Comments about ‘MWC proposes BCS tournament’

Well the BCS will surely ignore the proposal. Let me try and capture the essence of the response.

"We appreciate the Mountain West Conference's initiative. However, the system currently in place has been proven to be the most viable and feasible process to determine the college football national champion..."

At the very least this will get things moving. I appreciate the initiative.

AMEN! The current system is unfair. I have heard how a playoff is not possible in Div I football because of finals and the student athletes. What other reasons are out there?

The fact is that Div I football is the only major NCAA sport that does not have a playoff. Div II football has a playoff. Basketball, baseball, wrestling,...etc. Yep, they all have a playoff. They all advance by winning, or go home by losing.

But in Div I football, you can be Utah with a perfect record, beating nationally ranked teams, and still be sent home, uninvited to the possibility of a national championship.

I have also heard that we should not concern ourselves with this issue when so many other issues are facing our country. I completely disagree: college football is a multi-million dollar business (think hundreds of millions, or more?). Why would we sit and allow a huge business to unabashedly discriminate against a large portion of our country, and create an unfair system that does not allow great teams to go as far as possible, and even to rise to the top? Doesn't America stand for opportunity and fairness!?

to determine that national champions. What a novel idea. Someone should have thought of this a long time ago.

Call me crazy, but let's do it!!!

Because in an eight team format, it will be easy for the system to ignore the MWC champion.

Give us a playoff with the eleven Div I conference champions and the next five highest ranked teams as wildcards. This would add one extra week to the playoff season.

This format would have give the MWC two entries this year-with both Utah and TCU.

A true playoff will include all conference champions and give us the closest thing to March Madness.

Great plan and I hope it works to get dialog and push ESPN to delay a contract.

Otherwise, I would hope the MWC would invite all other conferences to a playoff system. Many fans would watch those games and the current BCS conference teams may find out how many fans they do not have.

This is likely the best idea Craig Thompson has had for the MWC.

Anything termed "play-off" has got to be loads better than the current system. A chance to win the National Championship by play-off is tons better than absolutely no chance if you stick with the BCS.

Go Shurtleff, full court press on the anti-trust and get Congress and President Obama to support you.

What's the point in having a "BCS" game matching up number 9 and 10 just for the sake of having the game? Let all of that fall within the way the bowls are now.

The proposal is rather odd. Where the MWC would have support and strength would be to stand for all of the FBS members. I don't see that in here. I see a lot of stuff that the BCS isn't going to care for. They would probably be okay with the playoff, but messing around with AQ isn't foing to fly.

Taking the selection process away from the bowls is good, but again, the bowls will want to pick.

In a way, I am surprised the MWC has stuck their neck out on this. Then WAC members caved in 96 when BYU wasn't selected. 2001, same story. They went along with the flow when Cowen and Tulane took this on. Now they want to be AQ???? Why do they get the nads now to take this on? Best of luck, but I see this as a pretty unnattractive proposal from the BCS point of view, and it really doesn't help all of the FBS.

I was looking at an interesting poll from ESPN asking if the MWC football champ should automatically be in a BCS game. It showed voting state by state. There wasn't one state east of the Mississippi that thought the MWC champ should qualify for a BCS game. What I'm thinking is that not many BCS powers that be are going to listen to Craig Thompson and Mtn. West officials. Better to try and fail than not to try at all, but we need some powerful allies. Schools like Texas and others that were ignored for a national championship need to be coerced into seeking a fair playoff system. The Mtn. West needs some powerful big brothers.

Solution for automatically qualifying BCS conferences: Agree to this short-sighted proposal, and then only schedule interconference games against the other automatic conferences. The non-BCS conferences will never attain the required 20 games in two years and will, again, be ineligible and left without access to the championship.

The MWC president missed his moon shot. Too narrow and MWC-oriented, as Dano rightly pointed out. Nice that SOMETHING is being done, but I doubt until the government or lawyers get involved the BCS elite will be budged.

Sooo...we will still have a selection committee deciding who plays and who stays. Sounds a lot like the good old boys network we have now...except that the MWC champ could play Boise State in the bowl that doesn't really count.
Conference champions from qualifying conferences should be matched up in a play off...and have a chance to earn a championship on the field from start to finish, not just in the BCS brackets selected by a committee.

question:what exactly would the point be of the fifth game. and also, would it still just take conference champions so teams like, for example, this years texas would still get screwed over? this proposal still needs to have some changes made to it.

I think if you are to be national champs, the least you should be is conference champs. If you can't win your conference, then you shouldn't be NC. I like the 11 and 5 scenario if you want to keep the conferences the way they are. If not, rearrange teams into 16 conferences similar to NFL and play 6 conf games and 5 Non conf games. And move on with the playoff.

Sounds a lot better than what we got right now

The current system is corrupt...let's be honest. There are really only about 10 teams in the country that can possibly win a National Championship. The rest of the teams in their conference are shut-up by the amount of money they're given. The other teams are institutions that enable the powers to be to remain in power.

Please someone, somehow put an end to this nonsense and corrupt behavior.

However, does anyone really have confidence in Thompson that he's the man for the job?

is a none starter. Conferences are loaded with traditional rivals that would object to being split up and conference membership sometimes varies according to the sport. The Big East, for example, has 16 basketball teams, including Notre Dame, but only 8 football teams.

Would Wyoming, Colorado State, TCU and Air Force want to be dumped into the Big 12?

Would BYU and Utah want to be dumped into a conference of WAC leftovers after the San Diego State, Fresno State, San Jose State, Hawaii, UNLV and Nevada were added to the PAC 10?