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Topic: Should playoff teams be expanded?

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ELA

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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #98 on: December 15, 2018, 01:12:59 PM »
I don't think people are opposed to playing exhibition games in locations that fans and players want to be in at this time of year.

They are opposed to then ESPN not treating them like exhibitions. 
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #99 on: December 15, 2018, 01:29:49 PM »
Getting hypertension just reading this with the high levels of sodium chloride in this thread... 
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #100 on: December 15, 2018, 01:41:17 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on December 15, 2018, 12:11:15 PM
Why do you think most traditional bowl games are held in the south?  It wasn't the SEC or ESPN or anyone else to blame for that - it was plain old common sense.  Should I apologize for it?


And let's not forget how your beloved Rose Bowl gets a pass for being in the PAC's back yard.  For some reason, just the SEC-tie in bowls have to wear that dirt.  Interesting.



WHY, OH WHY, ARE BOWLS IN THE SOUTH?!?
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The Big Ten has enough alumnus in Cali to pack the Rose Bowl. Some schools, like mine, could do it alone.

As for the SEC and wearing the dirt, well, that also has something to do with their (almost) unilateral unwillingness to leave the South for any game, any time.
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #101 on: December 15, 2018, 01:43:55 PM »
Sigh.  Again.  What is the incentive?  
This is like absurd click-bait advertising - it wouldn't exist if it wasn't effective.
The SEC would play up north all the time if it benefited them in any way.  But it doesn't.  So they don't.  So why complain about it?
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #102 on: December 15, 2018, 01:59:34 PM »
Yeah, but don't you think that playing them all in Alaska is a little bit drastic? 

Who wants to go up there in December and January? 
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #103 on: December 15, 2018, 02:04:40 PM »
Quote from: ELA on December 15, 2018, 01:12:59 PM

They are opposed to then ESPN not treating them like exhibitions.
How should ESPN treat them?  They have a vested obvious interest in hyping their product.  They are not ever going to claim "Heh, you can watch, knowing this is no more relevant than your Spring Game.".
I think there is some benefit in playing OOC games in other regions, and not that much downside, especially if you fans can take over the opposing stadium.
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #104 on: December 15, 2018, 02:08:28 PM »
Quote from: ELA on December 15, 2018, 01:12:59 PM
I don't think people are opposed to playing exhibition games in locations that fans and players want to be in at this time of year.

They are opposed to then ESPN not treating them like exhibitions.
Bowl games have always been glorified exhibitions.  
The BCS/Playoff merely shines a spotlight on it. 

Hell, for a long time they didn't even update the polls after the Bowl Games were played. Several past NCs lost their Bowl game. 
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #105 on: December 15, 2018, 02:08:39 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 15, 2018, 02:04:40 PM
How should ESPN treat them?  They have a vested obvious interest in hyping their product.  They are not ever going to claim "Heh, you can watch, knowing this is no more relevant than your Spring Game.
It seems like the only response is, "well what should the SEC do, not take advantage," and "what should ESPN do, not hype their product?"  No.  But that's not a response to why not everyone likes it.

Just because you understand something doesn't mean you have to like it, and to argue otherwise seems silly to me.
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #106 on: December 15, 2018, 02:13:33 PM »
If bowls are just exhibitions teams shouldn't especially try to win, then all games after being eliminated from the division/conference title are as well.  So I guess once the Spartans lost to OSU this year, they should've cancelled their final 2 games, right?  Deny the bowl invitation and go home.
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« Reply #107 on: December 15, 2018, 02:15:31 PM »
I think you are arguing against yourself at this point, so I'm just going to let you go to town on that.
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #108 on: December 15, 2018, 02:16:11 PM »
I don't blame whoever for what they are doing if it makes sense so I don't get "upset" about it.

I understand why ESPN does what they do, and it doesn't bother me.  I understand why companies present advertising to hype their products.

I guess I'm easy going.  It seems like a waste of energy to dislike something that makes sense and is going to continue regardless.

I expect most of us here are salivating at the opportunity to watch some of these bowl games, hyped or not.
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #109 on: December 15, 2018, 02:30:55 PM »
Well the bowls have "mattered" for 60+ years now, so I don't know why we're citing the era when the final poll was conducted pre-bowls.  I'm not upset about anything, BB is just asking the same, age-old questions and getting cheeky.  




The SEC is the healthiest conference doing what they're doing in this time and place.  To question why they don't do something differently - a something with no visible payoff - makes little sense to me.  As does endlessly bitching about it.
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #110 on: December 15, 2018, 02:32:45 PM »
You guys, let's just teach the controversy!  
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Re: Should playoff teams be expanded?
« Reply #111 on: December 15, 2018, 02:38:39 PM »
I'm glad UGA is "stepping out of the South" now with OOC games, some of them anyway.  I see it as an advantage.

Now just stop playing Tech.
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