OT: BCS Bowls are a Sham

[evolver115]

This cracks me up: NO BOWL BONANZA FOR UCONN: Football team's trip to Arizona brings prestige, but could cost school a bundle- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut

Add to that.... this: NCAA report: Economy cuts into college athletics - ESPN PSU was also one of the 14 teams to profit in 2009.

This whole BCS setup is a joke. The only people who are profiting from this are the Bowl Championship Committee who get paid exorbitant salaries to oversee one weekend of football, and the AD's from the schools who are wined and dined by these thieves.

The universities themselves aren't making any money on this. This isn't just the small Big East Schools who are getting raped by this system... Look at this:

FOR SOME SCHOOLS, PLENTY OF TICKETS GO UNSOLD

The Pacific Life Holiday Bowl is one of the fortunate few. Its Dec. 30 game at Qualcomm Stadium is sold out. Not only that, but both teams, Nebraska and Arizona, quickly sold out the 11,000-ticket allotments they were required to buy from the game. Many of the 34 bowl games often aren’t such hot properties. Participating conferences and teams incurred $15.5 million in losses last year on unsold tickets alone. Some examples:

• Ohio State was required to buy 17,500 tickets to the Fiesta Bowl last Jan. 5 but only sold 9,983, leading to a loss of $1 million for the Buckeyes and the Big Ten Conference.

• Minnesota and the Big Ten bought the required 10,500 tickets for the Insight Bowl last year in Arizona. They only sold 1,512, absorbing a loss of $494,340.

• Ball State and the Mid-American Conference bought 8,889 tickets to the GMAC Bowl in Alabama last Jan. 6 but sold only 1,431, absorbing $400,005.

• Oklahoma State and the Big 12 bought 11,000 to the Holiday Bowl last year but couldn’t sell 5,438, absorbing $318,490.

• Utah was required to buy 10,000 to the Poinsettia Bowl in 2007 (tickets at right) but sold only 2,361 and absorbed $267,365.

From here: Costly kick in the teeth to bowl teams - SignOnSanDiego.com

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

I must agree sir, the system certainly needs to be changed, here's what I feel needs to be done.




the automatic bid system needs to be gone.

what the BCS needs to do is make a 4 team playoff

after that the BCS bowl bids should go to any conference champion ranked in the the top 14. if the conference doesn't have a champion in the top 14, it doesn't get an auto bid.

then the At-large bids follow.

this way two more teams get in BCS bowls and... we have a 4 team playoff to better determine the champion.

the Cotton Bowl would probably become the new BCS bowl.

money needs to be split more evenly as well, the money part is definently the most socialist thing about the B_S. seriously the Big East teams get all this money and what do they do with it? keep it? whoever's in controls keeps it for his personal self?

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

a Sham you say?


WOW!

 

[evolver115]

a Sham you say?


WOW!

FTW

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

damn hookers.

mess you up almost every time

 

[awaz]

i dont like a playoff system.. 4 teams i can get by with.. but what makes college football exciting is the fact that every single game matters.. if you lose 1, you could be out of it.. it makes every game riveting and exciting to watch..

something that i just kind of thought of now thought (aka not well thought out).. what if they could find a way to do a 'if you go undefeated, you go to the playoffs' type of playoff.. i realize that would cause a lot of headaches with scheduling, bowl payouts, game locations, playoff 'bracket' and an odd number of undefeated teams, etc.. come to think of it, this is probably impossible..

BUT as far as keeping it exciting, and making it as fair as possible, i think that would be the best way.. then any team that goes undefeated, has a chance to prove they belong with the big boys and any 1 loss team that thinks their better than an undefeated team, can be shot down with a simple 'you should've won all your games'

edit: a further thought as i conclude, this system is fucked if nobody goes undefeated

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I see Mark Cuban wants some new programming for HDNet ... Jeez I hope this doesnt effect the UFL

BCS director doesn't back Mark Cuban's playoff plan - ESPN Dallas

 

[evolver115]

I see Mark Cuban wants some new programming for HDNet ... Jeez I hope this doesnt effect the UFL

BCS director doesn't back Mark Cuban's playoff plan - ESPN Dallas

"Hancock responded to Cuban's comments in an e-mail to the AP on Thursday, saying, "Given how much support our current system has among university presidents(really?), athletics directors, coaches(really?) and athletes(really?), I don't think any amount of financial inducement will make people abandon" the BCS."
[/I]
This guy shits out more BS than a cow pasture

What HanCOCK should have said:

"Given how much support our current system has among our Bowl Championship Committee staff, I don't think any amount of financial inducement will equal what we are already raping and pillaging off of our great universities and places of education."

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

The Holiday Bowl always does well for some reason. They seem to get a good match up every year which helps.

The BCS is & always will be a joke. We need a playoff system.