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One problem with a playoff

Posted on 12/7/09 at 10:00 am
Posted by PentagonTiger
Taylor Hall
Member since Dec 2008
1655 posts
Posted on 12/7/09 at 10:00 am
One thing everyone seems to forget is that if we were to do a playoff, one of the weeks a team would have to prepare for a game, would fall during a team's finals week. I'm sure most student-athletes would agree that this would not be an ideal situation. So, I am all for a playoff as long as it doesn't effect a student-athletes ability to properly prepare for the most important week of the academic semester.
Posted by Sophandros
Victoria Concordia Crescit
Member since Feb 2005
45219 posts
Posted on 12/7/09 at 10:03 am to
Yet that's not an issue for I-AA, Division II, Division III (which is non-scholarship...), and NAIA football. And it's not a problem for basketball or baseball, or for football schools that are on the quarter system.
Posted by PentagonTiger
Taylor Hall
Member since Dec 2008
1655 posts
Posted on 12/7/09 at 10:46 am to
I'm just saying that this is something that we don't think about. A student-athlete is a student first and they probably enjoy not having to worry about preparing for a game and studying for finals at the same time.
Posted by kballa6
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
4155 posts
Posted on 12/7/09 at 10:50 am to
quote:

A student-athlete is a student first


Sorry but this hasn't been the case for quite some time now.
Posted by MisterLuce
Member since Nov 2009
759 posts
Posted on 12/7/09 at 11:35 am to
The solution is simple. Extend the season earlier by one week in August. That gets one week.

The NC is pretty much a week after the BCS games so there's already a 2 week playoff that can be built on that schedule.

Hold the first round of the 8 team playoff on the first Saturday in December. Losers go to bowls and the 4 winners have a month to prepare for a 2 week 4 team playoff.

There you go.
Posted by Dr Drunkenstein
Washington DC
Member since May 2009
2918 posts
Posted on 12/7/09 at 12:19 pm to
Let the kids take their finals a week later.....problem solved.
Posted by usc6158
Member since Feb 2008
38435 posts
Posted on 12/7/09 at 12:21 pm to
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Let the kids take their finals a week later.....problem solved.



Teams that are on the quarter system take their winter finals right in the middle of NCAA Basketball tourney, yet nobody bitches about that
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