Obama cant be too bad ...

[Ixiah]

He wants to have a college football playoff. ;-)

“I think it is about time that we had playoffs in college football,” Obama said Monday on ESPN. “I’m fed up with these computer rankings and this and that and the other. Get eight teams – the top eight teams right at the end. You got a playoff. Decide on a national champion.”

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-obamabcs110508&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[Snapshot9]

Sounds like a good plan to me instead of the Hodge-Podge system they have now.

Too many 'Bowl' games are played. It reduces the quality that a bowl game is suppose to represent.

[SubGod22]

This may be the first good idea he's had.

[shocrates]

Jeez, if he only would have had that as the basis of his campaign I might have.........

[WuDrWu]

Hmmm....deciding the winner based upon performance and not entitlement......now THAT is an idea based upon change.


Let's hope it is not the last one like that.


:good:

[Downtown Shocker Brown]

It will be. You really think the Big 6 will allow a group of teams to invade their cash cow?

IF they used the BCS rankings to determine the Top 8, and those 8, with no restrictions (meaning 3 Big 12 teams if it were right now, and UTAH) then it would be fair. But the ACC would not have a team in it, and would lose tens of millions of dollars because of it.

It's MONEY! That is the root of all athletics now, not fairness.

[Denny Crane]

What happens when all of these corporations that are cost cutting slash their advertising budget and quit sponsoring bowls?

[Shox21]

What happens when all of these corporations that are cost cutting slash their advertising budget and quit sponsoring bowls?

They won't. All that name recognition. That is "high priority" for them. They get a lot of bang for their buck by sponsoring these bowls. (It would be like asking them to NOT give their top executives GIANT bonuses.)

[KBShocker]

What happens when all of these corporations that are cost cutting slash their advertising budget and quit sponsoring bowls?

Thats when we get the change the BO keeps talking about. We'll have the Jihad Sugar Bowl, and the Al-Jazeera Orange Bowl, and the Bin-Laden Rose Bowl, and for his fallen friend the Saddam Memorial Bowl.