Thread: Boycott BCS sponsors

Originally Posted by DanteHicks

Don't forget, these are still college students, not professionals. "Just 4 more weeks" means they could have to miss games or practices for finals, or worse, the other way around.

Not necessarily true. You could do a 3-week, 8-team playoff during winter break very easily. Finals end in the middle of December.

Have the quarterfinals during X-Mas week.
Have the semifinals during New Year's.
Have the championship the next week.

If college basketball can have a three-week tournament mid-semester (or during winter finals for those on the quarter system, like UCLA), why can't college football have one during break?

Originally Posted by TONGA

Good luck, even without you they have more money than god.

nuff said

Most inteligent comment I have heard but I'm wondering were we would all be if something like that was said during the planning of The Boston Tea Party.

Originally Posted by DanteHicks

Don't forget, these are still college students, not professionals. "Just 4 more weeks" means they could have to miss games or practices for finals, or worse, the other way around.

Why not just scrap the "regular season" and have one giant national tournament, last team standing is the champion?

Either that or go all out - stop keeping score during the games, and at the end, have the coaches vote for who they think the winner is.

College athletes in basketball, tennis, volleyball, spelling bees, and yes .... division II football all have playoffs. They are not students? It's a dead arguement IMHO

I couldn't give two flying craps about college sports... much less college football.
Seriously, "college" football is the NFL minor league and pretending that these people are "students" is assinine.

That said, a playoff is the only way to go. I cannot respect a system that denies an unbeaten team in the same division/conference/whatever you call it... an opportunity to play for the championship. Go Hawaii... you guys got robbed.

Originally Posted by Maddogg420

I couldn't give two flying craps about college sports... much less college football.
Seriously, "college" football is the NFL minor league and pretending that these people are "students" is assinine.

That said, a playoff is the only way to go. I cannot respect a system that denies an unbeaten team in the same division/conference/whatever you call it... an opportunity to play for the championship. Go Hawaii... you guys got robbed.

Consider not posting in the football forum anymore.

Originally Posted by dbhinla

Most inteligent comment I have heard but I'm wondering where we would all be if something like that was said during the planning of The Boston Tea Party.

FTFY

I could be wrong, but I don't believe the Boston Tea Party had a corporate sponsor.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled pissing contest over college football playoffs that was already in progress.

Originally Posted by dbhinla

Most inteligent comment I have heard but I'm wondering were we would all be if something like that was said during the planning of The Boston Tea Party.

You want to compare the founding fathers fighting for freedom to a bunch of internet geeks that want change in a sport? OKAY [/sar]

The bowls will never go away but using the bowls and then having a plus one game after the bowls pitting the top two teams in the nation would be the closest thing we could get. I see it breaking down like this...

The four BCS bowls are used in kind of the same manner they are now and all played by the end of New Years day. Pitting the best of the best against each other. Then one week after that they hold hold the Championship game with 1 vs. 2 for all the marbles and the crystal football.

A couple other changes would have to be made along the way as well, the coaches poll is a joke and when those picks are made public the self serving nature of it is almost as bad as if I would have put myself in the running for Mr. LGK.

The would also have to cut the number of games down by one so that the university's won't go crying about the "student athlete's" being out of class to long. Of course these same university's don't mind cashing the checks the football department brings in for them. Basically each team has to schedule one less cookie early in the season... and there should be a penalty for that. The greatest thing I ever heard was when Michigan lost to App. State, they should have never even been playing a lower tier opponent so they got what they deserved.

Also, anyone that loses more than 1 game should never.... EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR be allowed to play for the national championship.

Just saying.

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Originally Posted by jbruin152

Consider not posting in the football forum anymore.

Holy **** I have no memory of posting this.

Originally Posted by jbruin152

Holy **** I have no memory of posting this.

LOL thats hilarious. I still think Hawaii should play in the big dance. But... since maybe I shouldn't post here... I'm just gonna go hide my head in shame