Spin Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Want to eliminate the easy path? Play a balanced schedule. 6 home, 6 away games for every school. Hawaii can have 7 home and 6 away and any team that plays them can schedule an extra home or away. This forces BCS teams to travel to smaller schools, and it hurts their massive money-making disadvantage. I don't understand why 8-home game schedules are even allowed. Want to drive the big schools out of the NCAA and have them start their own league? That is exactly what would happen if they did this. I don't want to "hurt" any school for spending years being successful. There is an old saying that if you took all of the money in the world and divided it equally, at some point, the rich would figure out how to be rich again. If you divided all of the schedules equally, the non-BCS schools would find a way to screw it up and the big schools would still have a money advantage. I remember when Ohio State agreed to play at San Diego State. That spring, San Diego State announced the game would be played in Columbus, Ohio because they could make more money there as the away team than they could off their entire home schedule. Why do you think the Ohio MAC teams take turns going there? Here's a hint: it aint because they think they can win. Schools like tOSU make a bundle with their home games, but they make the small school's budget a lot bigger too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RACER Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 teams like osu can have 8 home games because schools like akron need the money to keep the football programs alive.osu makes enough $ on football to pay for all the other non revenue sports at osu.akron football loses money every year.the bottom line the mac will never compete week in week out with the bcs schools.the mac fans hang thier heads on the two or three occ wins a year.they bring up those games every time to point out how the mac can compete with the big schools.they leave out the 30 beatdowns they take every year from bcs schools.when cmu had big dan they were the so called class of the mac.in his carrer at cmu clemson beat them 70-0,and the lost to a 1-aa team one season.i saw them play georgia and get destroyed the next year 52-7.cmu fans forget those games.they will tell you the win over msu though about 100 x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Adams Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 It will never happen but if the OSU's,Alabamas etc get 'penalized' for scheduling cupcakes. They would stop. If the 'wins' against the Akrons,Can't State's etc did not 'count' as far as the BS er BCS is concerned the big boys would have to stop playing them. If you are in a BCS conference lets say you get to play 1 game a year with a non-BCS team. Everything else has to be with BCS schools. More than 1 and you get eliminated from possible BCS bowl appearance. It raises the level of competition among BCS schools. You could play a tougher schedule,maybe lose a game or 2 and still get into the BCS bowl picture. Or assign conferences to play each other on a rotating basis. The Big 10 and Big 12 have to play each other this year,the Big Ten and PAC 12 have to play each other another year.. How do you decide what teams from each conference play each other? They can figure it out. The current system is so screwed up until there is a playoff who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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