TheUnknownMan

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What civil unrest are you thinking went on in Nola? It was pretty tame compared to a lot of places. I do worry a lot about the future of Nola. The combo of Covid and count Destroya might be too much to overcome. Nothing of significance will take place in the city until next fall and that's bad. Very bad. Despite all the shite posting about Nola, the city before Covid was better than it had been in 35 years and tourism and real estate was booming. I don't know what to think anymore.

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That's going to be the hard part, how does the city hold on? I agree the Civil Unrest wasn't bad in NOLA this time around but with the city being majority black we all know that NOLA is still a Civil Rights powderkeg waiting to happen. To me that very much holds the city back.

Obviously Mardi Gras is off, I haven't checked on Jazz Fest but guessing Jazz Fest will either be canceled again, delayed until summer, significantly reduced or virtual. Living in NOLA what is the word on Jazz Fest and other festivals for 2021?

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It’s time to ban driving on I-10 from Slidell to Jefferson Parish by Vote4MikeAck504I'm convinced half of the armed robberies and similar crime that occurs in the quarter/cbd/bywater is done by peeps from NOLA East, who then hop on the interstate and haul arse back to that shithole area unscathed.

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Completely agree. NOLA would be a significantly safer city if the East didn't exist. Not saying it would be small town America but probably more in line with other cities of similar size instead of being in the same category as Chicago/Detroit/Baltimore/Memphis/St. Louis.

In all honesty I feel like it's not expressed enough to tourists just how unsafe New Orleans East is. The city should be advising all travel companies, travel agents and travel sites to advise tourists to go around New Orleans East.

I was back in NOLA in late June 2020 (came for a few days before all the bars and restaurants got shut down again). Usually I fly but I decided to drive due to Covid-19 and the lack of direct flights. I took I-12 to the Causeway and that should be the preferred way to go to NO from the Northshore/Mississippi.

I remember when my dad worked at Stennis back in the late 80s/early 90s. We lived in Eden Isle since he wanted to be close to work (my mom looked at places in Metairie and Mandeville but he wasn't going to do that commute). I remember my mom taking me into NOLA regularly and it's so sad to see what's happened to the city in the last 15 years.

The bad part is now that trash from the East has pretty much infected Slidell as well. Slidell was never great but when I was there in June the area flat out felt unsafe. They need to bulldoze the Twin Span bridges and the high rise. Let the natives fend for themselves and destroy each other. In the very least the Twin Span bridges to prevent the trash from the East from screwing up the entire northshore.

I know I wll never take I-10 through the East again. I'll pay the extra money and take the extra time to take the Causeway.

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There is no solution to having the first team left out upset. I think that 8 is perfect, but we all have our opinions. Some of you act as if an upset is impossible in a playoff scenario. They happen every year. I just don’t think college football will ever attract the fans it once did as long as we continue with Alabama, Clemson, Ohio St., and whomever every year.

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Completely agree. Those who say the power teams won't share the money will the smaller teams are correct but the power teams are being short sighted. By strangling college football like they are they will be get a continually decreasing amount of money over time as money flows out of the sport.

Never mind the fact that the country is becoming more ubran. Urbran schools are going to gain more power and if they don't college football will become increasingly irrelevent on the sports landscape.

What's funny is undermy scenario I'm not even talking about the power teams losing money and control. They would actually gain more money and maintain almost all of their control by having 7 out of 8 seats at the table. They would essentially be giving the non power team breadcrumbs. No different than what happens in the NCAA Tournament in basketball. Even though college football is far more popular (for now) nationally than college basketball, there's a reason the NCAA Tournament runs circles around the CFP.

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Biggest problem is it's possible for an undefeated team to be left out. Most years there are 3 teams that deserve an invite, so you have the problem of inviting a dud or (in the BCS) screwing someone.

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The 2 At Large spots would be there to prevent this type of scenario from happening.

How many years has the 4th ranked team won the NC in the CFP era? I know of at least 2 off hand (Ohio State in 2014 and Alabama in 2017).

In terms of the formula I say use all respected human and computer polls. Each side makes up half of the ranking. That way even if you have an outlier computer poll or an outlier coaches poll that poll alone wouldn't really decide things.

I know this, the system I propose is still 100 times better than the selection committee.

