UA1987 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 WOW is right - what a great game. Very well spoken student athletes with poise, determination and effort. Great coaching over the season. I was rooting for the Buckeyes all the way. Hard work pays off. Sure there are pimply faced Buckeye fans that are idiots and others that are mind numbing fair weather fans, which make the Bucks hard to deal with, but I have to say that was something to watch. Playoff system worked. Now Go Zips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 WOW is right - what a great game. Very well spoken student athletes with poise, determination and effort. Great coaching over the season. I was rooting for the Buckeyes all the way. Hard work pays off. Sure there are pimply faced Buckeye fans that are idiots and others that are mind numbing fair weather fans, which make the Bucks hard to deal with, but I have to say that was something to watch. Playoff system worked. Now Go Zips! I (seriously) agree, the playoff system worked for the most part and is much better than the BCS. However, try telling that to TCU. Until the playoff features 16 teams with ALL D-1A conference champions receiving an automatic bid, I will be critical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdZip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Very well spoken student athletes............"We ain't come to play school"........... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyZip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 I (seriously) agree, the playoff system worked for the most part and is much better than the BCS. However, try telling that to TCU. Until the playoff features 16 teams with ALL D-1A conference champions receiving an automatic bid, I will be critical.First off, congrats to the Buckeyes on their win. I've got to say, I was rooting for them to lose simply because with every W, the Cleveland media market grows its infatuation with OSU. While I'm not in the business of telling people who to cheer for, the last week has been pretty disgusting for me between UA athletics and their president wishing OSU "good luck" via their official twitter and Facebook accounts to stores like Rubber City Clothing selling buckeyes garbage...this game couldn't end soon enough.As far as the playoff, Trimmy hits it spot on. Division one college football is the ONLY college sport that more than 50% of teams have ZERO chance to win a championship BEFORE the season even has begun. There needs to be 12 or 16 teams included (which would still make it difficult for G5, but not 100% impossible) or another split within the ranks of FBS (I would prefer this less).Anyway...GO ZIPS! Here's to a few months of no Buckeye saturation! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 In terms of this scheme, I think OSU's win last night may have helped us with RPI points. I'm all about those. When struggling to win, get recruits, garner favorable local media attention, or have any fans in general, I'll take the RPI points all day. http://www.realtimerpi.com/college_football/ncaaf_power_rankings.htmlI think we're trending upwards. Must have been that OSU win last night. Maybe someday we'll even get to play in the Horseshoe. Though I hope the field doesn't get torn up for the B1G season.2-5 in the conference. I thought we played 8 conference games, unlike Buffalo and Can't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 2-5 in the conference. I thought we played 8 conference games, unlike Buffalo and Can't.If we kicked off both halves in a game, why can't we end an eight game conference schedule at 2-5? If only OSU media had wished us good luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K92 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Don't forget! Tomorrow is #UAPrideDay! Couldn't resist being a smart ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Don't forget! Tomorrow is #UAPrideDay! Couldn't resist being a smart ass.Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 I'm enjoying the fact that your personalized ad on the right is for OSU gear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K92 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 I'm enjoying the fact that your personalized ad on the right is for OSU gearBut of course! The advertisers are well aware of #OhioPride! They hope I am just another Akron alum that will buy into the groupthink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Are we in the National Championship?Is Akron in the playoffs?A bowl game?Until we get there and have competing interests in post season play, I don't have a problem with wishing OSU luck. I'm not rooting for Oregon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Very discouraging.OSU is our competition in each and every conceivable way.What's bad for OSU is good for Akron. What's good for OSU is bad for Akron.It's all quite simple, really. Thank You. I swear, I don't think anyone outside of those of us on this board GETS IT !! When blOSU is doing well, and all of the bandwagoners are faithfully marching in line with them, we have NO chance of gaining ground with the potential fanbase in this area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Here's to a few months of no Buckeye saturation!It will be longer than a few months. Their basketball team is out of the Top 25 and has a #56 RPI. Thus, the bandwagoners will be in hibernation until September. Thank God. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpsjugglerdude Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Ak-Rowdies should have a red out next basketball game and get everyone to wear their OSU gear. You know, for #OhioPride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Ak-Rowdies should have a red out next basketball game and get everyone to wear their OSU gear. You know, for #OhioPride.Absolutely!! We're all "Team Ohio". Lets celebrate this Championship!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GJGood Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 I (seriously) agree, the playoff system worked for the most part and is much better than the BCS. However, try telling that to TCU. Until the playoff features 16 teams with ALL D-1A conference champions receiving an automatic bid, I will be critical.Doesn't have to be 16. It can be less with byes but all ten conference champs need to be included. otherwise it still is not decided on the field. It never will be as long as you have to be chosen by someone to get in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GJGood Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 First off, congrats to the Buckeyes on their win. I've got to say, I was rooting for them to lose simply because with every W, the Cleveland media market grows its infatuation with OSU. While I'm not in the business of telling people who to cheer for, the last week has been pretty disgusting for me between UA athletics and their president wishing OSU "good luck" via their official twitter and Facebook accounts to stores like Rubber City Clothing selling buckeyes garbage...this game couldn't end soon enough.As far as the playoff, Trimmy hits it spot on. Division one college football is the ONLY college sport that more than 50% of teams have ZERO chance to win a championship BEFORE the season even has begun. There needs to be 12 or 16 teams included (which would still make it difficult for G5, but