Let them try to schedule 5 or 6 P4 games each year without the ACC tie in. Their other sports don't really matter for tv. When was the last time anyone else cared when ND played Duke in soccer for example. They don't move the needle in MBB either.
I agree with your first three sentences and then disagree with everything after that.
The point is it benefits both the ACC and ND.
False dichotomy fallacy. It’s not either best teams or participation trophy.
Benefits ND more in scheduling opponents and tv income. I could care less about playing them. Want a high interest game with lots of fans, schedule Tennessee or Auburn instead.
I’d prefer to schedule no SECheat teams. Why give them money only to be cheated again and again? There are plenty of other good non-SECheat teams to play.
I think you’re in the minority with wanting only 8 teams.
My plan would have the G5 with their own CFP. I agree with you there. So then, P4 conf champs and runners-up only.
That’s because you don’t want a real champion. You want a popularity and beauty contest. Which is fine. But don’t call it a playoff, and don’t call the winner the national champion
Haha, ok. In 2003-2004 Tech played in the championship game in basketball. I think most people refer to the NCAA bball tourney as a playoff, and had Tech won, I think all of us would have called them National Champs. That year Tech finished 4th in the conference; they didn’t win the ACC tourney. The ACC had 6 of 9 teams make the tournament. The SEC only had 5 of 12 teams make the tournament.
Conference Champs won their spot on the field. They deserve their spots. Anything else is simply a guess based on BS mostly.
Benefits how exactly? No one really watches non-football events other than men's basketball. I am not referring to the hardcore fans of these sports, simply the mass population.
If the sentiment is that SMU can beat Texas, then why is Texas in the #5 spot?
Every single NCAA division 1 basketball conference champion was in that tournament, so yes it would have been a real championship.
I agree, but the quirk that makes this situation is how the brackets are influenced by an SEC and B1G bias. And the need to give four conference champs a first round bye. Someone posted this earlier, but it's really an invitational tournament rather than a genuine playoff.
How?
I think the NCAAT is a smash-up of championship tourney and photo op. 68 teams to determine a champion when you know almost for certain the 12 or pr so teams that champ will come from? Nah. That’s apples and oranges.
With a 12 team playoff they should have reseeding after the first round. Also, let Vegas odds makers do the seeding after the selections are made. With the current format, one and two seeds will get screwed often and might be better off losing (or sitting out) their conference championship games.
Seriously, you don't understand how? The Prestige of the Notre Dame brand (deserved or not) puts butts in the seats at every sporting event they participate in. That means lots of ticket revenue. That includes football where they raise the average attendance numbers at every visiting stadium they play. The same holds true for basketball. In addition, their ability to make it to the NCAA tournament in sports other than football also earns the league revenue that is shared among all the teams. Plus, while they may not be full time members in football, they do play more ACC teams than any other conference and their brand brings more eyes for television which I think enhances our value come negotiating time though, it would certainly be better to have them as full time members in football, there is still some value to their part time participation.