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College Bowl Thread

Cope said:
I'm not against a playoff system, so make it 12-16 teams. This arbitrary 4 team 'playoff' system is as bad, if not worse than the 'national champoinship' game we used to have. Limit 4 and 5 star recruits. Limit or reduce scholarships to championship teams, to keep this game competitive. I like PSU, but what is my incentive to watch football at all now? They have no shot really, as to people who like many other teams. PAC 10 schools? Florida schools? GA? it's just a bad product and it was made even worse this year with the Covid 19 outbreak.
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The playoff system is the most logical, but NCAA and Bowl Coalition are so in bed together that the big bowls demand the slots. The NCAA 40-50 years ago did what they were supposed to do, keep schools from cheating their brains out. In the last quarter century, football wise, they’ve allowed their standards to be driven by TV revenue. So now there is an even greater tier structure than what it was before. Now we have Power 5 and FBS and the equal footing is non-existent. You have players entering the transfer portals so much more frequently as the P5 schools are loading up 5 players deep at almost all positions. Scholarship ladders based on he prior year, maybe. Or a total reduction as Cope has surmised. It will never happen now since AD’s with connections to a conference TV network have to much revenue to lose without being showcased. Plus the fact that athletes will be paid now as well.


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Espn controls college football. That's just fact. They essentially bought it up like a big company buys smaller ones. Why? To reduce competition. Then they reduced redundancy by taking just what they need from the smaller companies. ESPN is doing the same. All they want is a TV product. They do not want to have to cover 100 teams and a dozen conferences. What they want is just enough teams to promote and a few other teams to be the opponents.

What ESPN wants is no more conferences. They want 1 league like a mini NFL with maybe 10 teams that are always good, another 10 that are occasionally good and fill in the rest with cannon fodder.

The rules are about to change with transfers. It has already changed quite a bit with the transfer portal. So now college football has a Draft (recruiting) and Free Agency (Transfer Portal). Very soon they are going to give every kid 1 free transfer without sitting out and without being graduated and without getting a lawyer to cite a racial incident. Just 1 feer transfer for everybody no questions asked.

This could open things up quite a bit. Sure the same teams will get most of the top guys but now that big time recruit who thought he'd be starting and finds himself 4 string will likely transfer. Also that Big Ben type QB who wasn't highly recruited but shines at a small school may transfer ($$$) to a big school.

Money will drive it all. I expect FBS level to have maybe half as many teams within 10 years. Just how ESPN wants it. Many teams will decide that they'd rather be in a lower division of football where they can compete without spending a fortune.

And of course, part of this is all the talking heads saying how you have to pay players because they are being exploited. Well, it's about to happen and the end result will be a small pool of players getting paid and and a larger pool of players not getting scholarships at all as programs either cut football or drop down to lower levels. But they will feel better about themselves so that's what counts.
 
Texas fired Tom Herman and is hiring Alabama OC Steve Sarkisian. Big move. Sark is good with X and O but how will he recruit? The reason Charlie Strong didn't work at Texas was because he didn't kiss the ***** of Texas high school coaches. Texas HS coaches essentially act as agents to their top players. The reason Art Briles built Baylor was because he had the trust of all the HS coaches so he got recruits.

Remember when Mack Brown was run out of Texas and Jimbo Fisher was run out of FSU by boosters who didn't think they were winning enough. Yeah. How's that look now?
 
Worst part of these bowl games... ESPN announcers, no one cares what they did when they played, no one cares what they eat at home no one cares their thoughts what a player should or shouldn't do, no one cares what you think a coach is thinking, For petes sake just try and call the game that is with out the long tangent about nothing and forgetting to call the play.
 
Cope said:
I'm not against a playoff system, so make it 12-16 teams. This arbitrary 4 team 'playoff' system is as bad, if not worse than the 'national champoinship' game we used to have. Limit 4 and 5 star recruits. Limit or reduce scholarships to championship teams, to keep this game competitive. I like PSU, but what is my incentive to watch football at all now? They have no shot really, as to people who like many other teams. PAC 10 schools? Florida schools? GA? it's just a bad product and it was made even worse this year with the Covid 19 outbreak.
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Why don't you think Penn State has a shot? If they go unbeaten, they're going to the playoff. I do wonder though, if Indiana had beaten Ohio State, and then Penix hadn't gotten injured and they'd gone undefeated, would an unbeaten Indiana have made the playoff?
 
MeanJim said:
Why don't you think Penn State has a shot? If they go unbeaten, they're going to the playoff. I do wonder though, if Indiana had beaten Ohio State, and then Penix hadn't gotten injured and they'd gone undefeated, would an unbeaten Indiana have made the playoff?
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Yea, they won the Big 10 and Ohio State plays in the playoff. Complete and utter bullshit...

Penn State's keeps getting ****** by the NCAA when they decided to gift the National Championship to the girlfriend beating, thieves in Nebraska in 94'/ The absolute last year I gave a **** about college football.
 
Cope said:
Yea, they won the Big 10 and Ohio State plays in the playoff. Complete and utter bullshit...

Penn State's keeps getting ****** by the NCAA when they decided to gift the National Championship to the girlfriend beating, thieves in Nebraska in 94'/ The absolute last year I gave a **** about college football.
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You mean 2016 when Penn State got beat by Pitt, and got blown out 49-10 by Michigan, then beat Ohio State on a freak blocked FG return? You think they should have been in the playoff?

I totally agree with you about 1994 though. That was one of the best college football teams ever, and they didn't even get to share the title.
 
Championship tonight. Bama favored by 8.5.

in more important news. Penn State fired their OC after 1 season. They have hired Mike Yurcich who was OC at Texas last year and became available when Texas fired Tom Herman. Word is that Yurcich was the guy Franklin wanted last year but he went to Texas. Yurcich is an up and coming coach who has had success. Texas offense was very good this year. He was also OC at Ok State when Mason Rudolph had big seasons. He was QB coach for Justin Fields at Ohio State in 2019 before going the Texas.

Say what you will about Franklin but he has been very proactive in getting the best coaches possible and holds them accountable unlike some other coach I can mention. Also, PSU assistants have been hired away for other jobs unlike a certain other team’s.

in other PSU news, safety Jaquan Brisker, CB Tariq Castro Fields, and WR Jahan Dotson have all announced they are staying in school. DE Jason Oweh is leaving.
 
Shame. I was hoping for a good game. I guess the party won’t last long for the Ohio sports fan drunk on beating the steelers. Seems a major *** kicking and hangover coming from Bama and then Kansas City in short order. Oh well, at least they have Lebron and the Indians
 
Sermon was slammed to the ground and landed hard on his shoulder, freak injury to one of the best running backs in the nation and a future NFL star.
 
Both of these teams are great and are both likeable and lack the arrogance of teams like Clemson, etc.
 
Lemmy said:
Sermon was slammed to the ground and landed hard on his shoulder, freak injury to one of the best running backs in the nation and a future NFL star.
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And you make this assessment how? He's a poor man's Derrick Henry. And NO WHERE as nimble.

I wish him the best in his recovery...

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