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Rivals article pumping playoff - placing Gee squarely in camp with most College Presidents as anti-playoff.

Some oft-uttered assumptions preface the bulk of the article ...

The possibility of a playoff seems to be picking up steam, but in reality its supporters might be just blowing off steam as change in the postseason format figures to come slowly.
That is, if it comes at all.
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That much seems certain - if a playoff comes, it will come slowly.


The mass media continues to trumpet the need for a playoff.
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Never mind that the mass media wanted the BCS, then didn't want the BCS with strength of schedule dunning one team or another. Forget about asking if the media is remotely qualified to design anything other than a camel - which the rest of world will call a zebra.
Let's go right past historical analysis and get into the playoffs!



Surveys and falling TV ratings for bowl games show the fans desire one.
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Survey says - ah, yes the fully qualified Internet survey - savior of all that the media wants, desires or thinks appropriate. Savior of causes lost or ill-found.
As for falling TV ratings for the BCS games ask yourselves how much of that has to do with the following factors:
  • Scheduling games post the holiday season
  • Making damned sure over half the BCS games start on weeknights followed by a workday and pumping a 25% commercial quotient in to ensure less flow to the games
  • Failing to live up to the second directive of the BCS - putting on attractive match-ups. Georgia vs. Hawaii anyone? USC vs. Illinois?
  • Putting the whole steaming mess on Fox with inadequately talented to horrible commentary
And a change of position on the issue by a prominent university president would suggest the possibility for a playoff in the future.
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It also suggests that there is a growing sense of unfulfilled entitlement by whichever institution from the SEC is not given an auto-bid to the championship game.
Auburn, then Florida (pitching for their spot in 2006 then demanding a playoff) then Georgia.

But uncompromising resistance by the majority of university presidents and major conferences, the Big Ten, in particular,
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Yeah, because only the Big 10 is complicit in wanting to try and retain the relationship with the Rose Bowl, no way that the PAC 10 feels the same way. :tongue2:
indicate that possibility would be in the future.
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[sarcasm]Superb analysis [/sarcasm]- it isn't here today, we, the media, want it (along with one or two College Presidents) by definition, if this is to happen it happens in the future.
 
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martinss01;1064921; said:
there are more than 30 bowl games. you gonna have a 30+ game playoff? if your not, get ready for a political brawl.
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A playoff and a bowl system can coexist, just as a bowl system and the BCS coexist. You have playoff games, and bowl-eligible teams who aren't selected go to traditional bowl games.
 
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AJC

Adams' plan not going to receive much discussion
NCAA says playoff idea isn't worth forming a committee.

By MIKE KNOBLER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/15/08 Nashville ? University of Georgia President Michael Adams' proposal for a major college football playoff might be dead after the NCAA did not even establish a committee to discuss it.
Instead, the NCAA's Division I board of directors on Monday decided the proper place for addressing the issue is at the conference level. The conferences operate the Bowl Championship Series, the system Adams says is broken.
The board also noted that the BCS presidential oversight committee already is looking into possible changes in postseason football. That includes the possibility of a "plus-one" system matching two bowl winners in a single title game.
"I don't think there's a desire on the part of the board to do anything other than what the current structure would yield," said board chairman and Clemson President James Barker. He added that there is no timeline for the board to take further action on the Division I-A postseason.
The board, meeting on the final day of the NCAA convention, gave Adams one way to claim victory. A presidential task force studying issues of "commercialism and student-athlete welfare" in college athletics will include in its discussions issues involving postseason football. Adams complained last week that ESPN and the bowls have too much power in deciding postseason matchups.



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Blade

Article published Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Buckeye alumnus bashes the Big Ten
Georgia president proposes playoff

By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

Southeastern Conference president Michael Adams has accused the Big Ten and Pac 10 conferences, along with the Rose Bowl, of being "the largest impediment" to the implementation of a playoff system at the highest level of college football. Adams, an Ohio State graduate who has been the president of the University of Georgia since 1997 and is the chairman of the NCAA executive committee, chastised his former school as well. "I have good friends [there], I have two degrees from Ohio State, I love Ohio State," he said. "But this is not a way to serve the country." Adams, who pitched his plan in a softer context during the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors' current meeting in Nashville, took a little spicier tack when he appeared on XM Radio's Sports Nation recently with political pundit and rabid SEC fan James

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Chicago Tribune: Critic earns 'F' for foolish

Adams gets called out on the carpet like the dog he is... :slappy:

Critic earns 'F' for foolish

Georgia's Adams far off the mark in ripping Big Ten

Teddy Greenstein
January 18, 2008

It takes a lot to earn the unofficial title of Most Clueless Man in College Sports.

