NYP Len Robbins Goes HFD... Smaller Conferences Need Their Own Playoff

[huskymedic]

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/coll...erences_need_their_own_AuadB8EPOfZ90DgmdUUx9O

>>So here’s a thought for the Group of Five — the MAC and the independents, the Sun Belt and Conference USA, the Mountain West and the American Athletic Conference: Toss out from your tent those high ‘dolers’ and create your own 16-team college football playoff.

March Madness is the greatest three-week ride in American sports. December Delirium might be pretty thrilling as well.

Imagine this:

A nationally televised selection show the first Sunday night in December after the completion of the league title games. The bracket is set up to keep an East-West flavor and the highest-seeded teams get home-field advantage for the first two rounds to reduce travel costs.

The six league championship game winners gain automatic berths. If a regular-season champ doesn’t win its league title game, it gets in. There are a few at-large berths for independents, such as BYU, Army or Navy.<<

 

[epark88]

Why the hell not?

If you're a G5 school looking at what's coming down the pike, you'd better be thinking, climbing and crawling outside the box right now...

 

[sportsart]

The rules will also say that all play off teams must institute the hurry up, spread and or Delaware Wing T for all 4 quarters. Oh and no blitzing allowed in order to increase scoring.

Might be the only way somesone besides NBC Sports would broadcast it.

Edit: The more I think about it they televise the FCS playoffs so....why not.

 

[jbdphi]

Exceptionally silly idea. The have-nots doing a playoff would become around as popular as the FCS playoffs are now, which is to say that they'll barely be followed. The appeal of the tournament format is when you have the combination of the haves and have-nots. The potential for upsets, debate over inclusion, seeding, etc. the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament has gotten it down almost perfectly because it includes such a good mix.

 

[woomba]

This is essentially the same debate as the D4 debate - if FBS splits into 2 groups, the remaining conferences not in D4 will have to come up with a way to determine a winner. What he suggests is as good as any.

 

[zls44]

Psychotic... but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!

 

[metsfan2323]

We can even call the new tournament the NIT.

Its a terrible idea and unnecessary, The AAC will compete at the highest level.

 

[coachcap]

Len Robbins is a card carrying member of the Good Ol Boy College Football Club. Although the N.Y.Post signs his primary paycheck, he has supplemented it in the past by writing columns for other entities. For years, he was the ACC beat writer for Sports Eye's College & Pro Football Newsweekly. So you know where he's coming from. He's no friend of UConn football & wishes that it would slip into quicksand.

 

[SubbaBub]

They have that. It's called FCS and it's working out so well for them. You either play at the highest level or you play somewhere else. What he is really saying is let the D4 go. The real ? is how much $ would the G5 lose.

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[justinslot]

If the G5 had been locked out of the playoff that would be a reason to hold a counter-playoff, but the G5 theoretically has as much access to the actual final four as any Cartel league. In practice (and still without knowing the exact nature of the playoff committee) of course I don't expect any G5 team except Boise or maybe BYU to get a final four spot, since CFB is absurdly corrupt and reputation-based, but still. Plus there's that guaranteed fancy New Year's bowl spot.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

P5 promoters need to shut up about what the rest of us "should" do.

 

[freescooter]

One could take a huge chance and tell the P5, you are out for football,then you're out for everything. baseball? Out, basketball, out. Lacrosse, Out. hockey, out. They would survive, no doubt, but it would be far less lucrative, because you still have to meet Title IX so you still have to provide comparable opportunities for women, that doesn't go away, which also means you have to provide championships and so on...read the Quinnipiac case for example, Not only does it become costly but it becomes complex. And while some schools might be willing to go with just football and basketball, for example, others have long and successful traditions in baseball, hockey, lacrosse etc that would argue against dropping those sports. Of course it could backfire. it could fail, but that would be the risk.