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<blockquote data-quote="SOWEGA Jacket" data-source="post: 878155" data-attributes="member: 4334"><p>I get that. I also know history. We had folks laughing at others for decades who said the bowls would never allow a 1 vs. 2 matchup because the bowls have their tie ins and pageantry. Well look at us now. The bowls who ran the post season are irrelevant. And then you had folks saying we’ll never have a playoff. EVER. Look where we are now. And now we still have folks saying they’ll never expand because these ”student athletes” can’t play so many games. And we all know a playoff of 20 plus teams is coming in a couple more iterations. It’s all about money and nothing will stop it. You now have owners of stadiums calling the shots for games and TV execs. When the next guy with deep pockets decides he wants a piece and is willing to pay, contracts are easily renegotiated. No different than when ND and the Orange Bowl would grease each other for an invite.</p><p></p><p>I know it’s not happening right now because as you stated the process is a slog. But we’ve seen massive changes in just 25 years so I can only imagine the accelerated pace of the next 10 years when zeros keep being added to the price. The day will come, hopefully before I die, where I will be able to watch GT host a playoff game in Bobby Dodd. I hope it happens at the highest level although that’s becoming more and more of a pipe dream with our general direction regarding athletics being backwards.</p><p></p><p>And to think we use to watch 1 play 6 and 2 play 9 and then wait a day or two to see who Cecil at the Phoenix Times picked as a National Champ. In 20 years the landscape will be totally different than now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SOWEGA Jacket, post: 878155, member: 4334"] I get that. I also know history. We had folks laughing at others for decades who said the bowls would never allow a 1 vs. 2 matchup because the bowls have their tie ins and pageantry. Well look at us now. The bowls who ran the post season are irrelevant. And then you had folks saying we’ll never have a playoff. EVER. Look where we are now. And now we still have folks saying they’ll never expand because these ”student athletes” can’t play so many games. And we all know a playoff of 20 plus teams is coming in a couple more iterations. It’s all about money and nothing will stop it. You now have owners of stadiums calling the shots for games and TV execs. When the next guy with deep pockets decides he wants a piece and is willing to pay, contracts are easily renegotiated. No different than when ND and the Orange Bowl would grease each other for an invite. I know it’s not happening right now because as you stated the process is a slog. But we’ve seen massive changes in just 25 years so I can only imagine the accelerated pace of the next 10 years when zeros keep being added to the price. The day will come, hopefully before I die, where I will be able to watch GT host a playoff game in Bobby Dodd. I hope it happens at the highest level although that’s becoming more and more of a pipe dream with our general direction regarding athletics being backwards. And to think we use to watch 1 play 6 and 2 play 9 and then wait a day or two to see who Cecil at the Phoenix Times picked as a National Champ. In 20 years the landscape will be totally different than now. [/QUOTE]
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