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FLASHBACK: BCS' Official Responses to SI Cover Story Arguing for a CFB Playoff
Posted on 3/30/15 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 3/30/15 at 3:06 pm
This is full of lulz.
www.bcsfootball.org
I still struggle to wrap my mind around the fact that Bill Hancock is the College Football Playoff executive director.
My how the Cotton Bowl is suffering in the new system.
www.bcsfootball.org
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Bill Hancock, Bowl Championship Series executive director:
If Austin Murphy's and Dan Wetzel's phantom playoff scheme ever became reality, college football's unique regular season would be greatly diminished ... SI's writers failed to quote any student-athletes. Maybe that's because they know that an ESPN The Magazine poll in August showed that when players were asked whether they would rather have a college football career with three bowl trips or one playoff trip, 77 percent favored the bowls and only 23 percent wanted a playoff.
I still struggle to wrap my mind around the fact that Bill Hancock is the College Football Playoff executive director.
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Rick Baker, AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic president:
There's no debate. A playoff system would ruin the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. Add a playoff and the Classic experience becomes nothing more than a short business trip. The Cotton Bowl prides itself on creating life-long memories for the student athletes.
My how the Cotton Bowl is suffering in the new system.
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Posted on 3/30/15 at 3:08 pm to Mac
quote:
A playoff system would ruin the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. Add a playoff and the Classic experience becomes nothing more than a short business trip. The Cotton Bowl prides itself on creating life-long memories for the student athletes.
The sky fell.
Posted on 3/30/15 at 3:45 pm to Mac
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Maybe that's because they know that an ESPN The Magazine poll in August showed that when players were asked whether they would rather have a college football career with three bowl trips or one playoff trip, 77 percent favored the bowls and only 23 percent wanted a playoff.
what a bullshite question, I guess it was impossible to ask the student athletes if they'd rather go to 1 playoff trip or 1 bowl trip 
Posted on 3/30/15 at 3:55 pm to Wishnitwas1998
yea I laughed at that part of his argument too. Basically asking 'would you rather grind out three sub-.500 seasons with one really good season or would you rather be pretty good for most of your career?'
Posted on 3/30/15 at 4:10 pm to Mac
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As to your playoffs idea the bowls would be out of business in your scenario
Posted on 3/30/15 at 4:23 pm to Mac
.....................aaaaaand it's only been one year. You have talk of playoff expansion already. With 4 teams in this argument is invalid, becomes a little more valid with 8 teams in, and definately valid with 16 teams in. Just a thought....
Posted on 3/30/15 at 4:26 pm to Mac
I do not care if you pulled this off reddit
bravo, good sir!
bravo, good sir!
Posted on 3/30/15 at 4:33 pm to ironsides
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.aaaaaand it's only been one year. You have talk of playoff expansion already. With 4 teams in this argument is invalid, becomes a little more valid with 8 teams in, and definately valid with 16 teams in. Just a thought.
that's exactly right. People will dismiss any argument that expansion will hurt the regular season because of these past arguments. IMO 4 is the perfect number, we say this year the last 2 weeks were compeling. We not only had the OSU, Baylor, TCU 3 some vying for 1 spot but if FSU, Oregon and maybe even Bama had lost late they would have been out.
If it goes to 8, what you will wind up with is the teams that win CCG playing teams that finished 2nd in their divisions and there for did not have to play in the CCG.
Posted on 3/30/15 at 6:13 pm to Rouge
quote:Andy Staples Twitter, but maybe he got it from reddit??
I do not care if you pulled this off reddit
Posted on 3/30/15 at 7:05 pm to Mac
It's been one year. Can't draw too many conclusions on the predictions these guys made.
Premature jackassification.
Premature jackassification.
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