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Originally posted by bish
Money talks much louder than common sense when it comes to the brass of the NCAA.
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Can a playoff system yield more money than the bowls do?
To get one voted in, $1M per school would need to be generated. (Sure, everyone won't be happy but a good majority would be.) That's $117M per year, plus a little bit more for inflation (though hopefully not the same inflation rate as tuition).
Will a TV network plonk down $117M per year for 7-15 games (depending on 8-16 teams) in mid-December to early January?
Right now, NBC pays Notre Dame $8-9M per year to show Notre Dame football home games (5-7 per year). CBS coughs up about $50M per year for SEC football for 15 weeks, including the SEC Title Game sponsored by Dr Pepper™.
The BCS is paying out $56M for 4 games, most of which is coming straight from Disney via ABC. Per game, that's close to the needed payout for the 7 game set (8 teams). An 11-game set (12 teams) is cheaper per game for Disney, but it means that 4 teams could have the National Championship Game as their 16th for the season, as the rules stand now. A 15- games set (16 teams) means that all 16 would be on their 16th game for the Championship, but would let itself to regional broadcasting and pay-per-view for "out-of-market" areas.
I don't know. It looks too close to call. Maybe if people would boycott the bowls, that might swing it. Given the number of state institutions, maybe people ought to be writing their state legislators. Votes do swing political opinions.