Cuban tries to break B(C)$...

[SuperHornet]

...with cash.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... -markcuban

[BlueHen86]

Cash isn't the issue. Every sane person knows that a playoff will bring in more money than the bowls.

The issue is control, the people who control the bowls (and make money from them) wold not have control over a playoff (and would not make money from a playoff).

[dbackjon]

Yup - it is control that is the issue

[MrTitleist]

That'd be great if he bankrolled it.

[BlueHen86]

That'd be great if he bankrolled it.

You don't get it, he doesn't need to. By some estimates a playoff will bring in 3 times the $ that the bowls bring in, but the people making money off of the bowls would not make money from a playoff so they resist change.

Nobody needs to bankroll a playoff, it will pay for itself. What Cuban should do is buy off the assholes that are keeping the bowl system alive.

[MrTitleist]

I know and you know it would pay for itself, but don't you think the college presidents would be more inclined to consider a playoff if it wasn't on their dime, plus they'd still make money off of the playoffs?

[BlueHen86]

I know and you know it would pay for itself, but don't you think the college presidents would be more inclined to consider a playoff if it wasn't on their dime, plus they'd still make money off of the playoffs?

Agreed, but they don't need Cuban's money to make that happen. A playoff will likely generate more than enough money. It still comes down to getting people to relinquish control of a bad system.

Like I said, just get Cuban to buy off the college presidents.

[T-Dog]

I think the free market will be implemented if Cuban gets this off the ground. The conferences aren't bound by chains to the BCS but rather by neccesity as the BCS is the only game in town.

Since BCS teams are mostly taking financial baths going to these games due to minimum ticket requirements and mandatory travel expenses, having another option that would virtually gurantee profitability and extra games would be the desirable option.

Cuban just needs to go ahead and do this. Guranteed profitability and tripling revenue would get every conference and every school on board without exception. The BCS TV deal ends soon so networks would have no qualms about leaving that boat. Get something off the ground, get investors and have networks bid for coverage and the BCS will be dead.

[BlueHen86]

Sports Illustrated has an article this week about Cuban's effort to implement an FBS college football playoff. The article says what I've been saying all along - it's not about the money.

From the article:

In 1999 a Swiss marketing firm offered $2.4 billion over eight years to stage a 16 team playoff - the BCS a-holes passed.

In 2005 Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany admitted to Congress that "an NFL-style football playoff would provide three to four times as many dollars to the Big Ten as the current system does."

The BCS is the only postseason system controlled completely by it's participants (the six major conferences plus Notre Dame). They won't cede that power to the NCAA.