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FCS Championship game

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EWURanger

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Fellas, for anyone who's interested, here's a Championship promo video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSXy_D1WvlA&feature=player_embedded

Looking forward to next year's game at the Inferno. Should be a huge game as I think Sac St should challenge for a BSC title next year.
 
Is not the EWU/Sac State game in Sacramento next year? Seem to remember the Hornets falling to the Eagles
with 33 seconds left in the game on the red turf a couple of months ago.
 
Good luck. Way to knock off Nova and keep all those CAA guys on CS.com at bay. Do well in Frisco!
 
If the Eagles win we will have lost to the national champion by 4 points thanks to a last minute touchdown. Not bad ;)
 
i bet Montana State is taking no consolation in the fact that they beat the potential National Champs 30-7.

but, Central Washington must feel good about losing by only THREE.

why are they not playing this game until Jan 7?
 
During one of the FCS TV games, the announcer said it's late this year cuz they didn't want to play on Christmas Eve or Day or on New Year's Eve or Day, so they went with the 7th.
 
that just seems like such a long, long gap between the semi's and the final (Dec 17 - Jan 7). Seems like they could have picked one of these weeknights to have played the game.

everytime i hear the 'experts' talk about a FBS-level playoff and they say 'well the FCS does it', i shake my head and think 'please don't model it on the FCS'. 3 home games? big old gap between the last two games? 20 teams might be okay for FCS since nobody really knows how the regions compare, but, more than 8 for FBS would ruin things. i'd be happy with 4 teams, 2 weekends of games at traditional bowl venues.

just my 2 pennies worth.
 
Just think, if the FCS had a bowl system in place, EWU wouldnt even be competing for the NC. They'd probably be playing in the FCS version of the Humanitarian Bowl. That's the beauty of playoffs.
 
Have to go a minimum of 16 teams in an FBS playoff. 1 autobid from each conference plus some at-large berths.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-playoff120610
 
i really hate the idea of the WAC, MAC and Sun Belt getting a bid into a playoff. If the idea is to make sure the best team wins, 8 teams is more than enough.....4 would do the trick. Although with 4, you would really see a bunch of cream-puff OOC schedules.

i'd hate to see a great tradition like the Beef O'Brady Bowl wiped out by a playoff system.

:lol:
 
If the playoff system is going to exclude the non-BCS conferences, they may as well keep the system they have in place and do a “plus one” game...and the non-BCS schools may as well just drop to FCS.
 
what i would like to see them do before doing a playoff,is institute some type of scheduling requirements. you have to play at least two teams from another BCS conference (home and away). the way that Texas, Ohio State, Florida, etc schedule OOC is ridiculous.
 
I don’t think the NCAA has any legal rights in forcing schools and/or conferences to do something on an operations standpoint. From the NCAA's standpoint, the only legal thing they can do is control the post season as they do in every other sport in every other division which is utilizing a playoff. There is too much money at stake in the BCS games for major schools to risk losing their chance at a lucrative payout by scheduling other top schools. Sure they occasionally happen but definitely not at the frequency we fans would like to see.

My thing with including all FBS conferences a bid in a playoff is that more revenue would “trickle down” towards the non-BCS conferences and they would at least have a shot at a national championship (let’s not kid ourselves, even if Boise didn’t choke in Reno, we all know they had no shot at a BCS Championship bid). The NCAA is supposed to be for fair play and equality and all that other nonsense they have trampled on with the BCS and bowl system, a playoff system including every FBS conference would address this current shortfall. Also top schools would play other top schools in that if they didn’t win their conference, they would want a strong schedule in hopes of landing an at-large bid in a playoff. An FBS playoff system makes too much sense, so the NCAA will probably not pursue it as a viable option.
 
SDHornet said:
I don’t think the NCAA has any legal rights in forcing schools and/or conferences to do something on an operations standpoint. From the NCAA's standpoint, the only legal thing they can do is control the post season as they do in every other sport in every other division which is utilizing a playoff. There is too much money at stake in the BCS games for major schools to risk losing their chance at a lucrative payout by scheduling other top schools. Sure they occasionally happen but definitely not at the frequency we fans would like to see.

