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Because the SEC and the Big 10 want to continue their lucrative conference championship games and share as little playoff money with other conferences as they can get away with. You don't accomplish either of those goals by expanding the playoffs.
Well you certainly accomplish killing college football.
Yep. College football is dead. All in the name of greed. If the money wasn't really all that big, you wouldn't see the SEC and Big 10 so adamant about keeping the conference championship games. Each of those games is like a playoff game, but with the conference getting both halves of the revenue, so really like 2 playoff games. Plus what they'll get for the actual playoff games. It's a LOT of money.
This is dumb, CFB is more popular than ever and will be ever bigger this season with the 12 team playoff.
You’re going to hit a tipping point where the TV crowd doesn’t outweigh the in-person tribal crowd. May not happen for 20 years but it will happen if they continue down this road to professionalism.
Agree, they are going to kill the golden goose if they aren’t careful. What makes college basketball special and separates it from the boring nba. college football has been the greatest sport, more exciting and interesting than the NFL. if you just make college football nfl lite or college basketball the cba, it’s going to lose its special place.
Don't see it. It will continue to grow and get more popular. 60ish teams in the highest division is probably the sweet spot. Things won't change much for us, when the right coach gets to together with the right talent, we'll have a shot at the playoffs, but mostly we'll stay a middling program. For some middle-lower tier teams in the Big 12/ACC, they may end up in a lower division. 2023 was one of the greatest seasons of college football I've experienced (not for the Bulldogs, but for the sport as a whole), storylines and exciting games everywhere. 2024 will be even better and it will grow from there. It may not be what we're used to, but that doesn't mean it is declining. The 12 team playoff (it will probably grow to 16 eventually) will be huge and great TV.
I know people on this board want to believe this, but it is just not true. NFL is king. In the population centers, a small percentage follows the college games compared to professional sports.
Are you really suggesting the nba is a better product than college basketball ? The nba is just flat out boring. Just some viewer #s I looked up show featured college games doubling nba numbers.
It’s 1000x better product… just like the NFL is 1000x better product than college football.
I think what @85Bears means is that college sports are special/better for a different reason.
Not even close. College Basketball is unwatchable IMO. Every time I try to watch a college game, I am sad of how bad the ability to shoot a basketball has become. I watched the battle of the MSUs and the one in Green actually wasn't terrible like the Maroon one was.
The reason that college basketball shooting has suffered is because of the shot clock and the inability to run an offense, in other words the game is becoming like the NBA...Garbage. NIL and the transfer portal are also hurting the college game, in other words it’s because it’s becoming like the NBA ....Garbage. see where I’m going with this. thats the original point, they had the greatest game and they are killing the golden goose.
College basketball is not suffering because of the shot clock. Thats ridiculous. They can’t shoot or run an offense and a lot of that comes from AAU ruining them.
You can like what you like. Billions of people love soccer/football and think it is the greatest game in the world. I don't think that. I would rather watch paint dry. So I understand you have your reasons why you prefer one sport over another. I am just pointing out that that doesn't make your opinion true for everyone.
It’s ridiculous huh ? I listened to a college coaches discussion on why scoring is down now compared to the 1980s despite there being a shot clock , It’s obviously because they can’t run an efficient offense to get a good look on that amount of time. they end up taking a poor percentage shot as the clock winds down. so the shot clock is hurting the game and lowering scoring.
I watch college sports because I care (or used to care) who wins, especially Mississippi State. I could care less about the quality of play. Within reason, obviously.
This is true. Go to a non college town or a state that has professional teams.
You're making the assumption they'd ever be able to get a good shot off with the poor fundamentals and shooting ability all over the game today. That's a very big assumption.
agree. Poor,point he was trying to make. I thought I read where scores were actually going up. But I don’t care to research it all.
I remember the days of Bob Boy and losing games 26-20. Also remember a Duke-North Carolina game where Duke was the better team. Dean Smith ran the 4-corners offense the entire first half. Halftime score was Duke - 7, UNC - 0.
If you can’t run an offense or shoot it doesn’t really matter how long the shot clock is.
Maybe if they ran their offense instead of standing still & just passing the ball around the perimeter until there are 5 seconds on the shot clock they’d get better shots.
That isn’t true at all, you run your offense to get a high percentage shot. It may take more than 24 seconds. why do we see so many possessions get to under five seconds on the shot clock and then a desperate low % heave as the shot clock expires ? That happens with very good teams. Why is the scoring totals lower now with a shot clock, which is supposed to create more scoring ? Teams scored more points in the 80s.
I’m gonna need to see some support for the last statement because that can’t possibly be true.
Why would that be hard to believe ? The shot clock has dumbed down the game, limited defense and very low IQ offense.
Scoring is down. That is a fact. But its not because of the shot clocks. It's because teams are running the shot clocks down near zero more often. Pace of play is slow, and getting slower. If we eliminate the shot clocks it's going to be even slower.
