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Supposed to be a recommendation coming today to expand the playoff.
12 teams. Top 6 conference champs.Q-Finals on NYD
Four quarterfinal games on NYD would be awesome.
Like the old days!Yet, I worry about the semi's and title game in mid and late January. Talk is the semi's will not be a doubleheader. What day could they play. NFL has Sat/Sun on lockdown for the playoffs.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
So if you use this year as an example, January 1 is a Saturday. Sunday, January 9 is the last NFL week and they don't schedule Saturday games the last week of the season, so you can play the semis on Saturday, January 8.Then have the championship on a Monday night like always.
They claim they care about the health and safety of players, but now the championship-game participants would have to play 15 or 16 games - the equivalent of an NFL season?First, have an 11-game max regular season.Second, no conference championship games, as they are not necessary at all with a true playoff system.Third, make it 8 teams, not 12.Or at least be honest and admit that you don’t give a rat’s rump about the indentured servants.
Teams that go deep into the D2 and D3 playoffs play 15 games over a shorter timeframe. I don't recall any outrage over them in the past.And its not the "equivalent of an NFL season." The majority of NFL teams play 17 games minimum (versus 12 in the NCAAs) and playoff teams can then play up to four additional playoff games - so 21.
You're right about D2 and D3. Those seasons are too long, also.So far in NFL history, the majority of teams did not play 17 games; this season, yes, they will. The pros who will play 20 or 21 games -- and even those who only play a few games before suffering season-ending injuries -- are compensated well for the risks they take.
I happen to think it's too much to ask of college kids -- it's my opinion -- and I also think the powers-that-be don't give a shyte about the health and safety of the unpaid employees who line everybody else's pockets.
You're right about D2 and D3. Those seasons are too long, also.So far in NFL history, the majority of teams did not play 17 games; this season, yes, they will. The pros who will play 20 or 21 games -- and even those who only play a few games before suffering season-ending injuries -- are compensated well for the risks they take.I happen to think it's too much to ask of college kids -- it's my opinion -- and I also think the powers-that-be don't give a shyte about the health and safety of the unpaid employees who line everybody else's pockets.
Why don't we just ask the kids if they want to play more games instead of pretending to know what they want.
I think you are by and large wrong that they don't give a shyte.
They'll play whatever their masters tell them to.
All slippery slope arguments are slippery slopes, but the players are suffering from a lack of represenation here. Sure the D2 and D3 seasons may already be longer. But when the NFL extended its season, it did so at the cost of preseason games. Here, top teams are getting booked into additional games with no additional benefit. The fact that the games "mean something" now is a problem in that now players really can't sit out the bowl games if their team is ranked #12 and the game now "means something." I don't think its out of bounds to say that if you want to extend the playoff, then each individual player's maximum number of games stays capped at 15 or whatever. That way if Clemson really wants to schedule Troy in the first week of the year, fine, but they better make sure if they want to play Trevor Lawrence in that game that the national championship wouldn't be his 18th game.
Here, top teams are getting booked into additional games with no additional benefit. The fact that the games "mean something" now is a problem in that now players really can't sit out the bowl games if their team is ranked #12 and the game now "means something."
In reality this will only impact four teams playing one or two additional games.
I don’t see how there is no additional benefit...And FWIW, I’m fully in support of NLI and other player compensation models. I’m not of the “they get scholarships, shut up and play”. But these guys are still competitors and gamers. There is benefit for the schools and networks with more playoffs, of course. But let’s not act like the guys shown crying on the sidelines every year after losing big games near the end of their career are thinking “oh no, I need to play another couple games” instead of being thrilled with the chance to stay in the title race.
OK, apologies for some of the language I've used that bothers some folks. I'll try to tone it down ...First, can't we all agree that if the playoff is expanded to 12 teams, conference championship games absolutely should go? One of the big arguments for them was that they served as "de facto playoff games." Well, we'll no longer need de facto playoff games; we'll have actual playoff games -- 4 rounds of 'em! Let the body of work -- the regular season -- decide the playoff teams and the seeding. College football's powers-that-be argued for decades that a playoff wasn't necessary and that it only would water down the importance of the regular season. Now, they are embracing a watering down. And let's please be honest as to the one and only reason they are embracing it: $$$$$$$$$.So that's one less game right there if the powers-that-be will choose what's good for the athletes over the $$$$$$$$. But I'm pretty sure they won't. And I'm sorry ... IMHO that's bad, especially with all the lip service the bigwigs give to the health and safety of the "student-athletes." Others obviously are free to disagree.