No major changes in BCS format until after 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- If the Bowl Championship Series were to adopt a mini-
playoff format, it wouldn't happen until at least the 2010 college football
season.
BCS coordinator and Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive said
Monday he was "very, very open-minded about a plus-one," which could create
a four-team playoff.
"I think we need to take a very hard look at that," Slive told reporters at
a Football Writers Association of America meeting.
But a full-fledged NFL-style playoff has no chance of happening anytime soon
, Slive said.
"The question is 'Is 1 and 2 enough?'" he said.
Slive doesn't expect any changes until Fox's four-year $320 million TV deal
ends with the 2010 bowls.
The plus-one model was discussed by the BCS, though never seriously, when it
expanded to five games and scheduled the championship game after the four
major bowls. The first BCS national championship game was played Monday
night between No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Florida at University of Phoenix
Stadium in Glendale.
Although current TV contracts would not prohibit a BCS format change, Slive
said it seemed unlikely any major alterations could be made in time to
affect the current arrangement.
Fox is in the first year of a four-year deal for the broadcast rights to the
Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls until 2010 and the national title game until
2009. The Rose Bowl has its own TV deal with ABC, a contract that runs
through 2014.
Currently, the championship game is set after the regular season, using the
top two teams in the final BCS standings.
With the plus-one model that has received the most attention, the top four
teams would be seeded into two of the marquee bowls, essentially creating
national semifinals. The winners would play a week later for the national
title.
Another possible plus-one format would set the bowls using traditional ties-
ins -- such as Pac-10 and Big Ten champions meeting in the Rose Bowl and the
SEC champ playing in the Sugar -- and have the final BCS standings come out
after the bowls are played.
The commissioners of the 11 Division I-A conferences and Notre Dame athletic
director Kevin White will meet in March and June, and the college football
postseason will be a topic, Slive said.
He said he would approach any discussion about postseason changes with three
priorities in mind -- adhering to schools' academic missions, maintaining
the passion of the regular season and preserving the bowl tradition.
Ultimately, university presidents will make the decision, and they have
shown little support for a playoff in the past.
"I told our presidents they need to think about this and make some decisions
about whether or not the BCS format should be the way it is today or
whether they want to talk about some other format," Slive said.
The new five-game BCS format has one bowl site hosting two games in eight
days. This season, the Fiesta Bowl hosted the championship game. The Sugar
Bowl, which returned to the Superdome on Jan. 3 after skipping a year
because of Hurricane Katrina, is scheduled to host two games next season.
"The question is not what New Orleans can do for us," Slive said, "but what
can we do for New Orleans."
※ 引述《Phater (肥特)》之銘言：
: ※ 引述《martindepp (鱷魚國殺手)》之銘言：
: : 至於playoff系統,真的不是這麼簡單,
: : 要學校放棄從bowl拿到的pay out (四大bowl的pay out 在14M-16M)
: : 這等於斷了學校體育金費的左手,而且這些獎金是不需要繳稅的,
: : 加上,football game一個禮拜只打一場比賽,
: : 如果有季後賽,整個一月變成都在打球,
: : 對大學來說,這大概是他們不願意見到球員在體育和功課上
: : 又多了一些衝突和負擔,不然,有些球員成績沒達到一定標準,
: : 就不能打球,得不償失...
: : 除了時間的配合之外,NCAA也刻意要把football season和basketball season分開,
: : 所以,如果一月都是football playoff season,
: : 那就會降低了學生和學校對basketball的關心,
: : 也間接降低了三月瘋狂月的氣氛...冬天看football,春天看籃球,夏天看棒球
: : 制度和系統,只要是大家都在同一個制度下,也可說是不公平中的公平,
: : 球員有球打就是幸福,至於球迷ㄋ,只要有球看就是幸福地..
: : 2006 NCAA football season,
: : Big East和Sec可以說是最大的贏家,ACC是最大的輸家,
: : 充滿戲劇性的一年,讓UF的圓夢計畫完成,這一刻,是屬於Gators...
: : 看到大家之前這麼熱心在討論誰才有資格打冠軍盃,
: : 這就表示NCAA football的成功,
: : 接下來,就該是NFL playoff的時刻了......
: NCAA已經BCS系統反對playoff的最大理由就是學生的課業問題和賽程的安排,其實這些都
: 是硬柪的. NCAA學生運動員除了少數是真的有在唸書的以外,其他大部份都是假上課真打
: 球的. 要說為了顧及學生課業而不打playoff的理由根本是自欺欺人,連BCS內部的人都曾
: 經私下透露說這理由他們自己都聽不下去. 而且如果有playoff的話時間大概都是在12月
: 底到1月初之間,這段時間學校放假誰會唸書啊.
: 還有,如果有playoff的話也不會把season拉長. 現在大家提出各種playoff的模式大多是
: 拿一些non-BCS Bowl來當外卡賽和semifinal,比賽的時間都是現在BCS Bowl teams的休息
: 時間. 這樣子還有一個好處就是球隊不用一等四五十天沒球打. 整個playoff照樣可以在
: 1月中旬前打完.
: 最大的問題還是錢,而且是上億的錢. FOX和ABC付了天價的權利金,如果整個賽程有變化的
: 話電視轉播合約勢必會受到影響. 而且如果一些non-BCS Bowl被拿去當外卡賽的話,一些
: 排名中後段的學校會被擠到沒Bowl打,拿不到出場費和獎金誰也不會幹. 我想現在除了國
: 會像插手steroid issue一樣來管閒事,playoff是遙遙無期的.
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