CBS Poll: Majority of ADs polled expect CFB playoff to expand by 2023

[BleedGopher]

per CBS:

An informal CBSSports.com poll of 27 FBS-level athletic directors reveals 15 of them -- or 55.5 percent -- believe the playoff will expand to eight teams at some point in the next 10 years.

Ten of the athletic directors say the playoff will remain at four after 2023, and two said they didn't have a definitive opinion on the matter.

With ESPN's deal stretching to the 2025 regular season (after 2026 bowl games), an expansion before that year would force a pricey contract restructure.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...rity-ads-expect-cfb-playoff-to-expand-by-2023

Go Gophers!!

 

[highwayman]

Wow, that's like saying it will rain in the next 10 years.

 

[Deleted_User]

My sump pump has been running a lot this morning.

 

[Tater]

Anyone remember when the year 2023 seemed like a time so far off in the future that we'd be flying around in spaceships?

 

[imthewalrus]

per CBS:

An informal CBSSports.com poll of 27 FBS-level athletic directors reveals 15 of them -- or 55.5 percent -- believe the playoff will expand to eight teams at some point in the next 10 years.

Ten of the athletic directors say the playoff will remain at four after 2023, and two said they didn't have a definitive opinion on the matter.

With ESPN's deal stretching to the 2025 regular season (after 2026 bowl games), an expansion before that year would force a pricey contract restructure.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...rity-ads-expect-cfb-playoff-to-expand-by-2023

Go Gophers!!

Heavens only knows just how much the greedy coaches will be taking off the top if that happens. And, the athletic directors will be stealing outrageous salaries and bonus checks. The tv and cable companies will be living high on the hog. The gambling interests will be raking in billions with an expanded play off system for a college football expanded national championship play off system. The arms race for facilities will really ramp up. TV analysts, sideline babes, former jocks and all the blow-dry local sports dudes and dudettes will benefit during December/January football madness season.

But, unless the players get their union up and going...and/or extract some major concessions for the "student athletes" in the form of better health coverage that extends pretty well past their college playing days just in case concussive syndrome raises it's ugly head at some point in time from the NCAA Football czars and gods they will be really taken for suckers, fools and common minimum wage slobs.

The NCAA and the college coaches and the college athletic directors and the gamblers and the cable companies are all going to milk this cash cow for ALL they can get out of it. They are in it for the money and they are each in it for themselves. The college student athletes had better "wise-up" and go get theirs too! Come on college student athletes. Your coach and the athletic director are NOT out there to "...get some for the Gipper..." It's time for the student athletes to look out for NUMBER ONE themselves.

This is ALL about money. That is the ONLY thing that matters to the coaches, the athletic directors, the gambling industry, the cable/tv industry and everyone else who can take their cut. Don't be suckered into letting all those people get what you have coming student athletes. Just DO it!

 

[GophersInIowa]

Anyone remember when the year 2023 seemed like a time so far off in the future that we'd be flying around in spaceships?

Well we're only a year and half away from flying cars and hoverboards. Back to the Future II is proof of it.

 

[maroonedinCA]

Heavens only knows just how much the greedy coaches will be taking off the top if that happens. And, the athletic directors will be stealing outrageous salaries and bonus checks. The tv and cable companies will be living high on the hog. The gambling interests will be raking in billions with an expanded play off system for a college football expanded national championship play off system. The arms race for facilities will really ramp up. TV analysts, sideline babes, former jocks and all the blow-dry local sports dudes and dudettes will benefit during December/January football madness season.

But, unless the players get their union up and going...and/or extract some major concessions for the "student athletes" in the form of better health coverage that extends pretty well past their college playing days just in case concussive syndrome raises it's ugly head at some point in time from the NCAA Football czars and gods they will be really taken for suckers, fools and common minimum wage slobs.

The NCAA and the college coaches and the college athletic directors and the gamblers and the cable companies are all going to milk this cash cow for ALL they can get out of it. They are in it for the money and they are each in it for themselves. The college student athletes had better "wise-up" and go get theirs too! Come on college student athletes. Your coach and the athletic director are NOT out there to "...get some for the Gipper..." It's time for the student athletes to look out for NUMBER ONE themselves.

This is ALL about money. That is the ONLY thing that matters to the coaches, the athletic directors, the gambling industry, the cable/tv industry and everyone else who can take their cut. Don't be suckered into letting all those people get what you have coming student athletes. Just DO it!

I agree with everything you just wrote with the exception of lumping the gambling industry into all of the bloodsuckers. First, they don't drive any policy for the obvious reason that the NCAA wouldn't allow them to do so. Second, they have nothing to gain or lose should players become compensated. The popularity of the sport won't decline (despite what doomsdayers say to the contrary) and thus it'll be status quo from their perspective. Even if schools contract their football programs that still leaves plenty of power programs to draw a huge interest. Hell, the NFL gets by with 32, the NCAA would still be a huge draw with 60 or so teams. They've got no dog in this fight and even if they did I don't actually believe they could wield the power necessary to dictate policy to an organization (NCAA) who tries so diligently to distance themselves from that industry.

 

[imthewalrus]

I agree with everything you just wrote with the exception of lumping the gambling industry into all of the bloodsuckers. First, they don't drive any policy for the obvious reason that the NCAA wouldn't allow them to do so. Second, they have nothing to gain or lose should players become compensated. The popularity of the sport won't decline (despite what doomsdayers say to the contrary) and thus it'll be status quo from their perspective. Even if schools contract their football programs that still leaves plenty of power programs to draw a huge interest. Hell, the NFL gets by with 32, the NCAA would still be a huge draw with 60 or so teams. They've got no dog in this fight and even if they did I don't actually believe they could wield the power necessary to dictate policy to an organization (NCAA) who tries so diligently to distance themselves from that industry.

You seriously don't comprehend that STRONG tie between the gambling industry and the NCAA Play Off Series? I am certain that the MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENT brings huge business to Vegas Establishments that openly make book on the college games. Certainly you can see how that makes the people who wager on the FINAL FOUR captivated and rabid tv fans of the college play-offs. How many people are interested in that tournament only because they paid their five or ten or twenty bucks to fill out the office brackets on that college game.

Some people watch the games because they love to watch the games. Others attend parties for the socializing that the Final Four gives them. Some love it because it is an excuse to drink. Still others love March Madness because of all the gambling action it provides.

The relationship between the NCAA and the gambling industry is a "wink, wink" kind of thing. For the gambling industry, college basketball and college football provides a very nice and attractive schedule of gambling events for the suckers to lay their money down on. For the NCAA, the gambling industry provides odds on the games, helps keep interest in the games very high, even with people who have no relationship to the individual colleges involved in the game. "...A game is a game is a game to an individual who really is deeply involved with the gaming industry..." Vegas and the NCAA are really joined at the hip even though the NCAA will attempt to deny it with a somewhat straight face.

Casual gamblers all the way up to addicted gamblers love to lay their money down on football games that are played on Game Day Saturday all over the nation. The NCAA basketball and football Seasons provide gainful employment and financial opportunities for the book makers. The college games always have been very profitable for the sports gambling dens.