- Tommy Tuberville has thrown his hat into the ring for the vacant Kansas coaching job, writes J. Brady McCullough of the Kansas City Star. “I can move overnight,” Tuberville said. “I’m a free agent, don’t have anything holding me back.”
- Fellow beat writer Evan Woodbery of the Mobile Press-Register asks if the window of opportunity is closing on Tuberville this offseason and how that might affect his coaching prospects in the future.
- Brian Kelly is already on the job at Notre Dame.
- The Bearcats players are TICKED. Get over it. He's a college football coach. It's your fault if you believe everything that comes out of his mouth.
- Paul Daugherty of the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that it was a lousy final chapter for Kelly at Cincinnati.
- Some candidates have already emerged as his replacement (does Boise State's Chris Petersen exist for this sole reason?).
- Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel thinks Kelly is a good hire.
- Tennessee's Lane Kiffin dug in his heels, claiming "people are going to come after us" after accusations that Vols' hostesses broke NCAA rules regarding recruiting.
- Vols safety Eric Berry said he would "miss the fans" after winning the Thorpe Award. Yeah, I think he might be going pro.
- Here's a rundown of the rest of the awards doled out last night.
- Are people really this stupid to make a big deal about a friendly bet between two governors? Yes. Yes they are.
- Mark Ingram Sr., who is awaiting sentencing for skipping bail last year on charges of bank fraud and money laundering, granted his first interview to Katie Couric.
- Steve Spurrier still knows how to work a room. UConn coach Randy Edsall was his foil yesterday.
- Want to be infuriated about the BCS? Listen to this Bowl Championship Series coordinator Bill Hancock on Adam Gold and Joe Ovies' radio program in Raleigh, N.C. His arguments for the BCS are mostly indefensible, and he repeatedly says that we minions don't understand the BCS, like it's some complex system. The hosts brings up Auburn in 2004 as the perfect season for why it doesn't work and Hancock doesn't do a great job of defending the system other than saying nothing's perfect.
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If the outright travesty that occured in 2004 doesn't bring down the BCS, I'm not sure anything will.
The BCS is all about money, bowls making money, schools making money. This is an economic issue, not a philisophical one. You can make the philisophical arguments all day long, but until someone can show that a playoff will provide the leagues and schools with equal or greater amounts of cash for postseason play, then the BCS is here to stay.
There are several sticky wickets to deal with in order to institute a playoff:
1. The playoff structure (8 team, 16 team? etc)
2. Conference championships (either everyone does or no one does)
3. extended season (is a 12 game regular season really necessary? I think a 10 game season would be better honestly)
4. get rid of bowls or tie them into the playoffs?
5. money. can a playoff generate the same or more money than the current bowl system? (I say more, but I'm not an economist)
To answer some of jdinmacon's questions. here's what I would say:
1) 8-team playoff. This gets every undefeated team in the mix no matter what. It's the top 8 from a list of rankings. A conference championship doesn't automatically get you in (otherwise some winner of a weak sister conference could sneak in). First-round games are on home sites. Play the first round right after the season. The next two rounds closer to New Years. And the four teams that lose in the first round of the playoffs can still go to a bowl game. That way those fans can still have a postseason destination to look forward to.
2) Have conference championship games if you want. It shouldn't decide who gets into the playoff. If a conference wants to risk its best team losing that late in the year, fine. If a conference thinks that playing a round robin schedule is a better idea, that's fine too.
3) I think you'd be hard-pressed to have schools give up on the 12-game season, since it would mean a ton of lost revenue. I'd vote 11 games, but that won't happen.
4) Keep the bowls. Keep them separate from the playoffs. Only the four best teams would be separated from the bowl selections, so there are still plenty of good matchups out there.
5) I've always though the idea that a playoff system wouldn't generate more money is preposterous. How much money does the NCAA basketball tournament rake in a year just in TV deals alone? (I just checked. CBS signed an 11-year, $6 billion contract.) People and advertisers will pay for football games, regardless of whether it's a bowl or a playoff. Anybody who says otherwise is lying.
No.
16 team playoff, just like they do at every other level in the NCAA (FCS, Division II, and Division III all have 16 team playoffs).
This is the best article I have seen, and it shows how a playoff could be done:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-ncaafplayoff120709&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
It's time for a playoff system.
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