🏈 Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher not sold on new college football playoff

[sean]

PASADENA, Calif. — When Florida State’s BCS national championship coach Jimbo Fisher looks at the future of college football and the upcoming four team national playoff that will start next year, one thought enters his mind:

Be careful what you wish for.

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what gets me is his excuse for the questioning about the lower divisions do it every year. imo, it doesn't make any sense and he's basically belittling the lower divisions and saying they're not as worthy as division 1.

shame on him.

 

[TerryP]

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what gets me is his excuse for the questioning about the lower divisions do it every year. imo, it doesn't make any sense and he's basically belittling the lower divisions and saying they're not as worthy as division 1.

shame on him.

He's hitting around a point but it's a foul ball.

Sure, the lower divisions do this every year. But, those teams are only playing 10 games before entering the playoffs.

 

[TheChief]

Go back to the eleven game season instead of twelve. The schools are too greedy to put their money where their mouths are. No one's holding a gun to Fisher's head and making his team play twelve games in the regular season... or are they?

 

[TerryP]

Go back to the eleven game season instead of twelve. The schools are too greedy to put their money where their mouths are. No one's holding a gun to Fisher's head and making his team play twelve games in the regular season... or are they?

Here's my issue with that type of move.

Does the loss of one home game hurt programs? In a sense, yes. But the extra income from the playoffs may make that a wash.

How does a town like Tuscaloosa replace the millions local businesses would lose?

 

[TheChief]

If football's mission is to fund Tuscaloosa's businesses, then you suck it up and play the extra games. What did those businesses do in the past? The vast majority of teams will not be affected by the playoff anyway, only those involved in the games.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Hell, Fisher doesn't want to play two tough games a season. In the SEC, you'll be playing four to six.

 

[CrimsonPirate]

What criteria will be used to select the four playoff teams?

 

[TerryP]

Here's my issue with that type of move.

Does the loss of one home game hurt programs? In a sense, yes. But the extra income from the playoffs may make that a wash.

How does a town like Tuscaloosa replace the millions local businesses would lose?

If football's mission is to fund Tuscaloosa's businesses, then you suck it up and play the extra games. What did those businesses do in the past? The vast majority of teams will not be affected by the playoff anyway, only those involved in the games.

Chief, that's not an answer. Suck it up? I've not seen the numbers on the revenue generated by home games in several years. Assuming that number is in the 5-7MM dollar range there's going to be a trickle down effect that would eventually fall in those buying tickets.

There's still a lot of unanswered questions with the implementation of the playoff system. All we really know is 60% of the revenue will be split among the "Big Five" conferences. How that's distributed? That's not been defined.

I'm simply looking at the big picture here. If you recall, one of the objections I had to the way the NCAA handled the Penn State case was the affect it would have outside of the football program. These small businesses have an integral part of the college game day experience. It's no different in College Station than in Tuscaloosa.

Your last sentence puts a knot in our string of thoughts here. You've suggested eliminating one game on the regular season and then state it'll only affect a few teams. IF we remain at a 12 game schedule it would only affect four teams. IF we don't, it affects all 120+ teams.

As I step back and look at this I'm coming back to the same thought. We see people saying "other divisions do it" and yet they don't. We see people say "The NFL does..." and again, it's apples and oranges.