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There’s an argument that expanding the playoff would create more opportunity for more teams which will lead to blue chip recruits not being so focused on going to the 2-3 programs every year, and start spreading talent out, and subsequently creating more competitive balance.
That argument was made to justify moving from the old system to the current playoff system. It hasn't worked that way. No reason to believe that more of the same will produce different results.
you’re basically saying that because you can’t have the bcs system back, you’d rather watch Alabama, Clemson and tOSU compete for the natty every year, instead of try to create a system that promotes some kind of competitive balance
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No, I'm saying it doesn't do anything for me to watch Bama lay 50 on the second place team in the B12 in the name of a "playoff."
You’re deliberately ignoring the argument of talent dispersion if more teams are relevant each year, which in this case, means playing in a playoff. This isn’t going to happen overnight, but the idea has merit. You’re advocating for something that doesn’t exist anymore and will never exist again.
I know that the solution is not to concentrate the focus and attention to the top few teams and that is what the playoff has done.
Going from BCS to a very small, limited playoff where only a handful of teams have chance every year concentrated the talent. There is no evidence that suggests expanding to a larger playoff would continue that trend. In fact, most people believe it would have the opposite affect, but it wouldn’t happen over night.
I’ve never understood why the playoffs and bowls need to be in the same discussion. If CU doesn’t make the playoffs I would still watch them in a bowl game.
How so? The nature of his job forces him to talk about the playoff and top teams more than the middling and have nots, but of all the CFB media he has been the most consistent and outspoken that the current system is trash, the SEC and ACC are top heavy and mostly mediocre top to bottom, and he has routinely talked about the lack of parity needing to change.
I mean, of course they’re going to talk about it. That’s the nature of the job covering the sport of CFB, but Joel’s been banging the table for the narrative to change for a while now.
Well, it’s only a matter of time before things do change and the media talking about it is actually going to be the driver of change. Blaming the media seems kind of strange
Good idea. I actually think 6 with two bye weeks would be almost perfect. All P5 champs and best G5 team. Regular season is still important to get the bye week but allows the perfect amount of competition. Not as perfect as P5 consolidation where the big 12 splits into the other four and you essentially have an 8 team playoff with the conference championships and then the playoff, but close.
I am actually surprised that ESPN doesn't push their people to talk more about the other games.
Most people meaning your adamant stance.
That's like saying before the playoff that the networks should talk more about the Las Vegas bowl rather than the Rose Bowl.
I honestly don’t understand your stance on this. I get it’s convenient to blame the networks and analysts for talking about the playoff so much, but as soon as it was created, it became all that mattered.
It’s all that matters from a national relevancy of within the sport. I’m a CU fan because I have emotional ties to a program and school and immense pride in it.
