If we boycott the BCS bowls we could get our NCAAF Playoffs.?

Question

Do you think we could convince people to do it to get the playoffs we want? since its all about money that they won't do it, lets boycott takew their precious money then we can make it fair between the colleges.

I read the BCS just signed a 8 year deal with ABC so if we boycott ABC will also back out of the deal and then the money greedy BCS will have to go to a play off system.

And by boycott i just mean the BCS Bowls. watching them on tv and attending.

Answer 1

This isn't Selma here. This is football. Save the boycotts for things that matter.

Anyone with a brain knows that the NCAA's line about missing school, and too many games, and blah blah blah is a line of crap. More people miss school during March Madness than would miss during a D-1A play-off. And if missing school is such a problem, or too many games is a problem, why does the NCAA continue to allow D-1AA, D-2, and D-3 football to have a play-off to determine the champion?

It's a line of crap and we all know it. I wish once, just once, someone way high up in the NCAA, someone with direct connections to D-1A football would come out and say what everyone already knows. It's all about the money. The bowl system is a JOKE.

This year, there were 32 bowl games. 32. There are 119 D-1A teams in college football. Almost 54% of all D-1A teams went to a bowl game.
By comparison, there are 336 teams in D-1 college basketball. Between the NCAA Tournament and the NIT, 65 plus 64 teams get post seasons, 129 teams between the two tournaments. Just over 38% of all D-1 basketball teams get a post season. In Basketball's case, you have to be secured well into the top 40% of all teams to get a chance at a post season. If the NCAA made up another tournament with a field of 32 teams, meaning in addition to the NCAA Tournament and the NIT, with totally different teams than the 129 going to the other 2 tournaments, that would still be a lower percentage of basketball teams going to a post season than D-1A football.

Basically, you don't even have to be in the top half of the NCAA D-1A Football teams to have a post season. 4 teams who went to bowl games this year finished the season, post season included, with a LOSING record. 3 other teams avoided a .500 season by winning their bowl game. And some of the teams that went to bowl games should be ashamed. Take the University of Iowa. They went 6-6 in the regular season, with one of their wins against D-1AA Montana. If you ask me, they went 5-6 in the regular season and had a losing record. If you want to play D-1AA teams, move to D-1AA. My opinion is that if a D-1A team is playing a D-1AA team, it's an exibition game for the D-1A team. It doesn't count, win or loss. Like I said, if you want to play D-1AA teams, move to the D-1AA level.

The entire bowl system is a joke. Everyone knows it. The only people happy with it are the fans of the team who wins the BCS championship game and the people counting the money. The NCAA line about "the tradition of the bowl games" is a load of crap too as there has NEVER been 32 bowl games until this year. A lot of these bowl games have a "tradition" that goes way back to oh, about 10 years ago or less in many cases. Looking in the College Football Encyclopedia, there were 13 bowl games that had histories of less than 10 years, and I believe there have been another 4 games added to that list in the past 2 years. It's just a sick joke.

Although I do have a question for the poster above me. If bowl games make the regular season more important, could you explain to me how Rutgers went from going into triple overtime fighting for a BCA game, to losing that triple overtime game, finishing their season 10-2, third in the Big East, and jammed over to the Texas Bowl, one of those bowl games with one of those long 6 month traditions of being played, playing 7-5 Kansas State, and going from the possibility of being broadcast on a regular network to getting not even on to ESPN, but getting your game broadcast on the NFL Network? After all, bowl games make the regular season more important.

Answer 2

Another responder said that he doubts people would boycott the games and that may be true but we know who the sponsors are and we could stop buying their products.

Answer 3

I'm a fan of bowl games... it makes the regular season much more important and exciting. I mean... take for instance that Michigan/Ohio State game... or Florida's two blocked FGs in the South Carolina game, or the SEC Championship. plus... we'd never get to see Boise State on such a grand stage.

Answer 4

i doubt people will be willing to boycott them

Answer 5

DONT THINK THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN BABY