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Brandon E. Kennedy submits the following proposal (the Kennedy Proposal) to improve the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) to its fellow Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences and the University of Notre Dame. The Kennedy proposal covers the 2010 through 2013 seasons. The Kennedy proposal addresses the current inequities and unfairness within the BCS system by affording each FBS team their divine right to win an undisputed National Championship. In a nutshell, a bracketed playoff tournament will be inserted between the NCAA FBS regular season and the January BCS bowl games.
The Kennedy Proposal helps the BCS by
1. Improving team selection by creating an official partnership between the BCS and NCAA.
2. Using a familiar NCAA college playoff format.
3. Maintaining the relationship with the current Bowl system.
4. Keeping the academic schedules of the student-athletes reasonable.
5. Enhancing the integrity of the FBS regular season.
Improving Team Selection
On BCS Selection Sunday, the BCS would use their 7* Automatic Qualifiers and 3 at-large bids to select which teams will compete in their BCS bowl games. After the teams have been selected, the BCS will use their final rankings of the season and seed the teams 1-10. These ten teams will play in a bracketed tournament (see diagram A) This is similar to the NCAA basketball selection. The eight schools that do not advance to the National Championship through bracket play are still rewarded with their respective BCS bowl games as announced on Selection Sunday. The NCAA must protect the students-athletes’ abilities to maintain proper rest and adequate study sessions; therefore, the BCS must allow each team at least seven days rest before asking them to compete in their January bowl games.
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Smaller margin for inequities and unfairness within the BCS system
B. Official partnership between the BCS and NCAA; NCAA has ownership of playoffs, and BCS still controls their bowl games
C. Current or future BCS contracts are not breached
D. Completion of the FBS season on the current system’s date
E. Millions of dollars generated for the universities, the conferences, the communities, and the NCAA
F. Definitive and more widely accepted National Champion
*If any team is undefeated and ranked in the Top12 of the final BCS poll they will receive an Automatic Qualifier.
The Format
The number one and number two teams of the final BCS rankings always receive a two-game bye, which essentially inserts them into the semi-finals. Using the 2008 season but the 2009 dates as our model, Oklahoma and Florida would have been No. 1 and No. 2 respectively and thus would receive a two-game bye.
The Texas Longhorns (3), Alabama Crimson Tide (4), USC Trojans (5), Utah Utes (6), Penn State Nittany Lions (7), Ohio State Buckeyes (8), Cincinnati Bearcats (9), and Virginia Tech Hokies (10).
This playoff structure is similar to the Pac –Ten basketball tournaments. Team with highest seed will host games. (see diagram A)
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Allowing the majority of FBS teams a chance at the National Championship
B. Affording the players, coaches, and fans a playoff while keeping the BCS bowl games
Maintaining the Relationship with the Bowl System
The Kennedy proposal adds a playoff without ridding the FBS post-season of the 100-year relationship with the bowl season.
This method creates the following benefit: Enhances the FBS post-season by adding eight games.
Academic Schedules
The maximum numbers of games any team could compete during any FBS season is 17. This is one additional game than the Football Championship Series (FCS). Instead of having three resting weeks the teams will compete and settle a national championship on the field of play.
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Limits the FBS season to one semester/quarter
B. Honors the student-athletes’ study sessions and resting periods
C. Enables a playoff while enhancing the greatest regular season of all sports
Enhancing the FBS regular season
An opening week loss and/or a closing week loss may still dramatically affect the outcome of teams’ BCS bowl chances, or possibly eliminate them. One loss could be the difference between starting the playoffs in the semi-finals or the first round.
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Games gain importance because teams could gain/lose home field advantage.
B. No team will benefit from resting players during the last week of the season.
The Kennedy Proposal does NOT replace the BCS bowls with a playoff. Instead, it just adds a mini-playoff BEFORE the BCS games to definitively match the number one and number two teams within the bowl system in the national championship game while creating exciting match-ups in four other bowl games. The Kennedy proposal decides a more widely accepted FBS National Champion while enhancing fairness, equality, and the integrity of the FBS season.
First round: ** (3)Texas *vs.* (10) VTech ** (5)USC vs*.* (8) Ohio State
winners of those two games advance, compete, and winner will play at *(2) Florida*
First Round: *(6) Utah vs.* (7) Penn State *(4) Alabama vs.* (9) Cincinnati
winners of those two games advance, compete, and winner will play at *(1) Oklahoma*
Note: Highest seed remaining host game BCS Bowl games:
Rose Bowl presented by Citi: January 1*, 2010
AllState Sugar Bowl: January 1*, 2010
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: January 4, 2010
Fed Ex Orange Bowl: Januaury 5, 2010
BCS National Championship Game: January 7, 2010
*The Rose Bowl and/or Sugar Bowl may have to be played on January 2, 2010 depending on bracket play.
I am currently living in the streets of D.C and promoting my proposal. Senator Cantwell and her staff are reviewing my work, (138 pages Microsoft Word). I will soon be heading down to Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas) and asking him to review my work as well.
To join the fight please log on to Facebook and search the Kennedy proposal. Or click the link below
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=77096094075&ref=mf
The more support that we have than the more pressure we can put on the BCS. Remember, it's pressure that turns coal into diamonds.
