JDP
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03-30-24 09:45 PM - Post#366757
In response to weinhauers_ghost
Completely agree. The economics of football have so outpaced the economics of the other college sports, that football is negatively impacting all the other sports that are now traveling cross country for a conference game. College basketball is beholden to the economic realities of college football, but likely has some input - every other college sport is a taker and marches to football’s beat and basketball’s chorus.
Not that this will ever happen – but the question that should be asked: “If just college football was reorganized today with a clean sheet of paper and one not beholden to conference systems and past traditions, what would be the best system in 2024?”
There are a lot of possibilities of systems that makes more sense, creates more buzz and generates higher revenue than the current model. But likely no broad desire to be thoughtful – until economic reality besets enough schools, and schools have to rethink
What would I do: I would construct an eight tier “English football” division style system. 32 teams in a division and within a division, there are two 16 team conferences that play an 8-8 home and home schedule. Top 8 in each conference play a 16-game post season tournament. As do the bottom 8. There would be some relegation system where bottom 4-8 teams in each subdivision move down and are replaced with the best 4-8 teams from the lower subdivision. Relegation Bowl games would make for great TV. In time each school would find its correct tier.
All other sports can go back to their old more logical regional conferences and act independently of Football.
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