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Originally Posted by dudeosu
The Big 10 commissioner even admitted to congress that a playoff could generate up to 4 times as much revenue as the current BCS model!
Big 12 blew it by eschewing playoff - College Football - Rivals.com
That's an assumption. Without any real status change for the non-playoff bowls or what the games mean, why would you assume their appeal would change? Really, what story is being changed? Meangingless bowl is still meaningless with or without a playoff. I just don't see any evidence that would change anything.
Maybe not exclusively team fans, but still most of the viewers are probably either at least fans of the team or fans of the conference. There's multiple levels of fanhood in college, that's (partially) what I meant by building fan bases differently. Why else does ESPN do regional coverage (like when you see that map)?
Quite often? Are you making this up? What do you even mean by real link? I don't think you can make that statement and be really all that familiar with college fandom.
Well then pick the teams and we'll see. West Virginia going to the FCS would be a massive drop off. You're going to have plenty if it's only 40 teams. |
The playoff itself generating more money is a given. That's not the dispute at all. IF you shift so much emphasis onto a few games, of course they are going to be worth more.
And how is the story not changing? Just look at how the media is treating the bowls right now, and imagine how they'd be treated if there is a playoff. Right now each bowl is a stand-alone game that gets some attention. That attention would be replaced by a bigger playoff if there is one. These kind of things have tons of interactions, and a good example would be looking at how teams/fans treat the league cups in various football leagues around the world.
When I say real links I mean personally attending those schools. We can all manufacture links by saying I have this relative or that neighbor going to a certain school, but I believe that's something we can easily adopt.
And yes, there will be cases of big drop-offs, but obviously you know it's not a across the board thing. And the bigger schools that got dropped would have a not-very-attractive consolation prize of being able to dominate the second division. Relegation will never happen, or that would be the solution. I don't think that kind of thing would kill rivalries actually. For a rivalry to work well, two teams would need to be at the similar talent level anyway, which means the two teams most likely would be in the same division when you have the relegation system.