Thanks,
Brandon E. Kennedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_xLXzxwCI&feature=related
http://sportsnation.espn.go.com/fans/IamBrandon3Kennedy24/blog/posts/81165
Brandon E. Kennedy submits the following proposal (the Kennedy Proposal) to improve the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) to its fellow Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences and the University of Notre Dame. The Kennedy proposal covers the 2010 through 2013 seasons. The Kennedy proposal addresses the current inequities and unfairness within the BCS system by affording each FBS team their divine right to win an undisputed National Championship. In a nutshell, a bracketed playoff tournament will be inserted between the NCAA FBS regular season and the January BCS bowl games.
The Kennedy Proposal helps the BCS by
1. Improving team selection by creating an official partnership between the BCS and NCAA.
2. Using a familiar NCAA college playoff format.
3. Maintaining the relationship with the current Bowl system.
4. Keeping the academic schedules of the student-athletes reasonable.
5. Enhancing the integrity of the FBS regular season.
Improving Team Selection
On BCS Selection Sunday, the BCS would use their 7* Automatic Qualifiers and 3 at-large bids to select which teams will compete in their BCS bowl games. After the teams have been selected, the BCS will use their final rankings of the season and seed the teams 1-10. These ten teams will play in a bracketed tournament (see diagram A) This is similar to the NCAA basketball selection. The eight schools that do not advance to the National Championship through bracket play are still rewarded with their respective BCS bowl games as announced on Selection Sunday. The NCAA must protect the students-athletes’ abilities to maintain proper rest and adequate study sessions; therefore, the BCS must allow each team at least seven days rest before asking them to compete in their January bowl games.
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Smaller margin for inequities and unfairness within the BCS system
B. Official partnership between the BCS and NCAA; NCAA has ownership of playoffs, and BCS still controls their bowl games
C. Current or future BCS contracts are not breached
D. Completion of the FBS season on the current system’s date
E. Millions of dollars generated for the universities, the conferences, the communities, and the NCAA
F. Definitive and more widely accepted National Champion
*If any team is undefeated and ranked in the Top12 of the final BCS poll they will receive an Automatic Qualifier.
The Format
The number one and number two teams of the final BCS rankings always receive a two-game bye, which essentially inserts them into the semi-finals. Using the 2008 season but the 2009 dates as our model, Oklahoma and Florida would have been No. 1 and No. 2 respectively and thus would receive a two-game bye.
The Texas Longhorns (3), Alabama Crimson Tide (4), USC Trojans (5), Utah Utes (6), Penn State Nittany Lions (7), Ohio State Buckeyes (8), Cincinnati Bearcats (9), and Virginia Tech Hokies (10).
This playoff structure is similar to the Pac –Ten basketball tournaments. Team with highest seed will host games. (see diagram A)
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Allowing the majority of FBS teams a chance at the National Championship
B. Affording the players, coaches, and fans a playoff while keeping the BCS bowl games
Maintaining the Relationship with the Bowl System
The Kennedy proposal adds a playoff without ridding the FBS post-season of the 100-year relationship with the bowl season.
This method creates the following benefit: Enhances the FBS post-season by adding eight games.
Academic Schedules
The maximum numbers of games any team could compete during any FBS season is 17. This is one additional game than the Football Championship Series (FCS). Instead of having three resting weeks the teams will compete and settle a national championship on the field of play.
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Limits the FBS season to one semester/quarter
B. Honors the student-athletes’ study sessions and resting periods
C. Enables a playoff while enhancing the greatest regular season of all sports
Enhancing the FBS regular season
An opening week loss and/or a closing week loss may still dramatically affect the outcome of teams’ BCS bowl chances, or possibly eliminate them. One loss could be the difference between starting the playoffs in the semi-finals or the first round.
This method creates the following benefits:
A. Games gain importance because teams could gain/lose home field advantage.
B. No team will benefit from resting players during the last week of the season.
The Kennedy Proposal does NOT replace the BCS bowls with a playoff. Instead, it just adds a mini-playoff BEFORE the BCS games to definitively match the number one and number two teams within the bowl system in the national championship game while creating exciting match-ups in four other bowl games. The Kennedy proposal decides a more widely accepted FBS National Champion while enhancing fairness, equality, and the integrity of the FBS season.
First round: ** (3)Texas *vs.* (10) VTech ** (5)USC vs*.* (8) Ohio State
winners of those two games advance, compete, and winner will play at *(2) Florida*
First Round: *(6) Utah vs.* (7) Penn State *(4) Alabama vs.* (9) Cincinnati
winners of those two games advance, compete, and winner will play at *(1) Oklahoma*
Note: Highest seed remaining host game BCS Bowl games:
Rose Bowl presented by Citi: January 1*, 2010
AllState Sugar Bowl: January 1*, 2010
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: January 4, 2010
Fed Ex Orange Bowl: Januaury 5, 2010
BCS National Championship Game: January 7, 2010
*The Rose Bowl and/or Sugar Bowl may have to be played on January 2, 2010 depending on bracket play.
I am currently living in the streets of D.C and promoting my proposal. Senator Cantwell and her staff are reviewing my work, (138 pages Microsoft Word). I will soon be heading down to Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas) and asking him to review my work as well.
To join the fight please log on to Facebook and search the Kennedy proposal. Or click the link below
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=77096094075&ref=mf
The more support that we have than the more pressure we can put on the BCS. Remember, it's pressure that turns coal into diamonds.
Thanks,
Brandon E. Kennedy