FB: USA South Athletic Conference

[abnrgr]

Irish............insufferable

Narch quote at Greensboro college coed dorm........

"and could you get some dates for my friends"

A kiln explosion is a tough thing

[MU_ftbl51]

I agree with everyone, i do nto like the BCS system. I know it brings in money and all this other stuff, but face it, thats nto a real championship game. I have not been happy since the year Auburn went undefeated and di not play for the national title. Then i thought it needed to be changed. Here is what they could do:
     At the end of the season, play the conference championship games and find the winners. Place them into brackets just liek basketball and give 4 regions and 4 number one seeds. You would only need about 8 games in each region, which would put it at 32 teams. PLay that first week on thursday and saturday. Next week play the 6 games and so forth till you get to the naional title game. That would take care of the whole month you wait between games to play. The next thing to keep money pouring in, is each game could be sponsored by someone, then when it got to the elite 8 from there on, it could be the bowl games just the same. Still have the outback bowl but let it be for a regional team. I think they actually would make more money doing it this way. Then the national title game could still switch every year and be the fiesta bow, or the sugar bowl and so forth. I think that system would work pretty good.

[AdmiralPapi]

I think 32 teams is a bit much.  I would love to see 8 teams play in a playoff system though.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

I think 32 teams is too much as well.  I think 16 is a good number.  Let all the conferences play.  11 conferences and then 5 at large bids. Like I said each round has a sponsor if they are so worried about the money. That is total of 15 games. That would leave 17 bowl game sponsors unhappy.

I say oh well.  There are too many bowl games as it is.  If you want to keep them happy let the other bowl games happen.  I would say 15 more bowl games at the most. I think sponsoring a playoff system could bring in more money, just because to keep winning actually means something.

[PA_wesleyfan]

Why not rotate the playoffs thru the bowls? You rotate the bowls to different rounds each year...  You can still have your minor bowl games for the teams that are (six win) eligible

[narch]

i'd settle for a "plus one" game...

[AdmiralPapi]

Or we could just eliminate the Mineike, Carquest.com, super 8, walmart, progressive insurance, mcdonalds, hardees, burger king bowl game.  I swear it takes longer to say the name of the Bowl Games now than it does to play them.

On another note...I was at the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament weigh in when "Bak Bar" brought in a 613 pound blue marlin to win the tournament.  The angler fought the fish for nearly 6 straight hours...now that's what I call a fight.

Narch, we've been catching the heck out of your kind of blues down here...when you gonna come out for a trip?

[abnrgr]

Papi
catching Blues eh? Using a USCG assault craft I bet. 60 knots, slam the brakes on, drop demo, back to 60, then haul in the bodies. That's not fishing.

I have to go way up the coast (NE) in a couple of weeks.

[WLU78]

With the D1 schedule now up to 12 games, plus the bowl game it makes for a long season for the players.

Here is my suggestion: Go back to 10 games for everybody.  Have a 16 team play-off and the winner and runner up will have played 14 games.  If you don't qualify for the play-offs you can go to the "Buds Auto Parts" Bowl against STATE A&M.  Then eveybody gets what they want, a true champion, plenty of TV revenue, everybody can be in a bowl game, and evey chamber of commerce can host a bowl game if they want to.

[AdmiralPapi]

ABN...You mean I'm not supposed to use concussion grenades to fish with???

[narch]

With the D1 schedule now up to 12 games, plus the bowl game it makes for a long season for the players.

Here is my suggestion: Go back to 10 games for everybody.  Have a 16 team play-off and the winner and runner up will have played 14 games.  If you don't qualify for the play-offs you can go to the "Buds Auto Parts" Bowl against STATE A&M.  Then eveybody gets what they want, a true champion, plenty of TV revenue, everybody can be in a bowl game, and evey chamber of commerce can host a bowl game if they want to.

this plan doesn't account for lost gate receipt for one or two games, though...this would have a big impact on any team that is not bowl or playoff eligible...

papi - i saw a 106 lb big-eye tuna caught in the pirates cove tuna round-up a few weeks ago...that's a lot of tuna steak, my friend...i may be heading your way for a long weekend soon...i'll let you know

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

With the D1 schedule now up to 12 games, plus the bowl game it makes for a long season for the players.

Here is my suggestion: Go back to 10 games for everybody.  Have a 16 team play-off and the winner and runner up will have played 14 games.  If you don't qualify for the play-offs you can go to the "Buds Auto Parts" Bowl against STATE A&M.  Then eveybody gets what they want, a true champion, plenty of TV revenue, everybody can be in a bowl game, and evey chamber of commerce can host a bowl game if they want to.

this plan doesn't account for lost gate receipt for one or two games, though...this would have a big impact on any team that is not bowl or playoff eligible...

You took my answer Narch.  It is all about the money.  Teams use those D-IAA's (or several) as warm ups to boost them up to bowl eligiblity. A team that might finish 4-6 doesn't deserve a chance to play, but with 12 games and those unworthy foes they get that chance and and DI gets money.

[CNU85]

With the D1 schedule now up to 12 games, plus the bowl game it makes for a long season for the players.

Here is my suggestion: Go back to 10 games for everybody.  Have a 16 team play-off and the winner and runner up will have played 14 games.  If you don't qualify for the play-offs you can go to the "Buds Auto Parts" Bowl against STATE A&M.  Then eveybody gets what they want, a true champion, plenty of TV revenue, everybody can be in a bowl game, and evey chamber of commerce can host a bowl game if they want to.

I like this idea....similar to basketball's NIT. You could even expand the non-playoff bowl scenario to include 5-5 teams....or like the NHL, everybody but the bottom 2 teams get to play in the "post season".  Nobody would watch them (like the NHL and NBA) and that would tell the NCAA something - people don't care about the Big Mac or Whopper Bowl!

[WLU78]

this plan doesn't account for lost gate receipt for one or two games, though...this would have a big impact on any team that is not bowl or playoff eligible...

Very good point.  I hadn't considered this. 

However, something should be done for the athletes.  I have seen somewhere that the NCAA is now considering 5 year eligibility (plus red shirt and medicals) to compensate for the extra two games.

At one time didn't teams get the extra game if they scheduled Hawaii? 

[Pat Coleman]

I think 11 games is still reasonable.