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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 92113" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>I don't think your reply really speaks to the point at issue [USER=912]@presjacket[/USER] is making. I understand the kind of machismo Ric Flair point that Tech fans make of having "to beat the best to be the best." I do <em>get </em>the appeal of a schedule where you can watch your team play FSU/CLEMSON/UGA/ND/Auburn, etc, <em>every </em>year so that every single game is a huge exciting sell out game.</p><p></p><p>But I think the point is that the college football game is not designed at all to cater to this sort of amateur fast pitch softball league or intramural approach of wanting to "take on all comers, anytime, anywhere" anymore.</p><p></p><p>It was not always like this. When a team basically played about 10 regular season games and then might get one of a select few bowl games then regular season games like Tech vs. Alabama or Michigan vs. Ohio State held so much more cache and prestige. Those games <em>were </em>the championship games. In that format a Bobby Dodd can refuse to ever schedule a team from Mississippi or can demand that Clemson take the train down to play only in Atlanta. He was making the correct decisions for the format of the game and had the success to demonstrate his acumen.</p><p></p><p>But now the game is designed around <em>actual </em>championship games, around those post-regular season conference and now 4 team playoff games. Conference leadership has to recognize this fact even more than the ADs of particular schools and work to create the fairest possible playing field among its conference members to fit in with the nature of the college game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 92113, member: 231"] I don't think your reply really speaks to the point at issue [USER=912]@presjacket[/USER] is making. I understand the kind of machismo Ric Flair point that Tech fans make of having "to beat the best to be the best." I do [I]get [/I]the appeal of a schedule where you can watch your team play FSU/CLEMSON/UGA/ND/Auburn, etc, [I]every [/I]year so that every single game is a huge exciting sell out game. But I think the point is that the college football game is not designed at all to cater to this sort of amateur fast pitch softball league or intramural approach of wanting to "take on all comers, anytime, anywhere" anymore. It was not always like this. When a team basically played about 10 regular season games and then might get one of a select few bowl games then regular season games like Tech vs. Alabama or Michigan vs. Ohio State held so much more cache and prestige. Those games [I]were [/I]the championship games. In that format a Bobby Dodd can refuse to ever schedule a team from Mississippi or can demand that Clemson take the train down to play only in Atlanta. He was making the correct decisions for the format of the game and had the success to demonstrate his acumen. But now the game is designed around [I]actual [/I]championship games, around those post-regular season conference and now 4 team playoff games. Conference leadership has to recognize this fact even more than the ADs of particular schools and work to create the fairest possible playing field among its conference members to fit in with the nature of the college game. [/QUOTE]
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