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Here is the article my response is below
You are proud of that? You have the shittiest contract of all the bcs conferences. According to SI
Only in College Football do they congratulate themselves on having a great regular season instead of crowning a champion.
Come on Tom... the only reason the pac-10 doesnt want a playoff is because they are in the rosebowl's pocket and don't want to share. The rose bowl brand is 72 million and they don't want to screw that up.
Hey Tom lets put this in perspective:
Out of the 119 Div I teams
2 would play 16 games
2 more would play 15 games
a whopping 4 teams would play extra 1-2 extra games. Keep in mind there are already 6 teams that play 14 games
As for the Late December bullshit argument here is the solution. Start the season the last Saturday in August and give the teams 13 weeks to play 12 games. Have the first two rounds of the playoffs be Thanksgiving weekend and the week after. Play semi finals New Years Day and the NC game a week later.
Again a testament to your stupidity you have the worst tv deal of the large conferences.
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Q:Back to business—of which accomplishments as commissioner are you most proud?
A. A couple of things. First, setting up the television packages when I first got here. I arrived just as the courts were invalidating the NCAA football television program, and I was the administrator of that for the NCAA. Every conference then had to replicate the process for themselves. We put together a good distribution of resources and got our games on.
A. A couple of things. First, setting up the television packages when I first got here. I arrived just as the courts were invalidating the NCAA football television program, and I was the administrator of that for the NCAA. Every conference then had to replicate the process for themselves. We put together a good distribution of resources and got our games on.
The league reported only $88.78 million in gross receipts for the 2007 fiscal year, putting it far behind the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC. That's partly due to the nation's worst TV deal
Q: Speaking of football and bowls, what about the BCS and your role in it?
A: I'm very proud to have been part of building it. It's enabled the college football regular season in Division I-A—I can never stop and think of it as FBS—but the regular season is by far the most successful of any American sport. And imperfect though the season may be at times, and as easy a target as it may be, I think we've done a good job fine-tuning it. And it's very successful in terms of getting regular-season television ratings
A: I'm very proud to have been part of building it. It's enabled the college football regular season in Division I-A—I can never stop and think of it as FBS—but the regular season is by far the most successful of any American sport. And imperfect though the season may be at times, and as easy a target as it may be, I think we've done a good job fine-tuning it. And it's very successful in terms of getting regular-season television ratings
Q: That pride makes some people perceive you as, along with the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl, blocking a playoff. How does that make you feel?
A: It doesn't bother me whatsoever. No. 1, it's not my personal philosophy or position that's at question. It's the conference. I happen to agree, but it's not me as an individual. The other part is there are so many reasons for opposing a playoff. It just wouldn't be good for college football. In April 2008, the Big 12 presidents said they wouldn't let the Big 12 teams play any additional postseason games. The Big East's position is ambivalent, to say the least.
A: It doesn't bother me whatsoever. No. 1, it's not my personal philosophy or position that's at question. It's the conference. I happen to agree, but it's not me as an individual. The other part is there are so many reasons for opposing a playoff. It just wouldn't be good for college football. In April 2008, the Big 12 presidents said they wouldn't let the Big 12 teams play any additional postseason games. The Big East's position is ambivalent, to say the least.
Q: So what are the chances of a playoff down the road?
A: We get playoff proposals around the calendar, with many more coming in the late fall. There just isn't anything that would be good in our opinion. We would have to go to 16 teams. The political pressure for participation would be even more intense than in the BCS. You'd have to play the games until the championship on campuses, so you'd be playing games at Michigan and Ohio State, weather-wise, in late December or January. Most of the TV time periods that are attractive then are taken by the NFL. There are some many factors that people never consider.
A: We get playoff proposals around the calendar, with many more coming in the late fall. There just isn't anything that would be good in our opinion. We would have to go to 16 teams. The political pressure for participation would be even more intense than in the BCS. You'd have to play the games until the championship on campuses, so you'd be playing games at Michigan and Ohio State, weather-wise, in late December or January. Most of the TV time periods that are attractive then are taken by the NFL. There are some many factors that people never consider.
Out of the 119 Div I teams
2 would play 16 games
2 more would play 15 games
a whopping 4 teams would play extra 1-2 extra games. Keep in mind there are already 6 teams that play 14 games
As for the Late December bullshit argument here is the solution. Start the season the last Saturday in August and give the teams 13 weeks to play 12 games. Have the first two rounds of the playoffs be Thanksgiving weekend and the week after. Play semi finals New Years Day and the NC game a week later.
Q: Where do things stand with a Pac-10 television network?
A: We need to continue to look at that area. Our contracts, the football ones are with ABC/ESPN and Fox Sports Net, run through the 2011-12 academic year. So we have three more years under contract, and we've deliberately synched them up so we have the ability for whatever structure we want to create. We're actively looking at the marketplace, and we certainly have an eye on a network like the Big Ten formed that's very successful. We also look at the model the SEC was able to put together, where by considering a network, they were able to drive a very attractive regular-season program without creating the network.
Q: So are we going to see one?
A: I think that's still an open question. We haven't studied and negotiated enough. It's too early to make a prediction
A: We need to continue to look at that area. Our contracts, the football ones are with ABC/ESPN and Fox Sports Net, run through the 2011-12 academic year. So we have three more years under contract, and we've deliberately synched them up so we have the ability for whatever structure we want to create. We're actively looking at the marketplace, and we certainly have an eye on a network like the Big Ten formed that's very successful. We also look at the model the SEC was able to put together, where by considering a network, they were able to drive a very attractive regular-season program without creating the network.
Q: So are we going to see one?
A: I think that's still an open question. We haven't studied and negotiated enough. It's too early to make a prediction
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