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Post by bluehen on Oct 14, 2019 4:24:31 GMT
The Yanks and Astros in a heck of a ball game ( game 2 ) , now in 10th. Love the MLB post season...... no voting,, no committees, no opinions deciding anything...no bullshit.
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Post by Bevo on Oct 14, 2019 16:35:25 GMT
The Yanks and Astros in a heck of a ball game ( game 2 ) , now in 10th. Love the MLB post season...... no voting,, no committees, no opinions deciding anything...no bullshit.
No voting committees are needed for a sport that has, what 30 teams? and they can play games every day, even two a day if needed. FBS football is a completely different animal. (Note: No matter how many times you say it, I will remind you.)
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Post by Bevo on Oct 14, 2019 20:54:05 GMT
The Yanks and Astros in a heck of a ball game ( game 2 ) , now in 10th. Love the MLB post season...... no voting,, no committees, no opinions deciding anything...no bullshit. I wish they'd end the game a bit earlier.
It was a LATE night for a working man.... but I did get rewarded with a first pitch walk-off homer in the 11th!
GO 'STROS!!!
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Post by bluehen on Oct 15, 2019 12:40:18 GMT
The Yanks and Astros in a heck of a ball game ( game 2 ) , now in 10th. Love the MLB post season...... no voting,, no committees, no opinions deciding anything...no bullshit.
No voting committees are needed for a sport that has, what 30 teams? and they can play games every day, even two a day if needed. FBS football is a completely different animal. (Note: No matter how many times you say it, I will remind you.)
That argument doesn't fully work, Bevo, simply because the other NCAA divisions have as many or more football teams and all have competition based championships. For 'at large' selections, yes, there is some subjectivity but 'inclusiveness' replacing 'exclusivity' and 'standings' replacing 'rankings' could make it happen for FBS. It works for all the other team sports around the globe. |
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Post by Bevo on Oct 15, 2019 14:05:59 GMT
No voting committees are needed for a sport that has, what 30 teams? and they can play games every day, even two a day if needed. FBS football is a completely different animal. (Note: No matter how many times you say it, I will remind you.)
That argument doesn't fully work, Bevo, simply because the other NCAA divisions have as many or more football teams and all have competition based championships. For 'at large' selections, yes, there is some subjectivity but 'inclusiveness' replacing 'exclusivity' and 'standings' replacing 'rankings' could make it happen for FBS. It works for all the other team sports around the globe.
Always the same answer, Hen?
The other NCAA football divisions are completely meaningless to the discussion. They have NONE of the complications that plague (or bless) the FBS divisions. It's apples and oranges, or cumquats.
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Post by bluehen on Oct 16, 2019 14:39:01 GMT
Bull, Bevo. The competition based championship model of the championship divisions of NCAA football is meaningful and relevant to the discussion. It works and it's FAIR . Those divisions have determined that playing is actually better and more virtuous than guessing and voting and real championships can very easily work for FBS. The 'complications' that you mention is really only one.....the historical post season exhibition game tradition...commonly called 'bowls'. The Cartel(which includes it's media) chooses to protect that post season exhibition game system....so its not"apples and cumquats"...it's simply Championship playoff elimination competition vs exhibition competition, and Playing vs Voting if you really think this BCS/CFP stuff is a genuine national championship.
Yup..same ol' answer, Bevo, because it's truth.
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Post by Bevo on Oct 16, 2019 14:50:20 GMT
The 'complications' that you mention is really only one.....the historical post season exhibition game tradition...commonly called 'bowls'. Bowls are one complicating factor, but they are not the only one, or the biggest one. The biggest difference is: MONEY HUGE amounts of MONEY. MONEY that is controlled not by the NCAA, but by individual conferences and teams. Nobody in North Dakota cares if the Bisons play fewer regular season games so they can play in a month long bloated playoff. In Tuscaloosa, they care. And Norman, and Austin, and Columbus, etc... etc...etc... That, and 150 years of history of regional, chaotic organization. It's NIGHT & DAY different. Tic Tac To vs Rubik's Cube |
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Post by bluehen on Oct 16, 2019 15:14:43 GMT
Can't deny the MONEY factor.....Cartel greed is common knowledge. Maybe if a TV network could convince the Cartel that a genuine playoff would result in more revenue for its schools than a longer regular season and a PSEG ?...might lead to some movement. Can we thus agree that the primary complications preventing an FBS championship playoff are the exhibition post season tradition (bowls) and Cartel greed ( the $ factor) ?
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Post by doc on Oct 16, 2019 18:13:35 GMT
Hoping the Astros can win again tonight and make it a 3-1 lead. I think they need to get up 3-1 because I think the Yankees have Greinke's number. A rainout might actually play into Hoston favor and eliminate the need to start Greinke in NY, I think he'd get rocked there.
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Post by bluehen on Oct 16, 2019 19:06:31 GMT
An Astros-Nats series would great !.....but I wouldn't have a team to pull against (dang Yankees)
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Post by doc on Oct 16, 2019 20:40:15 GMT
No baseball tonight - game 4 is rained out and will be played tomorrow. This moves game 5 to Friday and bumps the OSU/Northwestern game from Fox Sports 1 to the BIG Ten Network - it better be carried in Staunton, Virgina which is where I'll be Friday night!!
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Post by bluehen on Oct 17, 2019 3:11:22 GMT
Washington's excellent pitching will be very rested with this AL LCS dragging on.
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