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There is now clear and convincing evidence that a four-team playoff is a mere place-holder until the real -- and bigger -- fireworks begin. Turns out, all we had to do was ask about expansion to an eight-team playoff.
That was the message recently from three powerful college administrators who were at least intimating that the four-team playoff that hasn't even begun, won't last long. Texas AD DeLoss Dodds called a four-teamer a "baby step" last week at the Big 12 spring meetings, adding "I'm an eight-team person." Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said "everybody's following the script these days" for a four-team playoff. Thompson has long been on record supporting a 16-team playoff.
Michigan State AD Mark Hollis then told Sirius XM, "I'm not sure that four is the right answer," adding that the playoff debuting in 2014 is only a "short term" answer.
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</aside> These men's opinions should not be ignored. Dodds oversees the largest budget in college athletics. Thompson is one of the 10 commissioners who devised the playoff itself. Hollis is an influential Big Ten AD, one of the most innovative in the country.
What in the name of Bill Hancock happened? We're still 14 months away from the first playoff season and there's already expansion talk.
Everything happened. The playoff structure is now out in the open in full view. We know how much a four-team playoff is worth. There is a realization of how easy it would be to expand to eight.
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That was the message recently from three powerful college administrators who were at least intimating that the four-team playoff that hasn't even begun, won't last long. Texas AD DeLoss Dodds called a four-teamer a "baby step" last week at the Big 12 spring meetings, adding "I'm an eight-team person." Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said "everybody's following the script these days" for a four-team playoff. Thompson has long been on record supporting a 16-team playoff.
Michigan State AD Mark Hollis then told Sirius XM, "I'm not sure that four is the right answer," adding that the playoff debuting in 2014 is only a "short term" answer.
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</aside> These men's opinions should not be ignored. Dodds oversees the largest budget in college athletics. Thompson is one of the 10 commissioners who devised the playoff itself. Hollis is an influential Big Ten AD, one of the most innovative in the country.
What in the name of Bill Hancock happened? We're still 14 months away from the first playoff season and there's already expansion talk.
Everything happened. The playoff structure is now out in the open in full view. We know how much a four-team playoff is worth. There is a realization of how easy it would be to expand to eight.
Read More Here:
