re: If you need a reason to hate the bowl system

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After reading this, I bet next year's parking fees are being setup to cover our hopeful BCS Sugar Bowl game :-)

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More likely to pay for baseball, softball, tennis, golf, swimming & diving, girls basketball, gymnastics, soccer, and volleyball

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Maybe if we had more money from a playoff, it wouldn't be necessary :-) No, the man always figures out ways to take more of my money.

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I think I am now officially on board with Wetzel's 16 team playoff with including all conferences champions included and 5 at large teams.

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what a horrible, horrible idea that is, and what a disservice it will do to CFB

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A disservice? Really? Letting the best sport in our society play for a championship on the field?

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Its still out of context, college athletic departments are non profits. All sports besides 2 lose money. What would Cincinnati's P/L look like if they eliminated all sports programs except football and men's basketball?

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The P/L might look great, but the experience for all the "other" college athletes at school would not be great. I like a little balance myself and I am ok with football helping maintain that balance.

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Or what would it be with out the BCS money?

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More with a playoff

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An NFL-style football playoff would generate three or four times" more than "the current system does." That could mean an estimated $700 million to $800 million annually to be distributed among the I-A conferences.

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The funny thing about that is most of it would go to the Big ie BCS conferences. You think a playoff is gonna be better for the Sun Belt and MAC or the Big 10 and SEC?

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The fans first and that is my primary concern. Although I think it would be better for everyone, especially the SEC who knows how to play it on the field (just as we have done for the last 4 years and hopefully this year with Auburn). I would just rather have a second chance to beat Auburn in the NCAA championship game this year.

We (SEC teams) and other BCS conferences have no problem putting teams from the Sun Belt and MAC on our schedule during the beginning of the season, why should we care if we have to play them in the first round of a playoff at home? This might be what you were already saying, but I just wanted to make the point again.

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I love the BCS and so do the University Presidents. In Fact I would love to see everyone but the BCS Auto qualifying schools go and form a play off and see how that works for them.

Let ESPN foot the bill for it. I sure as hell won't watch it. Everyone talks about how great BSU is, but the reality TCU and BSU need the big boys more than they need them.

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We do this every year, its called the bowl system. We invite 70 teams (if enough can become eligible) and put crappy games on ESPN from early December until the BCS bowls.

As to my earlier points - I don't want to keep supporting a systems that puts more money in the hands of "bowl" executives, head coaches, ADs, & especially ESPN. I would rather more of the money going to the schools and the college towns that support them.

We can still keep some of the bowls - at least the ones that would survive a playoff (most likely the bowls that have been around for a least 50 years). As long as they reduce the salaries of their executives (<<< $500K/year) and stop forcing schools to take a loss to be invited. Just like our athletic departments, the bowls are supposed to be non-profit.