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Victor Maitlin

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  1. Their program's downward slide came long before they joined the Big Ten. The biggest blow was when the B12 wouldn't let them load up on, what at the time were called, "partial qualifiers." Osborne's success was built on a foundation of roided up lines, covering up the off-field shit of the skill players they were bringing in from around the country and some shady business of having all those in-state walk-ons getting their county's academic scholarships. Also, in most years in the Big 8, they essentially had one game per year to gear up for.
  2. While I support first round home games, I do think that the take, after operating expenses, needs to be thrown into the pot. The school would still get to take credit for the economic impact of the game on the city/town.
  3. A 16 team playoff does take four weeks to play out: 1st round, quarterfinals, semis and final. Unless you're talking about having teams play on short rest. The NCAA wraps up in 3 weekends. Yes, people love upsets. They don't love watching 15 and 16 seeded teams from CUSA or the MAC getting disemboweled by Ohio State or Bama. Put the best G5 team into the mix, and the G5 has a chance to make some waves. Send two or three additional sacrificial lambs out for sacrifice to the Buckeye Gods, and you'll have people start calling for an end to the charade and a separate G5 playoff.
  4. That actually makes the playoffs last one more weekend than the NCAAs. And does anyone really want to see some 7-4 Directional Michigan or Troy in the playoff? As for independents, +++++ 'em. If anything, an expanded playoff should be an inducement to get them to join a conference. If the best G5 can consistently do some damage in an 8 team playoff, then sure, talk about expanding it. But it'll never go from 4 to 16 without something in between.
  5. No way the playoffs expand without the P5 champs getting auto-bids. That's just something that the G5 is going to have to stomach to get their auto-bid. And to be honest, what's more likely to happen on a regular basis? A P5 champ is not ranked in the top 15 or the best G5 is not ranked in the top 15. You start throwing that rule around, and you better be prepared for the unintended consequences. I always said that you'd start hearing serious talk about expansion the year that the Big Ten or SEC champ was left out. Now add in the all-SEC final and the UCF factor, and this is the perfect storm for something to be done. Remember that it was the all-SEC BCS final that really started the ball rolling on a playoff.
  6. I'm not saying there'd be an attendance issue with the semis or final. I think you might see some fans hold off on traveling to the first round quarterfinals though. Holding the first round on campus guarantees a sell out. Like the NFL, don't want to travel in the playoffs, then do better in the regular season. And if my system were in place, Boise--had they gotten past Nevada--would have hosted a first round game.
  7. Would attendance suffer with that 3rd game though, as people hold off on spending money to travel until the semi finals? Home stadiums would guarantee sell outs, most likely in large stadiums. It also opens the possibility of Southern teams having to play up North, which I love. If you have the first round at neutral sites, fine. Just have some of those neutral site games be in NFL stadiums in Chicago, NYC or Boston.
  8. An 8-team playoff this year with first round games at home stadiums would have been: UCF @ Clemson USC @ Oklahoma Wisconsin @ UGA Ohio State @ Alabama Last year would have been: Western Michigan @Alabama Oklahoma @Clemson Michigan @Ohio State Ped State @Washington A 16 team playoff is too much. It cuts into the regular season/conference championship games and leads to situations where a 7-4 Troy team plays at Ohio State or Bama
  9. Seed 'em and first round games at home stadiums. Maybe it's just me, but I'd love to see Bama, Clemson or the Spoiled Children have to play a mid-December game in Madison, Columbus or even Seattle. And how about if Boise could thread the needle for a top 4 seed having to watch a Southern P5 team play on that shit blue turf in the cold.
  10. Yep. If they still needed to add, they would have taken some combination of Houston, Memphis and Cincy. If they need someone in the future and BYU was clearly their best option, they would find a way to stifle the student activists and make BYU happen. Now the academic freedom issues will keep BYU out of the PAC until our sun goes supernova.
  11. You're assuming that the B12 leftovers are worth anything and keep any semblance of their current media deals. With Texas and Oklahoma (and most likely Kansas) gone, that conference is not worth spit. It's G6 regardless of who they might add. You see it as BYU's entry into the P5 (as does Houston, Cincy and whomever else). In reality, you'd just be abandoning a G5 conference for a G6 conference.
  12. In a word, NO! If the Big12 loses Texas and Oklahoma, they become a G6 conference and probably the third best in the pecking order after the AAC and the MWC.
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