not 100% impossible) or another split within the ranks of FBS (I would prefer this less).Anyway...GO ZIPS! Here's to a few months of no Buckeye saturation!First off, congrats to the Buckeyes on their win. I've got to say, I was rooting for them to lose simply because with every W, the Cleveland media market grows its infatuation with OSU. While I'm not in the business of telling people who to cheer for, the last week has been pretty disgusting for me between UA athletics and their president wishing OSU "good luck" via their official twitter and Facebook accounts to stores like Rubber City Clothing selling buckeyes garbage...this game couldn't end soon enough.As far as the playoff, Trimmy hits it spot on. Division one college football is the ONLY college sport that more than 50% of teams have ZERO chance to win a championship BEFORE the season even has begun. There needs to be 12 or 16 teams included (which would still make it difficult for G5, but not 100% impossible) or another split within the ranks of FBS (I would prefer this less).Anyway...GO ZIPS! Here's to a few months of no Buckeye saturation!Completely agree with everything here.I actually think 14 teams, with all ten conference champions, is the ideal number for a playoff. It would allow the top two to get byes. I always liked the race for the top 2 in the BCS system. I just didn't always think they got the right two as the top two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-mann17 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 As much as I'm embarrassed by this, I'm also seeing some of our own athletes tweeting about #BuckeyeNation and stuff. Not a ton you can say when you're own players are OSU fans. Our players have teammates and friends on the OSU team. I have no problem with what they say on Twitter when we aren't playing them.The athletic department though, that was sickening, same with Akron Football Video. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Completely agree with everything here.I actually think 14 teams, with all ten conference champions, is the ideal number for a playoff. It would allow the top two to get byes. I always liked the race for the top 2 in the BCS system. I just didn't always think they got the right two as the top two.First, I am all for whatever gives us a chance as a MAC member to get involved.However.....I don't know how they would make it work. Three or Four rounds of playoffs doesn't work. And the Bowl Games aren't going away because of MONEY, so that would always have the be the initial rounds. Thus, it extends the season to the end of January and makes these kids play a damn NFL season worth of total games. It's not like basketball, where you can play games every night. The "Ain't come to play SCHOOL" would become more of a reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Ak-Rowdies should have a red out next basketball game and get everyone to wear their OSU gear. You know, for #OhioPride.A six of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckzip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Skip, serious question. Are you a democrat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 First, I am all for whatever gives us a chance as a MAC member to get involved.However.....I don't know how they would make it work. Three or Four rounds of playoffs doesn't work. And the Bowl Games aren't going away because of MONEY, so that would always have the be the initial rounds. Thus, it extends the season to the end of January and makes these kids play a damn NFL season worth of total games. It's not like basketball, where you can play games every night. The "Ain't come to play SCHOOL" would become more of a reality.The solution is simple:1) Get rid of the worthless OOC preseason schedules. Instead, allow 2 interscholastic scrimmages in the spring and 1 in August.2) Go immediately into an eight game conference season +1 championship game.3) Conference winners get placed as one of 16 teams in the 4-round single-elimination playoff.4) Major bowl games and sites are determined by tradition and rotate for the final four teams.5) All other bowl names and sponsors can be assigned to the other playoff games.6) Teams eliminated from the playoff and those not making the playoff play a total of four OOC games with RPI-matched teams from other conferences. Hence, a team losing in the second playoff round would have two additional games to play, potentially against other teams eliminated from the playoff. I mean, who wouldn't want to see FSU play 'Bama this week?7) At-large conference bids for the following year's playoff are determined by the current year's final conference RPI.8) If a playoff at-large bid is granted to a conference, the conference selects/determines the team it is sending as the representative. No national selection committees. In this regard, the B1G would have gained a lot towards next year's playoff based on this year's post-season performance.Everyone has skin in the game, no ridiculously unfair matchups, no home biasing (e.g. OSU 8 home games every year), objective, and most important for the schools, super-lucrative! This would also create a lot of conference loyalty and settle the musical chairs game that has gone on for the past fifteen years and is about to start again with the Big 12 needing to field enough football teams for a championship game to more definitively assure a team in the current playoff system. I guarantee 5 major conferences and only 4 playoff spots will not last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-mann17 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 First, I am all for whatever gives us a chance as a MAC member to get involved.However.....I don't know how they would make it work. Three or Four rounds of playoffs doesn't work. And the Bowl Games aren't going away because of MONEY, so that would always have the be the initial rounds. Thus, it extends the season to the end of January and makes these kids play a damn NFL season worth of total games. It's not like basketball, where you can play games every night. The "Ain't come to play SCHOOL" would become more of a reality.FCS has 5 rounds of playoff games and the same length of schedule.For 1-A you pair down to 12 conferences, reduce to 11 games, best two teams in each conference play a championship (game 12 of the season), Seed the 12 winners by SOS, Top 4 teams get byes, the other 8 play. It's actually a 6 round, 24 team playoff, finishing by week. Most games played in a season would be 16. Any bowls that want to remain can pick from the 12 conference runners up, use the prestige bowls for the playoff locations. Everyone is happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 The solution is simple:1) Get rid of the worthless OOC preseason schedules. Instead, allow 2 interscholastic scrimmages in the spring and 1 in August.2) Go immediately into an eight game conference season +1 championship game.Try telling Texas and OSU that they get 3 less home games worth of revenue a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Try telling Texas and OSU that they get 3 less home games worth of revenue a yearCome to think of it, maybe you're actually on to a possible solution to create more parity. Less opportunities for the "larger programs" to stockpile money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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