My thing with including all FBS conferences a bid in a playoff is that more revenue would “trickle down” towards the non-BCS conferences and they would at least have a shot at a national championship (let’s not kid ourselves, even if Boise didn’t choke in Reno, we all know they had no shot at a BCS Championship bid). The NCAA is supposed to be for fair play and equality and all that other nonsense they have trampled on with the BCS and bowl system, a playoff system including every FBS conference would address this current shortfall. Also top schools would play other top schools in that if they didn’t win their conference, they would want a strong schedule in hopes of landing an at-large bid in a playoff. An FBS playoff system makes too much sense, so the NCAA will probably not pursue it as a viable option.
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Are you saying Boise had no shot at GETTING the bid or no shot at WINNING should they have gotten the bid?

If they had no shot at GETTING the bid, that's grounds for a collusion suit.

If one asserts that they had no shot at WINNING, one look at the 2007 Fiesta Bowl puts the kibosh on that, IMO.
 
Super Hornet said:
Are you saying Boise had no shot at GETTING the bid or no shot at WINNING should they have gotten the bid?

If they had no shot at GETTING the bid, that's grounds for a collusion suit.

If one asserts that they had no shot at WINNING, one look at the 2007 Fiesta Bowl puts the kibosh on that, IMO.
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SDHornet said:
...(let’s not kid ourselves, even if Boise didn’t choke in Reno, we all know they had no shot at a BCS Championship bid).
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Reading is fundamental SH.
 
That's what I thought you said, SD. I just wanted to make sure. As I said, there's grounds here for a collusion suit. There's already a House investigation into the colluding activities of the B(C)$. Goodness knows if anything will come of it, though.
 
i'm not sure what the NCAA does these days ,after the Cam Newton and Ohio State Five debacles. its a pipedream, but it would be nice that a team that wishes to qualify would have to play a certain number of 'quality' OOC teams. or, at least, a minimum number of teams from a AQ conference.

can you imagine if NFL teams could schedule their own games? they would be lining up for the NFL west (the Sunbelt of the NFL!).

i think they'll screw up a playoff. i don't like a 16-team playoff...that's 4 more games, meaning 16 or 17 game total (conference championship, unless you have a road game vs. Hawaii, then you could play EIGHTEEN).

i'd be happy with a 4-team playoff, all neutral sites.
 
DrMike said:
i'm not sure what the NCAA does these days ,after the Cam Newton and Ohio State Five debacles. its a pipedream, but it would be nice that a team that wishes to qualify would have to play a certain number of 'quality' OOC teams. or, at least, a minimum number of teams from a AQ conference.
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The NCAA has been a complete laughingstock with all these awful compliance issues and letting the big boys get away with this crap. I saw an article that the Sugar Bowl Chairman lobbied the NCAA to not enforce any sanctions until after the bowl game so viewership and attendance wouldn’t be impacted. It’s a complete joke. Allowing a non-NCAA entity to effect its compliance and sanctions rulings is a complete mockery. Also the big boys don’t play challenging OOC games because they don’t have to. The current system rewards weak schedules because their conferences are juiced into the BCS slots. This will never change so long as the BCS is running the show.
can you imagine if NFL teams could schedule their own games? they would be lining up for the NFL west (the Sunbelt of the NFL!).

i think they'll screw up a playoff. i don't like a 16-team playoff...that's 4 more games, meaning 16 or 17 game total (conference championship, unless you have a road game vs. Hawaii, then you could play EIGHTEEN).
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I’d don’t but the “playoff adds too many games” crap. All the lower divisions have a playoff with at least 16 teams and they have fewer scholarships to offer which could translate into smaller rosters. (I don’t know what the typical D-II or D-III roster size is.) If student-athlete health was an issue, the NCAA would have never considered expanding the D-I hoops tournament.
i'd be happy with a 4-team playoff, all neutral sites.
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This is the “plus one” system. I agree that it would be a step in the right direction but the BCS would still find a way to keep the non-BCS conferences out of the top 4 BSC rankings.
 
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