Mark Cuban to try to fund/create BCS alternative

[Banedon]

Cuban, the outspoken owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, told ESPNDallas.com on Wednesday that he is "actively interested but in the exploratory stage" of creating and funding a playoff system to crown a champion for major college football.

 

"Put $500 million in the bank and go to all the schools and pay them money as an option," Cuban said. "Say, 'Look, I'm going to give you X amount every five years. In exchange, you say if you're picked for the playoff system, you'll go.' "

 

"It's an inefficient business where there's obviously a better way of doing it," Cuban said. "The only thing that's kept them from doing it is a lack of capital, which I can deal with.

 

"The one thing every college football fan wants you can probably create for less than it takes to buy a baseball team."

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=5924399

[shnsajax]

I love Mark Cuban!

[jersey cubs fan]

If/when it happens I just hope to hell it's not something stupid like 16 teams or all conference champs are invited. 4 is plenty, but if you need 6 or 8 it's marginally acceptable.

[Banedon]

If/when it happens I just hope to hell it's not something stupid like 16 teams or all conference champs are invited. 4 is plenty, but if you need 6 or 8 it's marginally acceptable.

 

Not sure if you read the article, but this was part of it...

 

Cuban said he envisions either a 12- or 16-team playoff field with the higher seeds getting homefield advantage. The homefield advantage, Cuban said, would ensure the college football regular-season games would not lose any importance.

 

The bowl games could still exist under Cuban's plan, but he said he would make it more profitable for programs to make the playoffs than a bowl.

[jersey cubs fan]

that is a terrible idea

[Flames24Rulz]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

[shnsajax]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

 

I think 4 is more than enough, but if it takes 16 to get rid of the BCS I am fine with that. They do 16 in 1AA and it doesn't seem to be any issue.

[jersey cubs fan]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

 

It's just stupid. The 8th best team in the country has no reason to be in a playoff for the national championship, the 16th clearly does not. Winners of crap conferences should not get free rides into the playoffs either. It is going to be an additional 4 games for the finalists, which is a legitimate concern for the NCAA to be against it.

 

The stupid NCAA basketball tournament does nothing but produce a bunch of whining babies thinking they got screwed out of the 65th spot, and the same thing is going to happen here. Cap it at 8 at the most, but 4 would be ideal. The regular season produces the 4 best teams.

[jersey cubs fan]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

 

I think 4 is more than enough, but if it takes 16 to get rid of the BCS I am fine with that. They do 16 in 1AA and it doesn't seem to be any issue.

 

that's because nobody gives a crap about IAA in the first place.

[shnsajax]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

 

I think 4 is more than enough, but if it takes 16 to get rid of the BCS I am fine with that. They do 16 in 1AA and it doesn't seem to be any issue.

 

that's because nobody gives a crap about IAA in the first place.

 

I was more talking about the schools and players playing extra games.

[rawaction]

12-16 is way too much. I agree 8 is the max acceptable, and probably my preference. This year if you have 16 teams, you'd have Alabama in the tourney. They are a 3-loss team. But they also have championship experience and is a team that I could easily see winning a tournament style playoff.

 

Best solution is to keep the BCS and the same requirements for entry to make everyone happy.

 

Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, and Orange all host 1st round tourney games. Rotate which 2 get the semifinal games. Rotate the 1 that gets the title game.

[Guest]

They play a 12 game schedule with little connectivity, of course it's possible if not likely that someone ranked anywhere from 8th to 16th could win the games and stake a legitimate claim at a National Title.

 

16 teams would be awesome.

[jersey cubs fan]

conference championship games will be a farce. In the past, a team like Auburn would suffer if they lost the SEC championship, not in a 16 team tourny. 4 and 5 loss teams will get in with regularity. Teams that would finish 2-10 in a real conference will get in.

[shnsajax]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

 

It's just stupid. The 8th best team in the country has no reason to be in a playoff for the national championship, the 16th clearly does not. Winners of crap conferences should not get free rides into the playoffs either. It is going to be an additional 4 games for the finalists, which is a legitimate concern for the NCAA to be against it.

 

The stupid NCAA basketball tournament does nothing but produce a bunch of whining babies thinking they got screwed out of the 65th spot, and the same thing is going to happen here. Cap it at 8 at the most, but 4 would be ideal. The regular season produces the 4 best teams.

 

This is where I agree, a 2 or 3 loss team has not need to be in a playoff. This year having Oregon v Wisconsin and Auburn v TCU in the semi's would have been great. Stanford and Ohio State could make a claim too, but thats about it.

[rawaction]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

 

It's just stupid. The 8th best team in the country has no reason to be in a playoff for the national championship, the 16th clearly does not. Winners of crap conferences should not get free rides into the playoffs either. It is going to be an additional 4 games for the finalists, which is a legitimate concern for the NCAA to be against it.

 

The stupid NCAA basketball tournament does nothing but produce a bunch of whining babies thinking they got screwed out of the 65th spot, and the same thing is going to happen here. Cap it at 8 at the most, but 4 would be ideal. The regular season produces the 4 best teams.

 

Still would have arguments. Does Wisconsin, TCU or Stanford get left out this year? Right now Wisconsin is 5 in the BCS, but ranked ahead of Stanford in every poll. If you don't have the BCS, Stanford loses out despite their 1 loss coming to one of the top 2 teams, while Wisconsin lost to a team that's not even in the conversation.

[Guest]

conference championship games will be a farce. In the past, a team like Auburn would suffer if they lost the SEC championship, not in a 16 team tourny. 4 and 5 loss teams will get in with regularity. Teams that would finish 2-10 in a real conference will get in.