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To many games. Do away with conference championships game. Got to 9/10 game conference schedule determine CC that way. I agree on 8 seeded games but all neutral site within current bowl structure. It’s all about TV and Corporate involvement not the traveling fan anymore. Champions still play 15 games.

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How about do away with one of the gimme OOC games instead? This year has shown that outside of coaching staffs no one really wants those games.

The first round being on campus would be for two reasons. One to reward the higher ranked teams and two would be for cost saving measure. Many schools and fans already complain about how much money they spend when their school has a special season. This would help control some of the costs.

I agree with you though on the regular season. 9/10 game conference schedule with 1/2 non conference games. Eliminate the 12th game.

Most of us agree, college football has the best regular season followed by the worst post season in sports. The fact that the playoff is only 4 teams and decided by a playoff committee that will always be swayed by the big names makes it completely corrupt. Here is my solution to College Football's Playoff Problem:

- 8 Teams (P5 Champions, Highest Ranked G5 Champion, 2 At Larges)

- The 8 Teams would be ranked 1 - 8 by the previous BCS formula that was half human poll rankings and half computer poll rankings

- Conference Championship Weekend first week of December

- First round of playoffs are the second week of December on campus sites (teams ranked 1-4 host).

- After the first round of the playoffs you would have your bowl selection. This would allow teams who lose in the first round of the playoffs to still have the bowl experience.

- Semifinal round of playoffs first Saturday in January. Games would be at semi final bowl sites similar to now.

- Championship round of playoffs second Monday in Jamuary. No change.

To me 8 is the perfect number. You enhance the regular season and make the Conference Championship weekend revelent again. Any more than 8 and the regular season starts to become devalued. Any less and it's not a legitimate playoff.

I know some people here have proposed 6 teams. I don't like that because it gives the top 2 seeds too much of an advantage they don't need. There are no byes in the NCAA Tournament in basketball, there shouldn't be byes for the College Football Playoff. Hosting a home game in the first round of the playoffs is a good enough advantage. Besides that 6 just seems not genuine. For those who support 6 just be honest, you want 6 because you still don't want to give a G5 team a spot at the table.

By eliminating the selection committee you help with the bias. Make no doubt about it, Ohio State might be the best team, but they still didn't deserve to be there. If Indiana or Northwestern had started in the top 15, gone 6-0, beaten Ohio State and won the Big Ten they would not be in the CFP. Ohio State simply got in because they are Ohio State. Same thing with Notre Dame. Notre Dame was blown out by Clemson. Let's say it was North Carolina who had beaten Notre Dame, beaten Clemson without Lawrence, gone undefeated in the regular season and then got blown out by Clemson in the ACC Championship Game. North Carolina would not have been in the top 4. The committee will simply never be able to look past the names.

Now I know some of you will say "well what if the Pac-12 champ has 3 losses and is ranked #20", "well what if the ACC champ has 2 blowout losses and is ranked #15" or "what if the top ranked G5 champ is only ranked #22". You all make it sound like it's so hard. It's not hard at all, you make a rule for it. A P5 Champion or best G5 Champion is excluded if they are not ranked in the top 15. For P5 Conferences the highest ranked team in the top 15 represents the conference. If there are no teams in that P5 Conference in the top 15 than the spot becomes at large. If there are no G5 Champions in the top 15 than the spot becomes at large. This prevents a situation where say an undefeated Ohio State loses in the Big Ten championship game to a 4 loss Northwestern team, or an undefeated Alabama loses in the SEC championship game to a 3 loss Georgia team.

The reality is this. The current 4 team CFP decided by the selection committee is destroying college football. It is making college football a regional sport. I see it in my travels. Outside of the south and midwest no one cares. No one in the Northeast, West Coast or Mountain West cares. They don't care because they know their teams don't have a chance to get in. The pandemic masked the issues this year but the reality is bowl game attendance is way down, regular season attendance is way down, student attendance is way down and season ticket sales (and the accompany athletic donations) are way down.

With my solution you engage more people in college football again. You finallly give the G5 schools a seat at the table (a seat that they have in every other sport) and not only cause the G5 schools to know they have a chance but give those fan bases hope that they have a chance. You give Pac-12 and Big 12 schools hope again that they have a chance. By doing that those fanbases are engaged and energized again.

Does my solution solve every problem in college football? No. But it is a step inthe right direction. The worst thing college football can do is to do nothing. If college football does nothing than college is doomed to become the same regional type of sport that college basketball and college baseball have already become.