Because if the format is expanded, the two conferences controlling the CFP will demand most of that expansion goes to them. Make the CFP bigger than the two schools winning teams and they will not be able to exert that force. Really, a higher authority, like the NCAA, should be controlling this, like the commissioner of the NFL does its …
Because if the format is expanded, the two conferences controlling the CFP will demand most of that expansion goes to them. Make the CFP bigger than the two schools winning teams and they will not be able to exert that force. Really, a higher authority, like the NCAA, should be controlling this, like the commissioner of the NFL does its rules. Someone needs to be unbiased to make the right decisions for everyone, not just a handful of randomly selected and self appointed "top schools". I like free markets, but college sports are more than a free market. Universities are not independent businesses. Most are public owned.
Yet, most public universities look out for their own self interest in a variety of endeavors rather than participate in a kumbaya equity vision designed to make less fortunate feel better about themselves. The right decisions for everyone can lead to mediocracy in total.
I completely agree. Semi-pro football and basketball do not belong embedded in a university, especially a public school with its inherent "selfish" interests that are completely unaligned with sports. Spin out revenue sports as just a long term, privately held, business interest. This is done all the time with businesses born of a university's IP coming from research done by faculty. The IP is licensed to a business startup with possibly some equity investment from the university's investment fund. As the business develops, the university is rewarded. No reason sports can't operate in the same way with the "tradition" of the university the IP and the school's alumni, students and faculty a great built-in customer base.
It wasn't that many years ago that there was actually discussion of whether UO and OSU should have a single combined athletics program because it was the perception that neither would ever be "competitive" on their own. We coulda had the Monroe Long Branch Platypus?
Because if the format is expanded, the two conferences controlling the CFP will demand most of that expansion goes to them. Make the CFP bigger than the two schools winning teams and they will not be able to exert that force. Really, a higher authority, like the NCAA, should be controlling this, like the commissioner of the NFL does its rules. Someone needs to be unbiased to make the right decisions for everyone, not just a handful of randomly selected and self appointed "top schools". I like free markets, but college sports are more than a free market. Universities are not independent businesses. Most are public owned.
Yet, most public universities look out for their own self interest in a variety of endeavors rather than participate in a kumbaya equity vision designed to make less fortunate feel better about themselves. The right decisions for everyone can lead to mediocracy in total.
I completely agree. Semi-pro football and basketball do not belong embedded in a university, especially a public school with its inherent "selfish" interests that are completely unaligned with sports. Spin out revenue sports as just a long term, privately held, business interest. This is done all the time with businesses born of a university's IP coming from research done by faculty. The IP is licensed to a business startup with possibly some equity investment from the university's investment fund. As the business develops, the university is rewarded. No reason sports can't operate in the same way with the "tradition" of the university the IP and the school's alumni, students and faculty a great built-in customer base.
It wasn't that many years ago that there was actually discussion of whether UO and OSU should have a single combined athletics program because it was the perception that neither would ever be "competitive" on their own. We coulda had the Monroe Long Branch Platypus?