 

This year there is 1 team with more than 2 losses in the Top 16 of the BCS, and it's Alabama.

[shnsajax]

12-16 is way too much. I agree 8 is the max acceptable, and probably my preference. This year if you have 16 teams, you'd have Alabama in the tourney. They are a 3-loss team. But they also have championship experience and is a team that I could easily see winning a tournament style playoff.

 

Best solution is to keep the BCS and the same requirements for entry to make everyone happy.

 

Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, and Orange all host 1st round tourney games. Rotate which 2 get the semifinal games. Rotate the 1 that gets the title game.

 

This is exactly what I have been calling for.

[Banedon]

conference championship games will be a farce. In the past, a team like Auburn would suffer if they lost the SEC championship, not in a 16 team tourny. 4 and 5 loss teams will get in with regularity. Teams that would finish 2-10 in a real conference will get in.

 

Then they'll lose, and you won't have to worry about them being in a national championship game. Or they'll win, and refute that argument.

[SouthSideRyan]

12-16 is way too much. I agree 8 is the max acceptable, and probably my preference. This year if you have 16 teams, you'd have Alabama in the tourney. They are a 3-loss team. But they also have championship experience and is a team that I could easily see winning a tournament style playoff.

 

Best solution is to keep the BCS and the same requirements for entry to make everyone happy.

 

Sugar, Rose, Fiesta, and Orange all host 1st round tourney games. Rotate which 2 get the semifinal games. Rotate the 1 that gets the title game.

 

This is exactly what I have been calling for.

 

And everyone else who's ever talked about it.

 

MAKE THE BOWL GAMES THE SITES OF THE TOURNEY is college football's, "Just legalize it and tax the hell out of it!!"

[jersey cubs fan]

that is a terrible idea

 

How so?

 

It's just stupid. The 8th best team in the country has no reason to be in a playoff for the national championship, the 16th clearly does not. Winners of crap conferences should not get free rides into the playoffs either. It is going to be an additional 4 games for the finalists, which is a legitimate concern for the NCAA to be against it.

 

The stupid NCAA basketball tournament does nothing but produce a bunch of whining babies thinking they got screwed out of the 65th spot, and the same thing is going to happen here. Cap it at 8 at the most, but 4 would be ideal. The regular season produces the 4 best teams.

 

Still would have arguments. Does Wisconsin, TCU or Stanford get left out this year? Right now Wisconsin is 5 in the BCS, but ranked ahead of Stanford in every poll. If you don't have the BCS, Stanford loses out despite their 1 loss coming to one of the top 2 teams, while Wisconsin lost to a team that's not even in the conversation.

 

Either way, but at least they are meaningful thoughts and not petty nonsense about the 17th team crying about being screwed over. In reality, however, there will be unranked teams getting in because of winning their conference championship.

 

It will destroy the incredible excitement that occurs when a #1 team falls during the regular season or when an undefeated team struggles to hold on.

[Banedon]

Still would have arguments. Does Wisconsin, TCU or Stanford get left out this year? Right now Wisconsin is 5 in the BCS, but ranked ahead of Stanford in every poll. If you don't have the BCS, Stanford loses out despite their 1 loss coming to one of the top 2 teams, while Wisconsin lost to a team that's not even in the conversation.

 

Well of course. Every sports has arguments about teams that just miss. NCAA basketball does. There's whining in the NFL about an NFC West team getting in. It's just the nature of sports. This way though, you remove a lot of the polling from the process. Not completely of course, but if the TCU's and Boise State's of the world really can't compete, they'll be out in the first round, and we'll be down to a real 8 team tourney after that, with real contenders.

[jersey cubs fan]

conference championship games will be a farce. In the past, a team like Auburn would suffer if they lost the SEC championship, not in a 16 team tourny. 4 and 5 loss teams will get in with regularity. Teams that would finish 2-10 in a real conference will get in.

 

This year there is 1 team with more than 2 losses in the Top 16 of the BCS, and it's Alabama.

 

It won't just be top 16 BCS teams.

And 2 losses is too many.

[jersey cubs fan]

conference championship games will be a farce. In the past, a team like Auburn would suffer if they lost the SEC championship, not in a 16 team tourny. 4 and 5 loss teams will get in with regularity. Teams that would finish 2-10 in a real conference will get in.

 

Then they'll lose, and you won't have to worry about them being in a national championship game. Or they'll win, and refute that argument.

 

They will lose boring and pointless games that nobody but the fans of the favorite want to watch.

[SouthSideRyan]

"Put $500 million in the bank and go to all the schools and pay them money as an option," Cuban said. "Say, 'Look, I'm going to give you X amount every five years. In exchange, you say if you're picked for the playoff system, you'll go.' "

 

Pay ALL the schools?? So you're saying I can get 4 million dollars every 5 years in exchange for a guarantee that I'll go to your playoff? SIGN ME UP

[Guest]

conference championship games will be a farce. In the past, a team like Auburn would suffer if they lost the SEC championship, not in a 16 team tourny. 4 and 5 loss teams will get in with regularity. Teams that would finish 2-10 in a real conference will get in.

 

This year there is 1 team with more than 2 losses in the Top 16 of the BCS, and it's Alabama.

 

It won't just be top 16 BCS teams.

And 2 losses is too many.

 

That's a different argument than "more than 8 teams is stupid".

 

And 2 losses is too many? It's a 12 game season, and we're talking about the right to play your way into a title game.