So I won't stop harassing the Daily Toreador message board. That SVU rerun just isn't enough to distract me.
Someone inevitably posted on the discussion with the idea that bowls could be integrated into a playoff system. Did I own this kid too?
Chantico Torres Tue Sep 15 2009 08:33
It is possible to have the current bowl system and playoffs; just integrate the bowls as part of the system, thus the bowl system continues. Now, not to many people want to go to Boise in December, but if that is one of the desginated sites, then you go play there. Besides, there are 32 bowls(!). Shouldn't the payoff be a warm weather environment for a championship run?
Here's my response:
Chantico,
You cannot integrate the bowls. Its impossible for fans of a team to mobilize in a week's notice, travel across the country to watch a game and then do the same thing the next week. Imagine if Tech were to make the first round of the playoffs this year. Lets hypotehtically say Tech's first round matchup would be against Florida in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando. (A warm weather city).
A 4 person household with a gross income of $90,000 would have to go to a conference championship game in Dallas, then make travel plans and spend money to go to Orlando, Florida for the first round of the playoffs. Then imagine Tech pulls off an upset and moves on to the second round at the Fiesta Bowl in Pheonix. Are these cash strapped fans expected to shell out the money to make another trip? The fact is they couldn't.
Then you end up with half empty stadiums in the playoffs and you effectively killed the smaller bowls like the Humanitarian Bowl to create this process. I might add the Humanitarian Bowl has a rich 11 year history that pays $750,000 to both the Mountain West and WAC that need the money. The bowl also brings millions of dollars into a community that wouldn't get that tourism money without it.
So do I own this kid too? Vote 'Made Me Think' for yes and 'Pure Douchebaggery' for no.
The bowl system is fine the way it is...the only negotiable fix would be to treat the 4 BCS bowl as an 8 team, playoff. But even that proposal as many flaws that all but destroy the tradition and pageantry that is college football. The entire season is a playoff system, what more do we need? This argument gets old because it shouldn'e be that hard to understand. What makes college football great is it's not the NFL. And what makes the NFL great is it's not college football. Two great American sport products that need not be screwed with. Thanks again for screwing up the draft, Douchebag Goodell.
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