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A Certain Houstonian retweeted
Average viewership down 11% overall viewership is actually up
The talent spreading out means more games are being watched by people not just a select few
A Certain Houstonian retweeted
The old bowl system did not provide broad championship access. It provided broad postseason validation. It allowed a large number of programs — not five or six, not 12, but 30-plus in a given year — to plausibly end the season believing they had accomplished something meaningful.
The modern playoff system has taken much of that meaning and concentrated it into one event.
So when I say the postseason format needs some reasonable relationship to the size of the group actually investing and trying to matter, I do not mean the old system was a clean title-access machine. It obviously was not. I mean the old system had enough meaningful postseason outcomes to support the number of programs trying to define themselves as successful.
Now that the playoff has swallowed so much of that meaning, playoff access has to carry more of the burden.
You cannot devalue the bowls, weaken conference-title games, centralize the entire sport around the CFP, and then tell 30 or 40 serious programs that 12 spots is enough because the rest of the postseason technically still exists while simultaneously telling them making a bowl doesn’t matter.
CFP leaders are closer than ever to expanding to a 24-team playoff. They are talking buyouts of conference title games and scheduling logistics of doubling the field.
Foregone conclusion?
“If we can get a decent (TV) deal, we are definitely going to 24.”
bit.ly/4jv642P
A Certain Houstonian retweeted
Typical.
Two SEC teams play.
Winning team moves up 14.
Losing team only falls six.
Net gain of 8.
Two ACC teams play.
Winning team moves into “others receiving votes”
Losing teams moves right behind them in “others receiving votes”.
Net loss of 14.
A Certain Houstonian retweeted
Just because there are small markets who find a way to win or big markets who spend poorly and lose doesn’t mean that MLB should operate in a way that provides a major advantage to some teams and allows them to make up for mistakes in a way others can’t.
Oh no 😱
If only the MLB players were completely guaranteed every dollar in their contract no matter their performance.
Now they get to sit at home an get paid, the horror 😱
A Certain Houstonian retweeted
Here a better idea, we get back to doing college athletics which is meant to be BIG and diverse with schools from all across America both large and small instead of trying to monopolize college athletics and turn it into some bastardized NFL junior league
SAVE COLLEGE ATHLETICS
A Certain Houstonian retweeted
We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.
We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.
A Certain Houstonian retweeted
The thing about Pate, who I very much like and respect. He's still ultimately an SEC guy who grew up watching SEC football.
He's never had to experience watching his team get screwed over by biased playoff committees or AP voters (maybe he thinks he has, but he hasn't)
He's never experienced watching his favorite annual rivalry games be canceled due to realignment (the core of the SEC has stayed together for 100+ years)
He's never had to wonder if his favorite team will be relegated to a G5 despite decades of of history and elite fan support because the media doesn't consider you or your conference as "worthy"
He's never wondered what might happen to the college town (and the people) he loves if the main economic engine gets kneecaped in the name of TV revenue.
It's like if you've never seen or experienced tragedy in your life.
You might think you know what it looks like (you don't)
You might think you can understand how it feels (you can't)
If you're watching events unfold from a safe distance, even if you don't like or agree with the events that are unfolding but the part of you that feels safe enough to not worry about it will find ways to justify it.