You have to beat out the NCAA officials who want to link John Wooden to Richard "the Fixer" Perry, the Big Ten basketball coach who seems to make illegal recruiting phone calls in his sleep and the Big 12 coach's stepson who almost grabbed a live football during the Holiday Bowl.

But hand it to University of Georgia President Michael Adams. He has 'em all crushed.

Adams, you may recall, tried to upstage LSU's national championship by introducing his proposal for an eight-team playoff just hours after the Tigers roared in New Orleans.

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Adams, during an XM Radio interview with sympathetic ear James Carville, said the BCS is flawed because undeserving Big Ten teams are able to reach the title game.

"What we have now is a system where the Big Ten has the opportunity to most every year get a team into the national championship game that, based on their performance, would not get there through a playoff system," Adams said. "So they are not dumb people."

No, they're not the stupid ones. It's the educator who needs to hit the books.

In 10 years of the BCS, only one Big Ten team -- Ohio State -- has reached the title game. And the Buckeyes have done it three times.

Does three in 10 sound like "most every" to you?

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For the last two years, the winner of the SEC title game has leapfrogged other teams to earn well-deserved spots in the title game.

And where was the championship game played this season? Less than 100 miles from LSU's campus, in a building in which the Tigers had played three months earlier, the Superdome.

Adams' ludicrous playoff proposal calls for an NCAA committee to select eight teams -- yeah, that'll go smoothly -- and for quarterfinal games to be played as the Rose, Orange, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls.

"Let's be honest," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said by telephone Thursday. "The Rose Bowl is not interested in being a quarter or semifinal site. That's not happening.

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Jim Delany;1069309; said:
"Let's be honest," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said by telephone Thursday. "The Rose Bowl is not interested in being a quarter or semifinal site. That's not happening.

"And if there were a playoff, LSU would have been at [top-ranked] Ohio State. The game probably would have been played in Cleveland."
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There you go. Hopefully the Big Ten agrees to nothing unless it includes at least one round of homefield advantage, along with more rotating sites for the finals. Let's hear what the SEC has to say about such a proposal.
 
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CleveBucks;1069437; said:
There you go. Hopefully the Big Ten agrees to nothing unless it includes at least one round of homefield advantage, along with more rotating sites for the finals. Let's hear what the SEC has to say about such a proposal.
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The big 10 isn't even going to ok a playoff with the contracts and commitments it has. The Bond between the big Ten and the Rose bowl is one of the strongest things in this world
 
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BucyrusBuckeye;1069443; said:
Does anyone else remember the "Salad Bowl" ? I'm not kidding here , there actualy was one and tOSU played in it.
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There was a Salad Bowl between 1948 and 1952; but Ohio State never played in it. However, I believe that the Salad Bowl evolved into the Fiesta Bowl which Ohio State did play in.

Salad Bowl
Phoeniz, Ariz., 1948-1952

An early forerunner of the Fiesta Bowl, the Salad Bowl owned a prime spot on New Year's Day, possibly just for the giggles. Athletic departments in the state of Arizona didn't find it quite so funny -- Arizona and Arizona State combined to make three appearances in their home-state bowl, losing each time to Drake, Xavier and Miami of Ohio. The Salad Bowl was removed from the bowl table after 1952, possibly because someone used the wrong tiny fork.

Worse Than Salad Bowl? You Bet - AOL Sports

mcubed.net : NCAA Football : Salad Bowl history

Sports 123: American Football: NCAA: Salad Bowl

Salad Bowl (American College Football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
 
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Ga. House calls for playoff system

House lawmakers pass resolution, send it to Senate

ATLANTA (AP) -- The Georgia House voted 151-9 Friday in favor of a resolution urging the NCAA to create a playoff system for college football.
"The only major sporting event without a playoff system to identify its true champion that I know of is NCAA Division 1 football," said state Rep. Quincy Murphy, D-Augusta.
Georgia was ranked fourth in the BCS entering the last week of the season, behind Missouri, West Virginia and Ohio State. When Missouri and West Virginia lost, Georgia did not rise to second behind Ohio State but dropped to fifth in the BCS. Southeastern Conference champion LSU vaulted from seventh to second.
The Bulldogs went on to rout previously undefeated Hawaii 41-10 in the Sugar Bowl.
The resolution, which now goes to the Senate, calls the BCS system "the greatest disappointment of the 2007 college football season."

Entire article: SI.com - NCAA Football - Ga. House*calls for*college football playoff - Friday February 1, 2008 2:41PM
 
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