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Oh, I'm in full support. Just like on EA Sports, I would fill in my OOC games with Florida, Bama, Oregon and Texas every year. Frankly, I have started scheduling other things to do during our boring OOC games recently, like yard work or church BBQ dinners. It's not worth watching live, if we win, it's boring. If we lose, I'm pissed. So I come back and find out the game then watch it on ESPN3 while I watch interesting OOC games on Saturday night ABC/FOX/ESPN.
I don't understand why this isn't viewed as a money maker. Just think if everyone played interesting OOC games every week. You really would need ESPN to go to the Ocho. You could sell 4th and 5th tier games to TBS. We have become very myopic with this view that Furman brings in $1.2M at the gate, requires a $400K payout, so it's worth $800K to VT. You're diluting the brand with these types of games, reminding people that VT football isn't always such a great time and maybe I do have another things to do with my life on Saturdays in the fall. Play Arizona State, sell the game to Fox Sports Arizona and MASN and you're done. TV will pay you to play interesting games.
There should be some overriding Administration wing (that isn't the NCAA) where a Roger Goddell like guy runs a business that handles all the scheduling. The NCAA are the ones who allowed D-1AA games to count for bowls, the worst mistake they've made the last twenty years.
The promotion/relegation idea is GREAT, and SBNation even did a whole week on it here:
http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/5/17/3025448/conference-footb...
Regionalizing the game again but still keeping inter-conference matches would make it awesome. Why the HELL don't we play WVU anymore? I would trade Syracuse and BC in a heart beat to get WVU back on our schedule because I hate them so much and really, that's what sports are about (aside from championships). The best games are that much sweeter because they involve triumph over the teams you REALLY hate, and I could give two shits about BC. As awesome as the Tyrod win against Nebraska was, didn't the Logan Miami win feel even sweeter because it was MIAMI?
As a fan of a Premier League team (Aston Villa) that has spent the last three seasons flirting with relegation (though they appear to have escaped again this year, hopefully) I can tell you that being shitty is even more captivating than being good. Not knowing if continued suckiness will leave your team playing teams like Brighton & Hove Albion (seriously, that's the name of a team) instead of playing Manchester United and being broadcast around the world is stressful as hell. But FUN stress (at least when your team escapes). Also speaking as someone who has yet to deal with their team being relegated (hasn't happened for 25 years, long before I picked them up), so take it with a grain of salt.
The potential problem I see is UVA and Duke pushing to somehow get the Ivy League in our pyramid, then purposely (I'm assuming here they've been shitty NOT on purpose) losing their way into it so they can associate with who they always thought were their equals.
I actually thought that AM might beat Rice by 45-50 lol. I'm more nervous on the UNC game.
I understand the concerns. And I understand the good ol boys club won't like letting the new kids in (see TCU, Boise.)
The only way this works is on a level and set-up similar to the English Premier League. The bottom teams move down and are replaced with the top teams from the lower division. In order for this to work, conference ties for football would need to be dissolved in some respects.
too bad we arent playing South Carolina in 2013. Then we would have hit all the cardinal directional schools of Carolina!
See, I like this idea. It's similar to how the Premier League works in European soccer. Basically, each conference would have an A league and a B league. The bottom 2-3 teams from the A league would be replaced by the top 2-3 teams of the B league. This would make it so that each year there are 10-15 new teams that are playing without regards to status as being a D1-A or 1-AA team. Conferences would be regional so as to make travel easier and less expensive. Then you would reward the little guys for being successful and keep competition tight. I can't see the NCAA ever doing something like this though.
i know, i read this yesterday and thought to myself, "well they are"
the premiereship model makes sense to me. been sucking for years? so long duke. been kicking ass and taking names for years? hello boise. it would create more incentive to non-football schools in the big 5 conferences to be competitive and give the little guys a shot to sit at the table with the big boys.
Their coach said he cried when he found out about the series
Maybe there could be a pool of teams for each conference. That way, if a team is consistently crappy, they could get bumped down to the children's table and better teams can be brought up to play with the big boys. This would probably present a logistical nightmare, but I like the idea of merit having some pull.
I was thinking something similar, like a preseason exhibition game that wouldn't count towards rankings or records. I don't know if spring is the right time for it, but during summer camp might be interesting.
Hate Saban and his recruit-stealin, cherry-pickin, staff of thieves, but the idea of a 70 team "league" which gets rid of a lot of the chaff teams from the schedule kind of appeals... Don't see it happening though unless ESPN decides it will make more money for them.
1AAs during the spring game would be great fun
I mean they are, by a rather significant margin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_teams_by_wins
Now, now, there are some perks to playing at ECU
I'm in! RT @thoughtsfromdan "ECU is a bunch of pretty girls in sundresses wearing cowboy boots... highly recommend the trip!"— Chris Coleman (@ChrisColemanTSL) May 7, 2013
Don't know if you've been there, but ECU's stadium is horrible. I live in NC, and my former boss was an ECU booster. We got free tickets to the game which is good because, having seen it, we wouldn't have paid money to go inside.
Yep, we beat Michigan that night but lost to the Pac-12 refs.
I don't know why everybody is talking about revenge against Michigan. I remember beating them in the Sugar Bowl.
Technically they had him first...we just have him back. Like a lemon.
I think the majority Hokie Nation would be perfectly fine with never having anything to do with ECU ever again. I fucking hate their whole gimmicky atmosphere, colors, mascot, everything.*
* The preceding rant may or may not have been influenced by the outcome of a certain 2008 football game contest, that may or may not have been decided by an atrocious performance by an atrocious QB who will go unnamed.
Pretty good looking parlay, I'm always hesitant on going with the favorite on a spread as big as Texas A&M has against Rice. Could see it being a let down game and TAMU win by like 17. TAMU probably will be looking ahead to Alabama.
maybe, but do you really want ECU for a rivalry game?
We should be playing Notre Dame at home in either 2018 or 2019
as a Tennessee Hokie, +1 for the matchup. Epic game at Bristol Motor Speedway?
You know who else has pretty girls? South Carolina, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Georgia, Florida... hell, even Mississippi State and Vandy probably have a pretty girl or two.