great bob valvano rant about louisville florida

[Millhouse]

http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

[rosconey]

great read-

 

[orangepassion]

So true. Herbstreit kept saying "I'm not taking anything away from Louisville, but ... Drove me nuts.

 

[Marsh01]

Very nice. F this system

 

[Cuseregular]

longest rant ever, but spot on. Good stuff

 

[TheCusian]

Awesome. There's this idea that the integrity of the game is this quaint notion from the olden days. That it can take a few hits, be bought and sold and it will all be OK because money was made.

The people in power don't care for it; it gets in the way. Why give Loiusville and the BE credit - that would take away from building the SEC into NFL Jr.

It's crap and it's still broken. If you took the smartest people from this board and they took a week and it wasn't sullied by money and contracts and sponsors - they would create a better, more fair and compelling system. And it would make more money in the end.

 

[zeekay]

That's the issue. It would make more money in general. For everyone in BCS football. NOT for SEC. Therefore it's in their best interest to lobby for the systems that exclude others.

 

[baggerbob]

That is the reason football needs a playoff, in basketball they can praise a team all they want, but they have to go out and prove it, look at Duke this past year. In the tournament every game is important or you go home.

 

[Moontan]

In the late 90s, a Swiss group offered over $3B to run an FBS playoff over 8 years.

Under the plan, conference champions and at-large selections would be able to compete for the national championship, similar to the NCAA basketball tournament. The first two rounds of the 16-team playoff would begin at home sites in mid-December and go through New Year's Day. The major bowls would remain intact by playing host to the semifinals and championship game in mid-January. Other bowls would perform a role similar to college basketball's NIT for schools that do not qualify for the playoffs.

For more details, see: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/704543/Proposed-grid-playoff-could-make-NCAA-billions.html?pg=all