BCS Threatens To Go Back To The Old System

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Since when did the business known as NCAA football care about the academic success of their student-athletes.  The NCAA pretends to care by having the APR that has the possibility to dock scholarships and post season play.

The exam issue is easily solved and not extending the season too far into the spring is an easy fix as well.  Make the season end the first Saturday in December, which most teams are done anyways, and then start the playoffs the following weekend.

If the playoff is 16 teams the opening round could be on the next Saturday and Sunday and then take a week off for finals, and then start back up for the fourth week in December, New Years week, and then the week after New Years.

That is when the season ends as of now, and since the players play games on the weekend professors would help accommodate the finals schedule.  That would not be hard to adjust a students finals schedule, because unless the final is on a Thursday or Friday that is when they need to re-schedule.

Baseball players, and basketball players miss a ton of time traveling mid week for games, so adjusting a test by one day is not that hard.

Q: Why is a playoff not a viable alternative? Is it because it would cut too many teams out of postseason play?

HP: It would diminish the bowl structure and it would reduce the number of opportunities for student-athletes to play in the postseason and that’s not a good thing. If you look at college football now, it’s the greatest sporting event spread over September, October, November, December and a little bit of January that the country has.

I do agree that college football has the best regular season, but they have the worst post-season with any sport, and why would this reduce the number of teams to play in the post season.

Again, the lower-tier bowls that are all ready poorly attended can still be around. Currently in the NCAA hoops there are four post season tournaments, and while the NCAA tourney gets the most pub that would still be the same in football with the playoff games.

HP: A playoff would seriously diminish the regular season, as it has in college basketball. I don’t think it’s good for college football, I don’t think it’s good for student-athletes and I don’t think it’s good for fans. I don’t see fans traveling around the country three weeks in succession between December and January following their team.

Hmm… the NCAA basketball tournament seems to not have a problem selling out arenas with the different fan base.  Also, having a playoff would not ruin the regular season anymore then the current practice of teams playing FCS cupcakes in the preseason.  That has ruined the non-conference season which is why ESPN tried to get Texas and Wisconsin to play each other this season.

The regular season would be even better by making the playoff exclusive to conference champs and only five at large to make a 16 team field.  Currently ten teams get in the BCS so there would only be six more spots, and if it goes by my plan with conference champs; every conference race would be important and teams who do not win their league would still need to be near perfect to get in.

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