(10-16-2018 06:04 AM)esayem Wrote:  As far as generating playoff games, you’re wrong there. The committee doesn’t even recognize the conference championship as a de facto playoff game, so bungling up your teams at the end of the season does no good for anyone.

That's because the CFP makes money for ESPN which doles out a % to the conferences. The Conference Championships are 100% owned by the conferences. ESPN would have more interest in them and the CFP would put more emphasis upon them, if they held that money.

Scheduling 3 divisions is easy, not a nightmare at all. The issue is that going divisionless might be the easier format because it accommodates odd groupings better. But either has to be approved by the 3 of P5 conferences to pass. I think that's the bigger rub. The PAC has no incentive to help the SEC, ACC, or Big 10 grow and neither does the Big 12. And then there is the odd man out between the SEC and Big 10 in the struggle for Oklahoma and Texas. The winner will want the change and the loser will refuse it.

(10-16-2018 10:48 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-16-2018 06:04 AM)esayem Wrote:  As far as generating playoff games, you’re wrong there. The committee doesn’t even recognize the conference championship as a de facto playoff game, so bungling up your teams at the end of the season does no good for anyone.

That's because the CFP makes money for ESPN which doles out a % to the conferences. The Conference Championships are 100% owned by the conferences. ESPN would have more interest in them and the CFP would put more emphasis upon them, if they held that money.

Scheduling 3 divisions is easy, not a nightmare at all. The issue is that going divisionless might be the easier format because it accommodates odd groupings better. But either has to be approved by the 3 of P5 conferences to pass. I think that's the bigger rub. The PAC has no incentive to help the SEC, ACC, or Big 10 grow and neither does the Big 12. And then there is the odd man out between the SEC and Big 10 in the struggle for Oklahoma and Texas. The winner will want the change and the loser will refuse it.

If that rule is EVER to change, it must be BEFORE the Big XII splits up, and it must include a coalition of the ACC, B1G and SEC (and possibly the Big XII if they can switch to an 8-game schedule?). Honestly, it WOULD benefit the Pac-12 as well, but those guys appear to be clueless...

(10-16-2018 11:30 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(10-16-2018 10:48 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-16-2018 06:04 AM)esayem Wrote:  As far as generating playoff games, you’re wrong there. The committee doesn’t even recognize the conference championship as a de facto playoff game, so bungling up your teams at the end of the season does no good for anyone.

That's because the CFP makes money for ESPN which doles out a % to the conferences. The Conference Championships are 100% owned by the conferences. ESPN would have more interest in them and the CFP would put more emphasis upon them, if they held that money.

Scheduling 3 divisions is easy, not a nightmare at all. The issue is that going divisionless might be the easier format because it accommodates odd groupings better. But either has to be approved by the 3 of P5 conferences to pass. I think that's the bigger rub. The PAC has no incentive to help the SEC, ACC, or Big 10 grow and neither does the Big 12. And then there is the odd man out between the SEC and Big 10 in the struggle for Oklahoma and Texas. The winner will want the change and the loser will refuse it.

If that rule is EVER to change, it must be BEFORE the Big XII splits up, and it must include a coalition of the ACC, B1G and SEC (and possibly the Big XII if they can switch to an 8-game schedule?). Honestly, it WOULD benefit the Pac-12 as well, but those guys appear to be clueless...

I think an eventual split with the NCAA which allows us to pocket a significantly higher % of Basketball profits will be what is needed to finally allow each conference to constitute itself as it sees fit.

So in other words your conference's responsibility is to implement a system (any system) that yield a champion. Then the champs only format is a simple 4 team playoff.

With hoops regular season games need to be emphasized. That would help with attendance. A conference tournament is okay, but the automatic bid should go to the regular season winner. The tournament should provide a good team that finished middle of the pack their shot at getting in the new form of the Big Dance.

If the P4 reached out to some of the stronger basketball only conferences I think we could have a very competitive tournament with 48 schools. And I think the pot shares would be much higher than the in arrears NCAA tourney credits.