CatGrad-UMGradStu said:
MikeyGriz said:
What is the FBS gonna do when the Power 5 tells the NCAA to pound sand and takes their tv money with them? How many bowl games will still be viable?
Same shit happened in 84. The NCAA lost big time and began sucking hind tit. The leader of the NCAA, Emmert, who cut his teeth in Bozeangeles is in over his head. The bowls have more money than that f###[#] farce called March Madness. That's the real joke. The only reason the Power 5 have any semblance of big school playoff is because the NCAA brokered a deal with the money behind the bowls.
I personally like change. Can't stand staying in the same f###[#] place over two or three years. Just like the national average for school administrators. I also like to watch schools nobody thinks amount to a piece of shit build decent programs, especially if I know the individuals behind the efforts to change a shitty culture mired in mediocrity. I'd rather watch a kid, or school, compete rather than just participate.
I don't believe the ncaa had hardly anything to do with setting up the BCS playoff system, and the ncaa is not involving with running it. The BCS schools run it. The BCS schools worked to set up the system, the television, and the bowl aspects, is my understanding.
"In April 2012, the BCS commissioners met in Florida and began to look at models for a four-team playoff. During the next two months, they discussed and debated several elements that would go into the new postseason model."
"On June 20, 2012, the commissioners met in Chicago and unanimously voted to recommend a four-team playoff with a selection committee, beginning in 2014 and lasting for 12 seasons, to the BCS presidential oversight committee. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, speaking on behalf of the group in the Camelot Room of the Hotel InterContinental, announced, "We have developed the consensus on a four-team, seeded playoff."
On June 26 in Washington, D.C., the presidential committee unanimously approved the four-team model, which would include semifinal games at bowl sites and championship games at rotating neutral sites. The presidents also approved dates for the playoff games, the term of the agreement and a revenue-sharing model.
The playoff was born."
This quote describes how the Group of 5 conferences negotiated to be part of the playoff system and revenue. Note reference to Mike Slive, the SEC commissioner.
"Once the format was set, then we turned our attention to the selection procedures, the revenue sharing. Our Group of 5 then became more active to make sure that the revenue sharing was equitable, or at least there was a bigger share of the revenue that would be going to us. When you think about the previous financial model, there was $15-20 million a year going to the five conferences under the old format. Today, there's $75-80 million going to the five of us. It didn't come without some hard negotiation, and I credit Mike [Slive] and Jim [Delany] for their leadership to get us to a point where everybody was able to sign off. We knew that we had to get to that endgame. We couldn't risk some other format, some other model, that didn't include us. We knew we needed to remain under the CFP model. There was a very concerted effort by the big five [major conferences] to keep us."
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/12002638/an-oral-history-college-football-playoff
) You go back to having just 4 first-round byes, with the other 24 teams playing. Then the 12 winners and the 4 bye teams pair off. That takes it to exactly what you get with the 24-bid field, where 8 first-round winners meet the 8 bye teams.