evidenced by Tampa Bay winning the game), don't you think it's likely they would host the game in Indy? I mean, for goodness sake - the NCAA Headquarters is less than two miles from the site of the game!
 
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BigWoof31 said:
But given their openness to hosting the event in Non-BCS settings (as evidenced by Tampa Bay winning the game), don't you think it's likely they would host the game in Indy? I mean, for goodness sake - the NCAA Headquarters is less than two miles from the site of the game!
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Having hosted a Final Four and a Super Bowl, there's no argument that Indy couldn't host it. It's just that--god damn--Indy is one boring ass city.
 
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