BCS Rejects Playoff proposal

Non-BCS teams get a small cut of the BCS pie (that they didn't have before) and the funds from their Bowl Games. They barely get an invite to the BCS party now & they know it will be all but impossible for them to get an invite to a 4 team play-off, which might kill their Bowls. Why would the vote for a play-off with no provision for more money and they may lose the only Bowl tie ins they got.

The BCS teams get a very large part of the pie (before BCS they got all of it). They are not going to vote to give that up or give themselves less money while at the same time maybe harming the Bowl System.

College Football is the engine that obtains funds so other sports can function in College. It is a product or show that is at a all time high, with more interest than ever before. All this has happened during the BCS era.... like it or not the BCS works. Heck it is May and we are talking about it!

Any fool can draw up a bracket, when and if the College Presidents actually do vote, it will be a business plan they will be voting on.
 
OK (not my personal point) but the College Presidents are thinking alone the lines that right now everyone gets the same reward after a good season --- one more game.... just one & no more.

They also are thinking that if a play off ever starts, then if your not in the play-off, your not in the game and some of the lessor Bowls will be hurt. Those are the very Bowls that the Non-BCS teams play in.

Rule # 1 right now with the Presidents is to do nothing which MIGHT harm the Bowl System. Everything is working right now, don't mess with it.
 
I would point out the every once in a while TV Sports will talk about a play off (ratings), Newspapers will talk about a play off (sell papers), every now and then a Conference Commissioner will complain about it when one on his teams gets jilted by the BCS (then the Conference Presidents reminds him not right now & it dies down).

The College Presidents have been very consistant in telling and voting on this issue. They have never waivered. They will tell anyone who will listen to them them.
1. Do no harm to the Bowl System.
2. No play offs at this time, & not anything that even looks like a play off (i.e.; like a plus one)
The College Presidents are the ones who have the vote. Conferences Commissioner, AD, Coaches they don't have a vote, they can talk all they want, but remember:

No one is in charge of College Football.
In the end it is the vote of the Presidents and they have been crystal clear in this regard.
 
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