Florida sold 7,000 seats to the Sugar Bowl

[whaler11]

Not disagreeing, but that was my point. The NCAA needs to dictate to ESPN. Sure, may hurt $$$ in short run, but in long run ESPN needs sports programming that the networks don't depend entirely on. Again, the NCAA needs to inform ESPN that these are the games your getting and the time slots you should have your crews in place for it. Dog needs to wag tail, not tail wagging dog.

The NCAA doesn't run the BCS or those bowl games in any way shape or form.

 

[HartfordHank]

Not disagreeing, but that was my point. The NCAA needs to dictate to ESPN. Sure, may hurt $$$ in short run, but in long run ESPN needs sports programming that the networks don't depend entirely on. Again, the NCAA needs to inform ESPN that these are the games your getting and the time slots you should have your crews in place for it. Dog needs to wag tail, not tail wagging dog.

The NFL doesn't dictate to TV how is the NCAA going to? You pay the bills you get to make the rules.

 

[SouthTampaBill]

quote="TouchdownHusky, post: 455885, member: 1278"]Don't pick on Florida, they were "depressed". No Division Championship. No Conference Championship. They go 11-1 in the regular season and have nothing to show for it. Ahhh. . . aren't these Super Conferences Great! The Gators probably didn't bother "to show up" since they were out of the SEC and NC condsideration. Heck go 9-3, and they fire the HC. Oh wait . . . my bad, that's UConn.

College Football needs to be reformed. How?

1. Go back to smaller regional conferences (no bigger than 9 schools so that you have 4 home and 4 away conference games a year). That way you have to play everyone in your conference. No Alabama's ducking Florida like this past season.

2. Smaller, regional conference winners (not also rans) get to go to the big bowls. No conference championship games. That's nothing but made for television crap. In the smaller conferences, you'd have to play everyone in your conference anyway so there'd be no need for this extra game. If programs need the extra game, then let all schools schedule a 13th or a 14th game.

3. All major bowls need to be played on New Year's Day (like the old days) - which should mark the official end of the season. Make the event an "event" - part of a holiday vacation and not some middle of the week game. At the end of New Year's Day, the National Champion (or Co-Champs) can be decided just like in the old days. If there is not a clear cut champion . . . oh well. . . it'll make for great "hot stove" and "tap room" off season debates.

4. The NCAA and the college programs need to get back in control of things. They need to tell ESPN - for instance - what game(s) they will be allowed to televise and what day or time slot coverage will begin. If they don't like it? Next! This crap about playing the NC game a week after New Year in . . . crap. Remember all those asinine arguments use against a playoff proposal - "It would extend the season too long for student-athletes". Although North Carolina has figured that one out - fraudulent courses with no penalties (thereby avoiding losing 25 basketball scholarships over two years for failure to meet APR like UConn).

5. When teams like Florida (with the a loss at the wrong time) want to crab about having to play in some small, obscure, pre-New Year's Day Bowl, the solution is simple. . . don't lose to the eventual conference champion in October.

6. Oh and one more thing. College football needs to dictate to ESPN regarding all the specifics of any games they televise. Remember they need the programming during prime time, the networks don't. Let ESPN go back to televising Australian Rules Football if they don't like the terms. Stop allowing televsion to ruin college football.[/quote]

Alabama does not set its own SEC schedule and therefore did not "duck" Florida, knucklehead. Alabama would have beaten the crap out of Florida anyway like they did last year, 38-10.
If you want to complain about something, Florida has not played a game above the Mason-Dixon line in 12 years. All 65-85 degree games.
They do not play any non conference games away except for the FSU rivalry. Pretty lame

 

[lsuconnman]

"3. All major bowls need to be played on New Year's Day (like the old days)"

...WTF? All this time, I've been told that nobody ever liked the system in "old days"...and a new system is needed to keep the old system economically sustainable...and the new system needs to be modeled after the old system. I'm so confused!

 

[J187Money]

I'm not arguing that anyone wants to watch these other games either.

Miami may follow college football closely but they don't attend games. See the U and the Dolphins. The Orange Bowl has been dying for years. The Fiesta Bowl happened to be pretty well attended. It was a function of the date and next to free tickets in the secondary market - not that UConn is any bigger draw than FSU or Oklahoma or Florida or Louisville.

Case in point. They put a night club in the south endzone in place of the suites they can't sell.

 

[traitor71]

I'm not arguing that anyone wants to watch these other games either.

Miami may follow college football closely but they don't attend games. See the U and the Dolphins. The Orange Bowl has been dying for years. The Fiesta Bowl happened to be pretty well attended. It was a function of the date and next to free tickets in the secondary market - not that UConn is any bigger draw than FSU or Oklahoma or Florida or Louisville.

Like just about every other place, you need to win here for people to show up. And not just one good season from time to time, I mean win every year consistently as used to be the case down here. The Dolphins sold out forever, the Hurricanes have no problem getting 60 k to show up when they are winning. Ten years of blah football have beaten everyone into the ground down here and people just aren't going to part with any money until they start seeing something tangible on the field.

As for the Orange Bowl game, there just isn't any sizzle anymore. It used to be a game that helped decide the championship, now it usually gets stuck with boring, uninteresting teams and that is an impossible sell down here.

 

[Calhoun's Court]

Wow 7K thats BCU-esque !!