Big East - College football playoff.....

[Srqhusky]

While I tend to disagree with the broad generalization in your first paragraph spanning true freshmen coming out of high school as compared to RS Jr's and Sr's from up north.....I agree with the general idea you've put out. You touch on a subject that I've written about a bit. Youth football in the Northeast USA. That's where the difference trully lies in the recruiting landscape. The public perception and the media influence on conference affiliation and all of that is all fluff.

It's the quality of player that you plan on bringing into your program from day 1 that is what it's all about. I've talked about that so much around here. Elevating the level of competition within our own roster, and by extension elevating our level of play on the field on game days in the fall, is what it's going to take to get this program to continue on the upward curve, and I believe what i"m seeing so far from 2010, 2011, and now 2012....we most definitely are ramping up the quality of player coming in to the program from day 1.

If youth football ever comes back in full force in the northeast, there will be more than enough players to field a roster that is four deep the way you describe with local northeast players. I'll save the long dissertation as to why youth football declined in the north east over the past 35-40 years, but again is on the rise. Short version is that kids are begining again to have the opportunity to earn so many more scholarships in football than in any other sport, and northeast college football is beginning to implement scholarships in large volumes again.

Well if you cut five scholarships from each team that would be less five star or highly recruited players that the a school such as michigan or Texas could sign. These players would now redistribute to other schools. Schools like uconn would reap the benefit of better players. It actually would make competition better if you want to see better players on the field . Schools like Michigan n Texas will have fewer five star athletes sitting on the bench because they will be playing.
Talent is talent wether it comes from the northeast southeast or china. Didn't a kid from Nashua just go in the second round? I just want to see more of the top end talent out of high school distributed . Wether You believe in stars or not the teams With the higher rated kids do better. You can look up that statistic.
Hopefully the bowls are redone to include the champions of the conferences that didn't make the playoffs. Has there been any talk of that

 

[Marty Jackson]

unfortunately it'll take more than winning games to win a championship in either scenario. nobody likes the status quo, but i'm not going to start loving a plan that doesn't even exist just because it's not the status quo. until we find out how money is going to be distributed it's hard to have too much of an opinion on this new plan, but if it's being developed by the commissioners of the other BCS conferences without us, i'm going to assume we're going to get screwed until i hear otherwise

couldn't have said it better... The playoff is simply a red-herring. It's how the money is split that is the real decision. And that is where anyone outside the big 4 will get screwed. Even the ACC has been relegated to an outsider with fb blue-bloods like FSU and Clemson.

 

[joey3$trike$]

This is an 8 team playoff.

True 8 team playoff would be best case scenario. I believe ND will have to choose a conference because of the $$$$ that playoffs would bring in. But will it be worth more than what they already get from NBC and being an Independent I'm not sure. I can't see how being in the SEC or Big 10 playing against alabama,lsu, or michigan, ohio st. every year wouldn't be more lucrative and better overall schedule ranking, than playing pitt, navy,army, uconn of the worlds, to be considered a top 4 team. But I know they make a shit load of $$$$ now, so how much these t.v. deals are with new conferences & championship games will make ND I believe pick a conference. Wherever the $ is they will go.