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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 94262" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>You are scratching here at a basic problem I have with how D1 college football alone has failed to institute a playoff system to determine a yearly "champion" like all the other sports did long ago.</p><p></p><p>It seems to me that "generating fan interest" or "more revenue" should be ignored by the powers that be in the same sense that it was "ignored" by every single other sporting league that has found a way to create an annually repeatable format of athletic competition that can determine as reasonably and equitably as possible (in this imperfect vale of tears) who that year's "best" or "championship" team happens to be. I think that "if you build it they will come," that is, the sport itself will be improved and hence your material interests will ultimately be furthered.</p><p></p><p>This is especially true for a sport tied to colleges because fan interest in the sport is built upon the foundation of identification with a specific college, or even just a local community. There is pride in one's alma mater or local pride at the heart of support for college athletics and thus a remarkable degree of "fan interest" is a fundamental <em>given</em>. This was just as true before the first college football game was broadcast on radio (I checked and it was Pitt beating WVU in 1921), as it was true before the first TV broadcast (Checked again and that was a team called the "Yellow Jackets" . . . of Waynesburg, PA against Fordham in 1939). </p><p></p><p>The way it operates now ESPN has to spend insane amounts of money and time in propaganda to stoke interest in the b.s. college football bowl postseason and BCS games--now "playoffs." If the sport simply had a better format in place then they could be saved from some of the expense of spewing propaganda.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 94262, member: 231"] You are scratching here at a basic problem I have with how D1 college football alone has failed to institute a playoff system to determine a yearly "champion" like all the other sports did long ago. It seems to me that "generating fan interest" or "more revenue" should be ignored by the powers that be in the same sense that it was "ignored" by every single other sporting league that has found a way to create an annually repeatable format of athletic competition that can determine as reasonably and equitably as possible (in this imperfect vale of tears) who that year's "best" or "championship" team happens to be. I think that "if you build it they will come," that is, the sport itself will be improved and hence your material interests will ultimately be furthered. This is especially true for a sport tied to colleges because fan interest in the sport is built upon the foundation of identification with a specific college, or even just a local community. There is pride in one's alma mater or local pride at the heart of support for college athletics and thus a remarkable degree of "fan interest" is a fundamental [I]given[/I]. This was just as true before the first college football game was broadcast on radio (I checked and it was Pitt beating WVU in 1921), as it was true before the first TV broadcast (Checked again and that was a team called the "Yellow Jackets" . . . of Waynesburg, PA against Fordham in 1939). The way it operates now ESPN has to spend insane amounts of money and time in propaganda to stoke interest in the b.s. college football bowl postseason and BCS games--now "playoffs." If the sport simply had a better format in place then they could be saved from some of the expense of spewing propaganda. [/QUOTE]
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