Playoff hurt the Regular Season?

All of a sudden the state of Alabama is going  to come together and sing Kum-ba-yah?

I am LMAO.  Not a pretty site.

Name the last time a #1 CBB team pulled all its players for a conference tourney. Yes, playoffs dont always crown the best team, but at least it is decided on the field.

Great points.  Case in point the 1985 NCAA B'ball champion was Villanova.  If I remember correctly, they barely made the tournament that year, and went on to win the entire thing.

GeauxTigerFan,

College Baseball isn't even on the radar.  Don't get me wrong, I love it.  But the audience is zilch compared to Football and even Basketball.  You don't think the NCAA Regular Basketball Season has been devalued?  I simply don't agree.

When Carolina played Duke in their last game prior to the ACC tourney Dickie Vitale and that gang were running their mouths that not even Michigan and OSU could compare to the Carolina and Duke rivalry.  Even for Vitale, this was ludicrous.  Was it important to Carolina and Duke fans....sure.  But overall it had ZERO impact at all.  Both teams were going to be no worse than a #3 seed.  Hell Duke even lost the first game of their tourney and it still didn't matter.  The NCAA regular season is as important as Spring Training is to MLB.  You only have to be good enough to get into the playoffs.   

Although I am not for it, I concede that maybe 8 team could eventually work.  But for me a much bigger issue remains how do fans afford to travel to these games when you start talking 16 or 8 games.  It is very easy to say set it up and then we will watch on TV.  How do fans travel in those numbers on that many consecutive weekends?  If you decide to let certain teams host, how are they going to handle visiting fans with only 6 days notice. Tell me any sport that has 6 days notice to set up a game with 90-100K fans and invites a significant number of visitors  The NFL doesnt because there is no such thing as visiting team fans.  Ditto for all the Pro Leagues. 

Anyway, it all pointless except for the point of arguing.  There is not going to be a playoff.  That is why I think the Barnhart suggestion is a step in the right direction.

8 or 16 game playoff.  8 take the 6 BCS champs and pick the best two non-bcs champs.  How to pick them? Have a selection committee who actually watches these teams play rather than these stupid polls.

16 - All conference champs, remaining slots for at large teams, again determined by an NCAA selection committee, not polls.

As one poster said 16 out of 120 teams is not unreasonable.  And if you're that much better than the non-BCS champs, then you should be able to strap on your helmet and kick the **** out of them like Georgia did, instead of trying to exclude because they're "unworthy."  Anything less is not a true national championship, but a private athletic club tournament.

Because in the BCS, only the top TWO teams go to the NCG and ONE loss could mean the difference. If a playoff takes the top 8 or 16 teams or if the playoff is based on conference champs, an top-ranked, undefeated UGA that has already locked up a berth in the SEC CG going into the final game of the year against GaTech could easily sit Stafford and Moreno, especially if they are a bit dinged up. I can see that scenario happening across the country.

then you run the risk of losing and dropping out of the top 8.

Because in the BCS, only the top TWO teams go to the NCG and ONE loss could mean the difference. If a playoff takes the top 8 or 16 teams or if the playoff is based on conference champs, an top-ranked, undefeated UGA that has already locked up a berth in the SEC CG going into the final game of the year against GaTech could easily sit Stafford and Moreno, especially if they are a bit dinged up. I can see that scenario happening across the country.

Your assumption is based on two things: #1). There is little parity among the top teams in the BCS, and #2). That I have made the argument that you take Conf. CG teams automatically into the BCS. 

I believe that you are making my point for me.  I think that last season, when there was IMO no clear-cut better team, that the BCS let college football fans down.  LSU was the best team using the system in place, but I am not for sure that they truly were the best team overall.  ONE loss (as you put it) didn't remove LSU from the contention, and nor should it have. 

OK? So what I comparing is:

-- why a team would NOT hold their studs out for the BCS for "only the top TWO teams go to the NCG and ONE loss could mean the difference."

-- why a team MIGHT hold their studs out for a playoff scenario because that team would already have achieved a berth in the playoff -- EITHER because its unbeaten (8 or 16 team playoff based on W-L record) or because it has already won its conference championship or has earned a berth in the conf CG.

In the first scenario (BCS), UGA would absolutely NOT hold out its studs against GaTech because ONE loss could (COULD, not WILL because in some years like 2007, a two-loss team might make it) keep UGA out of the TWO-team NCG. In the second scenario (playoff), like I said, I "could easily (UGA) sit Stafford and Moreno, especially if they are a bit dinged up."

COULD, not WILL ...

"the fact that reporters pick the CFB  champions is a black eye on sports ..."

They don't ... a SYSTEM that they are one of a number of components ranks the top teams in the land and the top TWO teams fight it out on the field to determine the CFB NC. No black eye ... just a bunch of whiney, weepy ones all across the land.

"...you dont hear nonsense from Georgia, Kansas, WVU, and USC fans ..."

"nonsense" -- that describes it best.

Georgia - Win your conference, HELL !!! win your DIVISION !!!

Kansas - Are you serious? Played one good team all year long (Mizz), LOST ... BIG !!!

WVU - PITT PITT PITT PITT PITT PITT PITT PITT PITT PITT PITT !!!

USC - STANFORD STANFORD  STANFORD  STANFORD  STANFORD  STANFORD  !!!

Any other NONSENSE requiring rebuttal ??? LOL