Playoff SEC Style

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Noah.Dreams

Noah.Dreams

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Let's quit playing the victim. We have the BCS and it is what it is.

What the SEC has within their control is the regular season schedule.

How can the SEC make the regular season more attractive to TV networks?

How can the SEC maximize their market potential?


What if every SEC team played one another, then a playoff system emerges by default and...
Every SEC team would qualify!

The SEC shouldn't create their own network and try to compete with TV networks because infrastructure and distribution is not their strength. The SEC excels in quality programming and loyal fanbase, ie RATINGS. If the SEC provides quality content with six grudge matches week in and week out, every sports network would throw money at us.

Can you imagine an SEC game every week on CBS, ESPN, Fox, TBS, TNT, ESPN+ or ESPN2?

Is it just me.... but it seems obvious that who ever controls TV revenue during the regular season will call the shots in college football, right?

The expenses for SEC football programs will increase by 20% over the next year. Don't be surprised if salaries double, if not triple, for all SEC football coaches (both head coach and assistant coaches) by 2009.

Now is the time to maximize revenue within the conference. The SEC needs to draw first blood before the Big 10. We have an opportunity to strike contracts with CBS, ESPN, FOX, TNT, TBS and devise a pecking order for weekly game selection.

The SEC has two unique characteristics. Loyal fanbase (ie ratings) and quality content (top 1% athletes and coaches). It's time to market our blood feuds to the rest of the country and then to Central America and Canada.

Do you really think the Big 10 Commissioner Delany hasn't devised a plan to lock up TV revenues during the regular season?
 
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This isn't basketball, you're asking for way too many games. The system for conference play is fine, the BCS is what is a joke.
 
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kptvol said:
If you call an improvement over a system that worked well for decades a joke, then OK.
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worked for decades??? It started in 1998! The best way in my opinion would be take top four teams and play one extra game. That way you wouldn't have undefeated teams like Auburn getting left out. Even with the BCS, LSU and So. Cal split a natl. championship, even when the BCS's goal is to pronounce one clear winner.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
worked for decades??? It started in 1998! The best way in my opinion would be take top four teams and play one extra game. That way you wouldn't have undefeated teams like Auburn getting left out. Even with the BCS, LSU and So. Cal split a natl. championship, even when the BCS's goal is to pronounce one clear winner.
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That's the best way to do it. The plus 1 would work.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
worked for decades??? It started in 1998! The best way in my opinion would be take top four teams and play one extra game. That way you wouldn't have undefeated teams like Auburn getting left out. Even with the BCS, LSU and So. Cal split a natl. championship, even when the BCS's goal is to pronounce one clear winner.
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I meant that the BCS is an improvement over the old bowl system, which worked for decades. Also, the USC-LSU dual champs thing will not ever happen again.
 
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kptvol said:
I meant that the BCS is an improvement over the old bowl system, which worked for decades. Also, the USC-LSU dual champs thing will not ever happen again.
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What about Auburn? Besides I think the plus one system would work. Unfortunately there are 4 BCS bowl games, so to compinsate, maybe 8 teams get in? or you could rotate out which bowls get the 2 playoff games.
 
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lacrossepro70 said:
What about Auburn? Besides I think the plus one system would work. Unfortunately there are 4 BCS bowl games, so to compinsate, maybe 8 teams get in? or you could rotate out which bowls get the 2 playoff games.
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Auburn was not recognized as National Champs. There are 5 BCS games. A playoff won't be happening. A plus-one is the best scenario I could imagine, but it's not likely that will ever pan out.
 
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kptvol said:
Auburn was not recognized as National Champs. There are 5 BCS games. A playoff won't be happening. A plus-one is the best scenario I could imagine, but it's not likely that will ever pan out.
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I know they weren't recognized as champs, I meant that they were left out of the championship picture.
 
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Do you know what the SEC's top priority is? MONEY

Note that $48 million of the $122 million collected by SEC football in 2006 is TV revenue. If the goal of the SEC is marketing the most dominate league in college football, then the SEC could easily run the table by tying up TV ratings week in and week out.

If you really want to show the BCS and NCAA who's boss, simply lock everyone else out of TV revenue by creating a monopoly.

Imagine if every school in the SEC played only a conference schedule. All revenue would stay in conference and a true playoff system would emerge without adding a single game.

And throughout the season, the SEC would essentially lock up ESPN, ESPN+, CBS, Fox, TNT and TBS with an entirely new caliber of game.

Also, the SEC needs to expand its market share by adding those basketball schools, West Virginia and Louisville to the conference before the Big Ten breaks up the Big East. Then it is just a matter of time before the Big 12 crashes and burns, so the SEC could entice those other basketball schools like Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska to complete the puzzle.
 
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Noah.Dreams said:
Do you know what the SEC's top priority is? MONEY

Note that $48 million of the $122 million collected by SEC football in 2006 is TV revenue. If the goal of the SEC is marketing the most dominate league in college football, then the SEC could easily run the table by tying up TV ratings week in and week out.

If you really want to show the BCS and NCAA who's boss, simply lock everyone else out of TV revenue by creating a monopoly.

Imagine if every school in the SEC played only a conference schedule. All revenue would stay in conference and a true playoff system would emerge without adding a single game.

And throughout the season, the SEC would essentially lock up ESPN, ESPN+, CBS, Fox, TNT and TBS with an entirely new caliber of game.

Also, the SEC needs to expand its market share by adding those basketball schools, West Virginia and Louisville to the conference before the Big Ten breaks up the Big East. Then it is just a matter of time before the Big 12 crashes and burns, so the SEC could entice those other basketball schools like Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska to complete the puzzle.
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Don't do drugs.
 
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Playing 11 SEC games would be stupid. We might as well leave and make our own league then. If we dont play any teams outside of us to show we can kick their butts then how do we show we are really a good conference? Do you think high school guys want would want to play in the SEC if they knew it would only play itself every year. That would sound boring to them and maybe recruiting would drop because of it.
 
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allvol123 said:
Didn't really feel like getting into the rest of the post but Nebraska is a basketball school?
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No. Neither is Texas or Oklahoma. Texas and OU have decent programs, but they are football first basketaball second. Nebraska has a god awful team.
 
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kptvol said:
If it were that simple, it would have been done already.
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It is very feasible all it takes is for the coaches and conference directors to vote it in. Its a very new issue only in the last 2 to 3 years has there been an outcry for a playoff. A +1 system will be in place sometime in the next 7 years. But it is in no way not good for business.
 
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