GopherTheJugular
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So you're readily admitting this is about TV ratings and your entertainment value than it is about teams actually competing on the field for championships. Just be honest.
No, but I can see why you'd think that. I was talking from a broadcast perspective. They will care about the ratings.
I'm passionate because I don't wanna see the top teams waste their time beating down weaklings while risking injury and watering down the whole process.
If paying the players results in more talent distribution where some G5 teams can actually compete, I'll change my position. But I think college football is still ending an era where it was like the NFL before free agency took hold - for like 4 years everyone knew it was gonna be the 49ers or Cowboys, etc. Before that you had other teams like the Giants, Steelers, etc. Detroit and the like were cannon fodder and so it made sense to have a smaller playoff where only a select got to compete for the championship. NOW...the NFL has a LOT more parity, so expanding the field to more teams made more sense (to me) than it does for college right now.
Yep. And football does not equal basketball. In basketball, when the smaller sized team ends up having to settle for 3's (instead of 2 points), if they can make them, that's how they get the upset. In football, the smaller team having to settle for 3's (field goals instead of touch downs) leads to the beatdowns.Never mind that part of the reason people love March Madness is the upsets.
And now that the talent is leaving the smaller schools to get paid by the majors, we shouldn't be seeing the upsets anymore, right? Which would imply people won't be as tuned in on Thursday mornings anymore because they'll kinda know how the games are gonna go, right? Eventually we will see viewership declines in March Madness because the weaklings won't win anymore...which will kinda prove my point in all this.