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Bucky Katt;1156871; said:
Seeing that you're a USC fan, it's easy to understand why you would think of your players as professional athletes. :nerd:



Death Penalty! :p
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There are 36,000 NCAA student-athletes, and those of us not good enough to play for USC will be going pro in something other than sports.
 
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Dispatch

Bob Hunter commentary: Despite Gee's concerns, college football was sold for profit long ago

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 3:35 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
E. Gordon Gee's concerns about how a plus-one playoff proposal by Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive could lead to the "professionalization of college football" have been weighing on me. Ever since I read the Ohio State president's quotes in Monday's Dispatch about a plan to have the participants of the BCS championship game decided in two of the preceding bowl games, I have been able to think of nothing else.
"We will not cross that line and get onto the slippery slope -- the professionalization of college football and a furthering of the arms race," Gee said. "We simply have to say no. If we don't say no to this, the horse has left the barn totally."
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There is, but is the current system still not a money whore? Look at how they pick teams: they pick popular big name schools that have traveling fan bases. A playoff might generate more money, but that would only be because it's a more efficient crack whore than the current crack whore system.
 
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Playoff or no playoff...It's May 10th and I just want some college football.

but honestly, who gives a shit? what I really want to see is the BCS bowl games moving North. (closer to C-bus and all) How is it really fair to have the BCSNCG in the middle of SEC country every other fucking year? sure LSU was favored to win and they did and they had the better team that night.

But if that game is played in Cincinnati (of course it would need to be an indoor stadium since its January and no SEC school would ever play in freezing slop) it just might turn out better for the Buckeyes. And it might not. But we'll never know. I just want to see a NCG played in a Northern city. So how about moving the location of the NCG to say that new whiz bang stadium they're building over there in Indianapolis?

If it's good enough for the Colts it's good enough for the BCS. since last year it was played in LSU's backyard...sorry I'm just still bitter about the outcome.:smash:

Let's just say the NCG was played in Indy under a similar scenario as last year and 2 teams make it after stumbling late and one of them was tOSU. It will never happen because no one wants to travel north in the dead of winter for football. Sure, just see super bowl XL.

There would be plenty of CFB fans crying foul for letting the Buckeyes in.


Fuck it I already forgot the point I was trying to make. I'm just pissed and I want the 2008 season to start already. sorry for the rant.:wink2:
 
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Playoff is inevitable, Florida State president says
Money will be too good for schools to pass up
Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:22 AM
By Jaime Aron


Associated Press
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Here's a ray of hope for college football fans bummed by the recent rejection of the plus-one model to determine a national champion. The president of Florida State not only believes a playoff is coming, he thinks it'll start with four teams, then grow to eight and eventually 16.
"The bottom line is the money, unfortunately, is going to drive the train," FSU's T.K. Wetherell said. "The 12th game, right now, is solving the problem. The reason there is a 12th game in football is the money. People may not want to admit that, but that's the facts of the matter."
Wetherell's comments came Friday at the National Football Forum, during a panel discussion of the future of college football. He spoke after the playoff concept was pretty much rejected by Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, Washington coach Ty Willingham, Kansas coach Mark Mangino, TCU coach Gary Patterson, Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White and Army athletic director Kevin Anderson.
"Who is it for?" Willingham asked.



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Of course the ncaa schedule in all sports is about the money. The money to pay for the cost of other sports and facilities, for the schools themselves, for the cost of equal opportunity in sports, and for the athletic facilities.

Schools also like to claim that athletics is a part of college life and use it as an attraction to gain pupils. I would imagine that the number of students that use the available facilities and intermural schedules is pretty large.

For most schools the amount of money taken in from football and BB doesn't even come close to the cost of their athletic programs alone so for them the inter school athletics is just another cost to them. That's one reason why the smaller school look for a big payday by playing an tOSU.

All this leaves the universities, we fans, and the students with two options;
1. Our school is a place of higher learning which also happens to be a football factory and we take pride in both.
2. Our school is a football factory which also happens to have teachers.

I would think that those that want a playoff would choose #2 and those who value the education more would choose number 1.

Now before you all get all fired up I better say that I know there are plenty who think that there is a middle ground. And as much as I would like to watch the Buckeyes play every week all year long I think that the education is more important.

I think a lot more of players who stay and get a degree than ones who don't. I am not sure if I consider Clarett a Buckeye at all in the pure sense of the word/term.

So anyway, I don't think I want a playoff that increases the number of games we play each year. The universities VOTED thru their reps to the ncaa for the present system and that is good enough for me. I am not about to think I can run the university better than the powers that be can.
Live with it.
 
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Most classes are not in session during the time when playoffs would occur. How is this sacrificing education? And how can this be a legit reason for opposing playoffs in light of the NCAA bball tourney and the fact that a 12th game was added to the regular season (that 12th game almost always being played while classes are in session)?
 
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methomps;1159986; said:
Convince Cincy that 80k people will come and spend money for a week and you'll have a chance. Short of that, forget it.
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That's the thing about a playoff. Homefield would have to come into play. I'm sure 180,000 would be no sweat if you have the Buckeyes involved. We put over 20,000 asses in the 'Shoe for the 2002 NC celebration on January 18th. It was about six degrees.
 
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